[arch-general] libgsf update

2011-12-18 Thread Myra Nelson
What is the proper procedure for updating libgsf. Per the commit message libgnome-gsf was dropped because upstream dropped it. When trying to update the following error occurs. error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: libgsf-gnome: requires libgsf=1.14.21. I realiz

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-18 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 17/12/11 23:07, Ethan Schoonover wrote: > There was a recent Arch-Haskell thread about dumping most of AUR > Haskell packages: > http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/arch-haskell/2011-November/001744.html > > As an end user, I effectively ignore the official Arch Haskell > packages as they are so f

Re: [arch-general] libgsf update

2011-12-18 Thread Ionut Biru
On 12/18/2011 10:31 AM, Myra Nelson wrote: > What is the proper procedure for updating libgsf. Per the commit message > libgnome-gsf was dropped because upstream dropped it. When trying to update > the following error occurs. > > error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies

[arch-general] glibc update broke time display

2011-12-18 Thread Geert Hendrickx
glibc-2.14.1-3 broke time display for me. It displays UTC regardless of /etc/localtime or TZ environment variable. Downgrading fixed it again. # date Sun Dec 18 09:35:36 UTC 2011 # ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Dec 1 20:02 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels

Re: [arch-general] glibc update broke time display

2011-12-18 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 12/18/2011 09:40 AM, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > glibc-2.14.1-3 broke time display for me. > > It displays UTC regardless of /etc/localtime or TZ environment variable. > > Downgrading fixed it again. > > # date > Sun Dec 18 09:35:36 UTC 2011 > # ls -l /etc/localtime > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Dec

Re: [arch-general] glibc update broke time display

2011-12-18 Thread Allan McRae
On 18/12/11 19:44, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > On 12/18/2011 09:40 AM, Geert Hendrickx wrote: >> glibc-2.14.1-3 broke time display for me. >> >> It displays UTC regardless of /etc/localtime or TZ environment variable. >> >> Downgrading fixed it again. >> >> # date >> Sun Dec 18 09:35:36 UTC 2011 >>

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-18 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 18/12/11 09:53, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > On 17/12/11 23:07, Ethan Schoonover wrote: >> There was a recent Arch-Haskell thread about dumping most of AUR >> Haskell packages: >> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/arch-haskell/2011-November/001744.html >> >> As an end user, I effectively ignore the

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-18 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:31:09AM +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote: [...] > > Btw adopted xmonad,xmonad-contrib, these packages will be updated today. Excellent, then I can stop building these for myself. Are you considering adding xmonad-extras too, or should I go ahead and add that to [haskell]

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-18 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 18/12/11 11:48, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:31:09AM +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > [...] >> >> Btw adopted xmonad,xmonad-contrib, these packages will be updated today. > > Excellent, then I can stop building these for myself. Are you > considering adding xmonad-extra

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-18 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 09:53:40AM +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote: [...] > What are the real troubling haskell packages? Only GHC, > haskell-platform and XMonad? I'm not sure any of them are troubling. This is my view on it: - GHC is a big package, but Vesa is doing a good job keeping it up-to

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-18 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:53:29AM +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > On 18/12/11 11:48, Magnus Therning wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:31:09AM +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > > [...] > >> > >> Btw adopted xmonad,xmonad-contrib, these packages will be updated today. > > > > Excellent, then

Re: [arch-general] clipped video output with multihead

2011-12-18 Thread Ralf Madorf
On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 01:10 -0300, Sébastien le Preste de Vauban wrote: > When I play a video with mplayer2 (also happens with tvtime) > > MPlayer2 2.0-379-ge3f5043 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team > 162 audio & 361 video codecs > > I get the following display problem on screen 2 Linux isn't the best

Re: [arch-general] clipped video output with multihead

2011-12-18 Thread Ralf Madorf
PPS: There was a request at Ubuntu Studio users list what to use as the default video player. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-users/2011-December/008049.html Suggested was TOTEM, some preferred VLC, nobody was thinking of MPlayer ;).

