[arch-general] [signoff] mdadm-3.1.4-1

2010-08-31 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Two fixes related to configs that aren't using udev: - Don't remove md devices which 'standard' names on --stop - Allow dev_open to work on read-only /dev And fixed regressions: - Allow --incremental to add spares to an array - Accept --no-degraded as a deprecated option rather than

[arch-general] Hard disc clicks

2010-08-31 Thread Rafael Beraldo
Recently I got preoccupied with the hard disc clicking sounds I have been hearing since I installed Arch Linux on my Asus 1201N. Anyway, I remembered that there was an issue that could dramatically reduce the life of the hard disc, then I looked up on Google and found this article [1]. I ran smart

Re: [arch-general] kde 4.5.1 ati/intel workarounds

2010-08-31 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Martín Cigorraga > wrote: >> Try this Denis: >> >> [...@paradise ~]$ cat /usr/share/autostart/plasma-desktop.desktop >> [Desktop Entry] >> Exec=plasma-desktop --graphicssystem raster >> >> Also yo

Re: [arch-general] kde 4.5.1 ati/intel workarounds

2010-08-31 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Martín Cigorraga wrote: > Try this Denis: > > [...@paradise ~]$ cat /usr/share/autostart/plasma-desktop.desktop > [Desktop Entry] > Exec=plasma-desktop --graphicssystem raster > > Also you can add --graphicssystem raster to all KDE apps to boost > performance, spe

Re: [arch-general] HAL .fdi files stopped working

2010-08-31 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 08/31/10 17:31, Thomas Bächler wrote: I wonder why we write news announcements about these things. People don't seem to read them and ask anyway, so why bother writing the news? How about because I read and therefore ask less, and same for several other people? And am informed ahead-of-tim

Re: [arch-general] kde 4.5.1 ati/intel workarounds

2010-08-31 Thread Martín Cigorraga
Try this Denis: [...@paradise ~]$ cat /usr/share/autostart/plasma-desktop.desktop [Desktop Entry] Exec=plasma-desktop --graphicssystem raster Also you can add --graphicssystem raster to all KDE apps to boost performance, specially Yakuake if you use it. This hack should work with KWin composite f

Re: [arch-general] kde 4.5.1 ati/intel workarounds

2010-08-31 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: > On 1 September 2010 04:48, Caleb Cushing wrote: >> Does anyone know if the workarounds are still needed or if that was a >> fixed bug? I read the changelog but was unable to discern whether or >> not these were on the list of fixed kwin bugs. >

Re: [arch-general] kde 4.5.1 ati/intel workarounds

2010-08-31 Thread Ray Rashif
On 1 September 2010 04:48, Caleb Cushing wrote: > Does anyone know if the workarounds are still needed or if that was a > fixed bug? I read the changelog but was unable to discern whether or > not these were on the list of fixed kwin bugs. Still needed; has not been confirmed to be fixed: "Fix r

Re: [arch-general] HAL .fdi files stopped working

2010-08-31 Thread C Anthony Risinger
2010/8/31 Ng Oon-Ee : > On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 18:39 -0300, Guilherme M. Nogueira wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> > >> > > http://www.archlinux.org/news/502/ >> > >> > I wonder why we write news announcements about these things. People >> > don't seem to read the

Re: [arch-general] HAL .fdi files stopped working

2010-08-31 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 18:39 -0300, Guilherme M. Nogueira wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > > > > http://www.archlinux.org/news/502/ > > > > I wonder why we write news announcements about these things. People > > don't seem to read them and ask anyway, so why bothe

Re: [arch-general] HAL .fdi files stopped working

2010-08-31 Thread Guilherme M. Nogueira
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > > http://www.archlinux.org/news/502/ > > I wonder why we write news announcements about these things. People > don't seem to read them and ask anyway, so why bother writing the news? Because some of us read them and it's better to assume

Re: [arch-general] HAL .fdi files stopped working

2010-08-31 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 31.08.2010 23:31, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 31.08.2010 23:20, schrieb Ionuț Bîru: >> On 09/01/2010 12:19 AM, Linus Eklöf wrote: >>> After an upgrade in the beginning of summer (don't remember what was >>> updated) my hal fdi files in /etc/hal/fdi/policy stopped working, I >>> had to >>> change

Re: [arch-general] HAL .fdi files stopped working

2010-08-31 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 31.08.2010 23:20, schrieb Ionuț Bîru: > On 09/01/2010 12:19 AM, Linus Eklöf wrote: >> After an upgrade in the beginning of summer (don't remember what was >> updated) my hal fdi files in /etc/hal/fdi/policy stopped working, I >> had to >> change the keyboard mapping in the xfce settings and have

