[arch-general] Battery question about a Firmware Bug in logs.

2012-01-03 Thread Don Juan
I am running Arch on a Toshiba Qosmio x505-q887. I have tried everything I can find online and in the wikis in setting things up but no matter what I have tried I can not get rid of the message in the logs, though my battery life seems semi reasonable, roughly 1.75hrs on average so far with not

Re: [arch-general] Newbies in Arch [WAS: Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver]

2012-01-03 Thread Pham Bao Trung
@Jonathan Vasquez I must say that I totally support your point of view. I have seen some TU/devs/geeky users showed bad temper, mocking on newb at #archlinux who really came there to seek for help and wanted to switch to Arch. They just made them go away rudely. Their point is that Arch is not for

Re: [arch-general] Newbies in Arch [WAS: Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver]

2012-01-03 Thread Don Juan
On 01/03/2012 07:25 PM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: I've been doing things to attract users to Arch. Whether they are newbs or not, because I want people to learn. As long as you have willi

Re: [arch-general] Newbies in Arch [WAS: Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver]

2012-01-03 Thread Alex Liu
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > Arch's niche is about control and simplicity, and making it > 'newbie-friendly' (whatever that means) would compromise that. The 'whatever that means' part is, I think, the important aspect here. What does it mean? Is newbie-friendliness providi

Re: [arch-general] Newbies in Arch [WAS: Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver]

2012-01-03 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Jonathan Vasquez >> wrote: >>> I've been doing things to attract users to Arch. Whether they are >>> newbs or not, because I want people to learn. As l

Re: [arch-general] Newbies in Arch [WAS: Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver]

2012-01-03 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Jonathan Vasquez > wrote: >> I've been doing things to attract users to Arch. Whether they are >> newbs or not, because I want people to learn. As long as you have >> willingness and determination to learn, that

[arch-general] Newbies in Arch [WAS: Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver]

2012-01-03 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > I've been doing things to attract users to Arch. Whether they are > newbs or not, because I want people to learn. As long as you have > willingness and determination to learn, that is the important thing. > The resources are out there, peo

Re: [arch-general] Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-03 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Leonid Isaev wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 21:58:34 -0500 > Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > >> Before you speak about what attitudes I supposedly have.. why don't >> you search my forum name "Cows", and see my contributions. I mostly >> don't even ask for support, I give

Re: [arch-general] Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-03 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 21:58:34 -0500 Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > Before you speak about what attitudes I supposedly have.. why don't > you search my forum name "Cows", and see my contributions. I mostly > don't even ask for support, I give support. Check the AUR to see the > packages I've submitted. W

Re: [arch-general] [partially-OT]Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-03 Thread Don Juan
On 01/03/2012 06:47 PM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Martin wrote: Please stop fighting, this list is intended for technical discussions and not personal problems. On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:44:10 -0300, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Gaetan

Re: [arch-general] Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-03 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2012-01-03 21:47:56 -0500] Jonathan Vasquez: >> I'm tired of seeing this type of attitude from the Linux community. > > The Linux community is tired of seeing this type of attitude from you too. > >> If people don't speak up against that type

Re: [arch-general] Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-03 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-01-03 21:47:56 -0500] Jonathan Vasquez: > I'm tired of seeing this type of attitude from the Linux community. The Linux community is tired of seeing this type of attitude from you too. > If people don't speak up against that type of action, then what type > of society are we promoting? One

Re: [arch-general] Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-03 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Martin wrote: > Please stop fighting, this list is intended for technical discussions and > not personal problems. > > > On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:44:10 -0300, Jonathan Vasquez > wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Gaetan Bisson >> wrote: >>> >>> [2012-01-03

Re: [arch-general] Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-03 Thread Martin
Please stop fighting, this list is intended for technical discussions and not personal problems. On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:44:10 -0300, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: [2012-01-03 21:30:25 -0500] Jonathan Vasquez: When somebody actually *in

Re: [arch-general] Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-03 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2012-01-03 21:30:25 -0500] Jonathan Vasquez: >> How do you think problems will ever get solved? > > When somebody actually *investigates* the issue, as opposed to > incoherently describe random aspects of their setup and never get to the > bo

Re: [arch-general] Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-03 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-01-03 21:30:25 -0500] Jonathan Vasquez: > How do you think problems will ever get solved? When somebody actually *investigates* the issue, as opposed to incoherently describe random aspects of their setup and never get to the bottom of anything. > If you are an Arch user, you sure aren't ac