Re: [arch-general] clipped video output with multihead

2011-12-18 Thread Mauro Santos
On 18-12-2011 11:40, Ralf Madorf wrote: > On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 01:10 -0300, Sébastien le Preste de Vauban wrote: >> When I play a video with mplayer2 (also happens with tvtime) >> >> MPlayer2 2.0-379-ge3f5043 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team >> 162 audio & 361 video codecs >> >> I get the following disp

Re: [arch-general] clipped video output with multihead

2011-12-18 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 18/12/11 13:23, Mauro Santos wrote: > On 18-12-2011 11:40, Ralf Madorf wrote: >> On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 01:10 -0300, Sébastien le Preste de Vauban wrote: >>> When I play a video with mplayer2 (also happens with tvtime) >>> >>> MPlayer2 2.0-379-ge3f5043 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team >>> 162 audio & 3

[arch-general] OT: clipped video output with multihead

2011-12-18 Thread Ralf Madorf
On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 12:23 +, Mauro Santos wrote: > Come again? VLC and mplayer have always been able to happily play > everything I've thrown at them while many windows players crap > themselves out because they either don't know how to handle the > container, video or audio. I don't have ex

Re: [arch-general] clipped video output with multihead

2011-12-18 Thread Sébastien le Preste de Vauban
El 18/12/11 08:40, Ralf Madorf escribió: On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 01:10 -0300, Sébastien le Preste de Vauban wrote: When I play a video with mplayer2 (also happens with tvtime) MPlayer2 2.0-379-ge3f5043 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team 162 audio& 361 video codecs I get the following display problem on

Re: [arch-general] clipped video output with multihead

2011-12-18 Thread Jesse Jaara
Did you try with differend backends? xv/gl/(vdpau)

Re: [arch-general] clipped video output with multihead

2011-12-18 Thread Ralf Madorf
On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 09:41 -0300, Sébastien le Preste de Vauban wrote: > El 18/12/11 08:40, Ralf Madorf escribió: > > On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 01:10 -0300, Sébastien le Preste de Vauban wrote: > >> When I play a video with mplayer2 (also happens with tvtime) > >> > >> MPlayer2 2.0-379-ge3f5043 (C) 20

Re: [arch-general] glibc update broke time display

2011-12-18 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 20:02:38 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Have reproduced and fixed. Will be uploading a new package in the next > hour or so. Fix confirmed, glibc-2.14.1-4 works for me. Thanks, Geert -- geert.hendrickx.be :: ge...@hendrickx.be :: PGP: 0xC4BB9E9F This e-mail was

Re: [arch-general] clipped video output with multihead

2011-12-18 Thread Ralf Madorf
On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 14:56 +0200, Jesse Jaara wrote: > Did you try with differend backends? xv/gl/(vdpau) Again, I agree, backends for what ever! Interpretation of the codecs might be important too. Dunno, but I guess Jesse refers to some X related thingies. I experienced differences using those

Re: [arch-general] clipped video output with multihead

2011-12-18 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 18/12/11 14:05, Ralf Madorf wrote: > On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 14:56 +0200, Jesse Jaara wrote: >> Did you try with differend backends? xv/gl/(vdpau) > > Again, I agree, backends for what ever! Interpretation of the codecs > might be important too. Dunno, but I guess Jesse refers to some X > related

Re: [arch-general] clipped video output with multihead

2011-12-18 Thread Sébastien le Preste de Vauban
El 18/12/11 09:56, Jesse Jaara escribió: Did you try with differend backends? xv/gl/(vdpau) Thanks, Results: Same problem with: xv, sdl No issues with: gl, x11, gl_nosw, gl_sdl Tested with mplayer2 Now I am figuring out how to change the video output driver with tvtime (I have a bttv compa

