[arch-general] Updated kernel - 2nd issue - compiz whitescreens (radeon driver)

2010-07-10 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, One other issue I am having with the box after the kernel update is that compiz whitescreens now. (that usually means a driver wasn't recompiled, but this is with the stock xf86-video-ati package). Compiz starts just fine, I get the splash screen, but everything is white. I have had that

[arch-general] Updated kernel to 34.1 on x86-64 laptop, won't boot, stuck "Setting Console to UTF-8 Mode" ??

2010-07-10 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, I need help recovering from a failure to boot. I updated the kernel to kernel26-2.6.34.1-1 and booted once without issue. I then just configured kdemod3 a bit and went to reboot and now the boot process sticks at the message: "Setting Console to UTF-8 Mode" Huh? I tried the f

Re: [arch-general] nVidia MCP79

2010-07-10 Thread Rafael Beraldo
2010/7/10 bardo > 2010/7/10 Rafael Beraldo : > > I just tested the microphone in Audacity (I think it uses ALSA, doesn't > > it?). It works pretty well! > > It uses what it's told to, I don't remember what the default is as I > change it pretty frequently. Check the input source preferences. > >

Re: [arch-general] nVidia MCP79

2010-07-10 Thread bardo
2010/7/10 Rafael Beraldo : > I just tested the microphone in Audacity (I think it uses ALSA, doesn't > it?). It works pretty well! It uses what it's told to, I don't remember what the default is as I change it pretty frequently. Check the input source preferences. > I'm sorry I'm not used to mail

Re: [arch-general] nVidia MCP79

2010-07-10 Thread Rafael Beraldo
2010/7/10 bardo > > So this doesn't seem to be a kernel problem... As far as I know Skype > uses OSS (or, rather, ALSA's OSS emulation). You could try different > drivers in your media player and understand if the problem lies here. I just tested the microphone in Audacity (I think it uses ALSA,

Re: [arch-general] nVidia MCP79

2010-07-10 Thread bardo
2010/7/10 Rafael Beraldo : > In my old laptop, every time I blew the (parallel) microphone, it could hear > it. It doesn't happen with my 1201N and then I assumed that the mic wasn't > working at all. For some reason, however, I tested it yesterday on Skype > test call and --- surprisingly --- it w

[arch-general] wodim permissions

2010-07-10 Thread Dan Martins
Hi, Today I found that I need to add the +s flag to /usr/bin/wodim to be able to burn CDs. In the past I did not think this was the case. I have hal running still and my user is a member of the optical group. I last updated this morning. I'm running testing on x86_64 in case that makes a dif

Re: [arch-general] nVidia MCP79

2010-07-10 Thread Rafael Beraldo
Hello Corrado. In my old laptop, every time I blew the (parallel) microphone, it could hear it. It doesn't happen with my 1201N and then I assumed that the mic wasn't working at all. For some reason, however, I tested it yesterday on Skype test call and --- surprisingly --- it worked. So this is i

Re: [arch-general] nVidia MCP79

2010-07-10 Thread bardo
2010/7/9 Rafael Beraldo : > Hi, > > I bought a Asus 1201N and installed Arch on it. Sound (a nVidia MCP79) works > but I think sound is too low. I've set everything in alsamixer to 100% and > even with a headphone it is still low. Although I can hear it well, I think > this netbook can amplificate

Re: [arch-general] i915 Module Problem

2010-07-10 Thread cantabile
On 07/09/2010 04:22 PM, Xiaochen Gao wrote: Dear All, Sorry for the spam. I am new to this list and I'm fairly new to Arch Linux. I encountered a problem when I tried to install and use Arch Linux 2010.05. It seems to be: if modules auto-load is set to yes or I manually set i915 to load in rc.c

Re: [arch-general] Rsync not handling spaces in directory names

2010-07-10 Thread Jordan Windsor
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Jordan Windsor wrote: >> I'm unable to get rsync to handle a particular directory which >> contains spaces within its name. >> Here's the command I run and the output: >> >> [jor...@archpc Program Files]$