Re: [arch-general] Fwd: [PLUG] The World's Easiest Arch Linux Manual

2011-08-06 Thread Ray Rashif
On 7 August 2011 11:43, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: >ArchWiki is an excellent source, yet we needed simplifications. Great effort, but I feel this effort could've been directed to the wiki itself to "simplify" its contents. I guess now it could be linked from the beginner's guide somewhere. --

Re: [arch-general] Canon MP280 turboprint

2011-08-06 Thread Madhurya Kakati
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 7:41 AM, R7h0re4 wrote: > Madhurya Kakati writes: >>> >>> >> >> Canon has terrible linux support. I have a canon LBP2900B laser >> printer and haven't been able to print using there official CAPT >> driver. Its something related to pstocapt files. CUPS is unable to >> commu

Re: [arch-general] Canon MP280 turboprint

2011-08-06 Thread Madhurya Kakati
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Martti Kühne wrote: > On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 4:11 AM, R7h0re4 wrote: > >> That would make sense It does work under Debian 32 so I could always >> plug in my netbook if I needed something to print.  As it stands I am >> using a print server which hooks to a windows

[arch-general] Fwd: [PLUG] The World's Easiest Arch Linux Manual

2011-08-06 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
-- Regards Shridhar--- Begin Message --- Hi, As we started publishing manuals on Muktware a few months ago. We just published a detailed Arch Linux manual. The manual is targetted at those users who want to try it but fail to do due to lack of easy manuals. ArchWiki is an excellent source,

Re: [arch-general] Canon MP280 turboprint

2011-08-06 Thread Martti Kühne
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 4:11 AM, R7h0re4 wrote: > That would make sense It does work under Debian 32 so I could always > plug in my netbook if I needed something to print.  As it stands I am > using a print server which hooks to a windows gaming machine. I might > print like once or twice a month

Re: [arch-general] Canon MP280 turboprint

2011-08-06 Thread R7h0re4
Madhurya Kakati writes: >> >> > > Canon has terrible linux support. I have a canon LBP2900B laser > printer and haven't been able to print using there official CAPT > driver. Its something related to pstocapt files. CUPS is unable to > communicate properly with the CAPT daemon which sends commands

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux 3.0.1-1

2011-08-06 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2011-08-06 17:58:53 +0200] Thomas Bächler: > Upstream changes: > http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges > > Arch Linux Changes: > - Rename the package: kernel26 -> linux > - Added necessary replaces=(...) > - Removed old comments and vercmps from .install file > - Removed old comments and replaces

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux 3.0.1-1

2011-08-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.08.2011 19:52, schrieb Tom Gundersen: > On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> please signoff the 3.0 series for both architectures. > > Signoff x86_64. > > "dmesg -k -l err" is empty, and the only mildly interesting output of > "dmesg -k -l warn" I get is: > > [7.26

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux 3.0.1-1

2011-08-06 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > please signoff the 3.0 series for both architectures. Signoff x86_64. "dmesg -k -l err" is empty, and the only mildly interesting output of "dmesg -k -l warn" I get is: [7.268214] ACPI: Deprecated procfs I/F for AC is loaded, please re

Re: [arch-general] quiet kernel parameter

2011-08-06 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 6:07 AM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Meyithi wrote: It appears that the quiet kernel parameter also sets a quiet flag i

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux 3.0.1-1

2011-08-06 Thread Myra Nelson
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 11:32, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 06.08.2011 18:27, schrieb Myra Nelson: >> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 10:58, Thomas Bächler wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> please signoff the 3.0 series for both architectures. >>> >>> Note: the upgrade path from 3.0-2 to 3.0.1-1 is not entirely smo

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux 3.0.1-1

2011-08-06 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Hi, > > please signoff the 3.0 series for both architectures. Signoff both.

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux 3.0.1-1

2011-08-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.08.2011 18:27, schrieb Myra Nelson: > On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 10:58, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> please signoff the 3.0 series for both architectures. >> >> Note: the upgrade path from 3.0-2 to 3.0.1-1 is not entirely smooth if >> you rely on the vmlinuz26 compat symlink. However, t

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux 3.0.1-1

2011-08-06 Thread Myra Nelson
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 10:58, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > Hi, > > please signoff the 3.0 series for both architectures. > > Note: the upgrade path from 3.0-2 to 3.0.1-1 is not entirely smooth if > you rely on the vmlinuz26 compat symlink. However, the upgrade path from > core/kernel26 to this versio

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel26 -> linux move compat symlinks

2011-08-06 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 06 Aug 2011 11:07:17 +0200 schrieb Thomas Bächler : > What would be the point? Well, nothing. I have to admit that I made a small error in reasoning. I just didn't thought about the change of the package name. ;-) Heiko

[arch-general] [signoff] linux 3.0.1-1

2011-08-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Hi, please signoff the 3.0 series for both architectures. Note: the upgrade path from 3.0-2 to 3.0.1-1 is not entirely smooth if you rely on the vmlinuz26 compat symlink. However, the upgrade path from core/kernel26 to this version is smooth. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChang

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel26 -> linux move compat symlinks

2011-08-06 Thread lolilolicon
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Bernardo Barros wrote: > If they have just this kernel, how they will boot the machine in order > to fix it? > They can just edit the boot menu entry (Press `e' in the case of GRUB). There're also Live CDs to rescue unbootable systems. Thomas +1

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel26 -> linux move compat symlinks

2011-08-06 Thread Bernardo Barros
If they have just this kernel, how they will boot the machine in order to fix it?

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel26 -> linux move compat symlinks

2011-08-06 Thread cantabile
On 08/06/2011 12:19 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: If you want it to be KISS, let's not provide any backward compatibility and add an install message telling people to change their bootloader. Excellent idea. ;) Users are expected to read pacman's output anyway (or suffer the consequences). -- ca

Re: [arch-general] quiet kernel parameter

2011-08-06 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 6:07 AM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Meyithi wrote: >>> It appears that the quiet kernel parameter also sets a quiet flag in >>> Syslinux as well, which is doing something horrible t

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel26 -> linux move compat symlinks

2011-08-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 05.08.2011 22:23, schrieb Heiko Baums: > Am Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:54:07 +0200 > schrieb Thomas Bächler : > >> 3) As it is now, new installations will end up with compat symlinks. >> This is only supposed to be for updates, not for new installations. > > Wouldn't it be better to put it to post_up

Re: [arch-general] Arch dumping more info than before during boot after updating.

2011-08-06 Thread Filip Filipov
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 10:02, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Karol Blazewicz > wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Madhurya Kakati > wrote: > >> Hi, > >> I ran pacman -Syu and now I am seeing more info than shown before > >> during boot. VERBOSE is set to 3 in r

Re: [arch-general] Arch dumping more info than before during boot after updating.

2011-08-06 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Karol Blazewicz > wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Madhurya Kakati >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I ran pacman -Syu and now I am seeing more info than shown before >>> during boot. VERBOSE is set to 3 in rc

Re: [arch-general] Arch dumping more info than before during boot after updating.

2011-08-06 Thread Madhurya Kakati
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: >> Hi, >> I ran pacman -Syu and now I am seeing more info than shown before >> during boot. VERBOSE is set to 3 in rc.conf. Whats happening? Any >> changes to boot process? >> Thanks >>