Re: [arch-general] clipped video output with multihead

2011-12-18 Thread Mauro Santos
On 18-12-2011 04:10, Sébastien le Preste de Vauban wrote: > When I play a video with mplayer2 (also happens with tvtime) > > MPlayer2 2.0-379-ge3f5043 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team > 162 audio & 361 video codecs Can you give mplayer (just mplayer, not mplayer2) a try? I've had problems with mplayer2

Re: [arch-general] clipped video output with multihead

2011-12-18 Thread Mauro Santos
On 18-12-2011 14:15, Mauro Santos wrote: > On 18-12-2011 04:10, Sébastien le Preste de Vauban wrote: >> When I play a video with mplayer2 (also happens with tvtime) >> >> MPlayer2 2.0-379-ge3f5043 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team >> 162 audio & 361 video codecs > > Can you give mplayer (just mplayer, no

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-18 Thread Norbert Zeh
Magnus Therning [2011.12.18 1148 +0100]: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:31:09AM +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > [...] > > > > Btw adopted xmonad,xmonad-contrib, these packages will be updated today. > > Excellent, then I can stop building these for myself. Are you > considering adding xmonad-ext

Re: [arch-general] libgsf update

2011-12-18 Thread Myra Nelson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 09:01, Ionut Biru wrote: > On 12/18/2011 10:31 AM, Myra Nelson wrote: > > What is the proper procedure for updating libgsf. Per the commit message > > libgnome-gsf was dropped because upstream dropped it. When trying to > update > > the following error occurs. > > > > erro

Re: [arch-general] libgsf update

2011-12-18 Thread Ionut Biru
On 12/18/2011 07:04 PM, Myra Nelson wrote: >>> I realize I can complete the update by pacman -Suf or pacman -Rdd >>> libgsf-gnome then install the libgsf update but would think this would be >>> handled by an install file included with the package. I would prefer not >> to >>> bork my box so I thou

[arch-general] Xmonad session fails since upgrade

2011-12-18 Thread Mathias Huber
Dear Archers, I've had a working Xmonad installation since May, I start it via GDM and "/usr/share/xsessions/xmonad.desktop" as described in Arch wiki. However, since the latest "pacman -Syu" GDM just tells me it was unable to start the Xmonad session. I've issued "xmonad --recompile" several

Re: [arch-general] libgsf update

2011-12-18 Thread Myra Nelson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 17:39, Ionut Biru wrote: > On 12/18/2011 07:04 PM, Myra Nelson wrote: > >>> I realize I can complete the update by pacman -Suf or pacman -Rdd > >>> libgsf-gnome then install the libgsf update but would think this would > be > >>> handled by an install file included with th

Re: [arch-general] libgsf update

2011-12-18 Thread Myra Nelson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 18:46, Myra Nelson wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 17:39, Ionut Biru wrote: > >> On 12/18/2011 07:04 PM, Myra Nelson wrote: >> >>> I realize I can complete the update by pacman -Suf or pacman -Rdd >> >>> libgsf-gnome then install the libgsf update but would think thi

Re: [arch-general] Xmonad session fails since upgrade

2011-12-18 Thread Ivan Sichmann Freitas
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 07:08:50PM +0100, Mathias Huber wrote: > However, since the latest "pacman -Syu" GDM just tells me it was > unable to start the Xmonad session. I've issued "xmonad --recompile" > several times, which didn't help. "~/.xmonad/xmonad.errors" is brand > new, but empty. I've -Sy

Re: [arch-general] Wireless-N 300 [Broadcom BCM43231] - FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper

2011-12-18 Thread David C. Rankin
On 12/16/2011 10:40 PM, Alex Liu wrote: > First, have you tried the generic broadcom-wl driver instead of > ndiswrapper? > Tell me if anything of this works for you. Alex, Thanks, will do. The current xp drivers work fantastic, so I will try the ndiswrapper avenue first. If I can get that go