Re: [arch-general] HAL .fdi files stopped working

2010-08-31 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 09/01/2010 12:19 AM, Linus Eklöf wrote: After an upgrade in the beginning of summer (don't remember what was updated) my hal fdi files in /etc/hal/fdi/policy stopped working, I had to change the keyboard mapping in the xfce settings and haven't been able to use my joypad since. I can't find an

[arch-general] HAL .fdi files stopped working

2010-08-31 Thread Linus Eklöf
After an upgrade in the beginning of summer (don't remember what was updated) my hal fdi files in /etc/hal/fdi/policy stopped working, I had to change the keyboard mapping in the xfce settings and haven't been able to use my joypad since. I can't find anything on it with google and I've upgraded my

[arch-general] kde 4.5.1 ati/intel workarounds

2010-08-31 Thread Caleb Cushing
Does anyone know if the workarounds are still needed or if that was a fixed bug? I read the changelog but was unable to discern whether or not these were on the list of fixed kwin bugs. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.com

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] inkscape finding a maintainer

2010-08-31 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 08/31/2010 06:14 PM, Stefan Husmann wrote: Am 31.08.2010 14:47, schrieb Angel Velásquez: On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: [2010-08-31 01:32:21 -0400] Loui Chang: On Mon 30 Aug 2010 19:24 +0200, Gaetan Bisson wrote: [2010-08-30 19:54:44 +0300] Ionuț Bîru: Does anyone

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] inkscape finding a maintainer

2010-08-31 Thread Stefan Husmann
Am 31.08.2010 14:47, schrieb Angel Velásquez: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: >> [2010-08-31 01:32:21 -0400] Loui Chang: >>> On Mon 30 Aug 2010 19:24 +0200, Gaetan Bisson wrote: [2010-08-30 19:54:44 +0300] Ionuț Bîru: > Does anyone in our dev team uses inkscape lik

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] inkscape finding a maintainer

2010-08-31 Thread Angel Velásquez
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2010-08-31 01:32:21 -0400] Loui Chang: >> On Mon 30 Aug 2010 19:24 +0200, Gaetan Bisson wrote: >> > [2010-08-30 19:54:44 +0300] Ionuț Bîru: >> > > Does anyone in our dev team uses inkscape like a daily bases and >> > > wants to maintain it?

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 21/48] Both rc.single and rc.shutdown use the same code to kill everything.

2010-08-31 Thread Dave Reisner
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:07:52AM +0200, Kurt J. Bosch wrote: > --snip-- > > I suggest: > > From b202be97f8dc1c0c68aaea792d4457c674c673f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Kurt J. Bosch > Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:57:47 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH 17/17] Correct behaviour of kill_everything() > > -

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The "Great Python Rebuild of 2010" begins

2010-08-31 Thread Pierre Schmitz
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:31:16 -0500, Christopher Brannon wrote: >> Any updates regarding the creation of a [community-staging] repository? > > +1. Most of my packages are rebuilt; I'm just waiting to push. > > -- Chris I could add it to dbscripts and devtools easily; but some admin of sigurd ne

Re: [arch-general] cannot run pacman in different operating system

2010-08-31 Thread Łukasz Nowak
Hello, 2010/8/31 Thomas Bächler : > Am 31.08.2010 11:49, schrieb Łukasz Nowak: >> So now it is time to try to run pacman: >> >> $ pacman --help >> -bash: /home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman: No such file or directory > > Arch binaries assume the dynamic linker to be in > /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2,

Re: [arch-general] cannot run pacman in different operating system

2010-08-31 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 31.08.2010 11:49, schrieb Łukasz Nowak: > So now it is time to try to run pacman: > > $ pacman --help > -bash: /home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman: No such file or directory Arch binaries assume the dynamic linker to be in /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, while most (all?) other distributions assume

[arch-general] cannot run pacman in different operating system

2010-08-31 Thread Łukasz Nowak
Hello Dear Archians, I need to install arch from existing operating system. This is Mandriva 2010.0 64 bit: uname -a Linux luker500 2.6.33.5-server-2mnb #1 SMP Thu Jun 17 21:11:54 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I am using (and contributing to): http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Insta

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 21/48] Both rc.single and rc.shutdown use the same code to kill everything.

2010-08-31 Thread Kurt J. Bosch
2010-07-02 11:27, Thomas Bächler: First of all, sorry for not continuing the review yesterday, time is short :( Still, I'll finish this, as I'd like to have this applied eventually. Am 02.07.2010 11:21, schrieb Kurt J. Bosch: Am 2010-06-30 23:47, schrieb Victor Lowther: Move that shared code