Re: [arch-general] Xmonad session fails since upgrade

2011-12-18 Thread Mathias Huber
Am 18.12.2011 20:01, schrieb Ivan Sichmann Freitas: On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 07:08:50PM +0100, Mathias Huber wrote: However, since the latest "pacman -Syu" GDM just tells me it was unable to start the Xmonad session. I've issued "xmonad --recompile" several times, which didn't help. "~/.xmonad/xm

Re: [arch-general] libgsf update

2011-12-18 Thread Myra Nelson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 18:58, Myra Nelson wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 18:46, Myra Nelson wrote: > >> >> Clarifying the manual might help. If you don't mind I'll take a look at >> the man page and see if I can make the necessary changes. I also wonder >> about adding a message similar t

Re: [arch-general] libgsf update

2011-12-18 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Myra Nelson wrote: > What is the proper procedure for sending a patch for the man pages? I've > done some work on pacman.8 to reflect some of the wiki changes. Also would > it be acceptable to include in the man page that the -f option has been > deprecated and sho

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-18 Thread Bernardo Barros
Just try to support Haskell Platform in extra/community. That's enough.

Re: [arch-general] libgsf update

2011-12-18 Thread Myra Nelson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 21:08, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Myra Nelson > wrote: > > What is the proper procedure for sending a patch for the man pages? I've > > done some work on pacman.8 to reflect some of the wiki changes. Also > would > > it be acceptable to inclu

Re: [arch-general] libgsf update

2011-12-18 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Myra Nelson wrote: > Karol: > > Thanks for the link. Not quite what I was referring to. Argh, you're right, sorry. Let's try again ;P https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=124840 IMHO, writing "This option should be used with care, ideally not at all" as pa

Re: [arch-general] libgsf update

2011-12-18 Thread Myra Nelson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 22:17, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Myra Nelson > wrote: > > Karol: > > > > Thanks for the link. Not quite what I was referring to. > > Argh, you're right, sorry. > Let's try again ;P https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=124840 > > IMHO,

Re: [arch-general] libgsf update

2011-12-18 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Myra Nelson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 22:17, Karol Blazewicz > wrote: > Would it be better to make both sections > read ( pacman -Sy then pacman -S package_name or pacman -Su )? 'pacman -Sy foo' or alternatively 'pacman -Sy' followed by 'pacman -S foo' is

Re: [arch-general] libgsf update

2011-12-18 Thread Myra Nelson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 22:55, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Myra Nelson > wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 22:17, Karol Blazewicz < > karol.blazew...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Would it be better to make both sections > > read ( pacman -Sy then pacman -S package_name or

Re: [arch-general] libgsf update

2011-12-18 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Myra Nelson wrote: > pacman -Syu gpm It's fine because it's equal to pacman -Sy + pacman -Su + pacman -S gpm pacman -Su is the crucial step you shouldn't omit. I think you should use the wiki talk page for suggestions how to improve the article.

Re: [arch-general] libgsf update

2011-12-18 Thread Myra Nelson
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 01:36, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Myra Nelson > wrote: > > pacman -Syu gpm > > It's fine because it's equal to pacman -Sy + pacman -Su + pacman -S gpm > pacman -Su is the crucial step you shouldn't omit. > > > I think you should use the wiki

Re: [arch-general] OT: clipped video output with multihead

2011-12-18 Thread 李凌
smplayer is good. 在 2011年12月18日 下午8:35,Ralf Madorf 写道: > On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 12:23 +, Mauro Santos wrote: > > Come again? VLC and mplayer have always been able to happily play > > everything I've thrown at them while many windows players crap > > themselves out because they either don't kno

Re: [arch-general] Wireless-N 300 [Broadcom BCM43231] - FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper

2011-12-18 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 2:05 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > >  I think the biggest issue right now is why ndiswrapper isn't working > properly. this isn't a direct solution, but as i spent a great deal of time recently-ish finding good (USB) wifi chips to use as APs and as a client stations, it ma