Re: [arch-general] Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-03 Thread Ross Hamblin
On 04/01/12 15:16, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2012-01-03 20:27:57 -0500] Jonathan Vasquez: >> It seems like you are just trolling on people that have legitimate >> questions. Signal to Noise increased. > > Exactly! > > Even Angel's troll brings more signal to this discussion than your "I > have the

Re: [arch-general] Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-03 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
Are you freaking kidding me? If I have the same problem as a fellow Arch user, then it's my god damn right to post it with him. If we both have a problem that are alike, then maybe there is a freaking correlation with other users that have not have the time nor the energy to post? How do you think

Re: [arch-general] Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-03 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-01-03 20:27:57 -0500] Jonathan Vasquez: > It seems like you are just trolling on people that have legitimate > questions. Signal to Noise increased. Exactly! Even Angel's troll brings more signal to this discussion than your "I have the same problem and no clue how to diagnose/fix it" messa

Re: [arch-general] Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-03 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
2012/1/3 Angel Velásquez : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/01/12 20:15, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> On 1/3/12, Javier Vasquez wrote: >>> On 1/3/12, C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:

Re: [arch-general] Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-03 Thread Angel Velásquez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/12 20:15, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On 1/3/12, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> On 1/3/12, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Jonathan Vasquez >>> wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Alex Ferrando wrote: >

Re: [arch-general] Booting issues

2012-01-03 Thread Fernando Fernandez
El mar, 03-01-2012 a las 11:59 -0500, Chris Brennan escribió: > Greetings! Just to give everyone a clue, this is not my first go-around > with Linux, I'm an old hand of sorts, but this is my first time using > ArchLinux, so please bare with me here. > > My target install is an Asus A53E laptop (re

Re: [arch-general] Terrible flash performance

2012-01-03 Thread Vladimir Nikšić
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Manne Merak wrote: > I have same flashplugin installed, same CPU, with Nvidia, high res 1920x1200 > and fullscreen works fine. There are some oddities with this flash version. For example... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKv7lyIJts0 This video plays terribly in fu

Re: [arch-general] Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-03 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 1/3/12, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On 1/3/12, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Jonathan Vasquez >> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Alex Ferrando >>> wrote: On 03/01/12 21:25, Javier Vasquez wrote: > > % 'grep' resume /etc/mkinitcpio.conf HOOKS

Re: [arch-general] Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-03 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 1/3/12, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Jonathan Vasquez > wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Alex Ferrando wrote: >>> On 03/01/12 21:25, Javier Vasquez wrote: % 'grep' resume /etc/mkinitcpio.conf HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sat

Re: [arch-general] unionfs or aufs, available somewhere?

2012-01-03 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 10:59:19AM -0600, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >> On Jan 3, 2012 8:51 AM, "Magnus Therning" wrote: >>> >>> Ouch, that sucks.  I'll just revert to making copies and wasting >>> space then :( >> >> If performance isn't t

Re: [arch-general] Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-03 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Alex Ferrando wrote: >> On 03/01/12 21:25, Javier Vasquez wrote: >>> >>> % 'grep' resume /etc/mkinitcpio.conf HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi >>> sata usb filesystems keymap usbinput resume" >> >> Last

Re: [arch-general] Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-03 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Alex Ferrando wrote: > On 03/01/12 21:25, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> >> % 'grep' resume /etc/mkinitcpio.conf HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi >> sata usb filesystems keymap usbinput resume" > > > Last time I checked (2 secs ago) resume hook should go before files

Re: [arch-general] Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-03 Thread Alex Ferrando
On 03/01/12 21:25, Javier Vasquez wrote: % 'grep' resume /etc/mkinitcpio.conf HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata usb filesystems keymap usbinput resume" Last time I checked (2 secs ago) resume hook should go before filesystems. -- Alex

Re: [arch-general] Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-03 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 1/3/12, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Fabio Mancinelli > wrote: >> >> >> This fixed the redrawing issues but made my laptop start to freeze on >> suspend (with the proprietary driver, suspend worked without any >> issues) >> >> I looked at the log in /var/log/

Re: [arch-general] Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-03 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Fabio Mancinelli wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I switched from nVidia proprietary drivers, that had some window > redrawing issues, to nouveau. > > This fixed the redrawing issues but made my laptop start to freeze on > suspend (with the proprietary driver, suspend wo

[arch-general] Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-03 Thread Fabio Mancinelli
Hi everybody, I switched from nVidia proprietary drivers, that had some window redrawing issues, to nouveau. This fixed the redrawing issues but made my laptop start to freeze on suspend (with the proprietary driver, suspend worked without any issues) I looked at the log in /var/log/ but everyth

Re: [arch-general] unionfs or aufs, available somewhere?

2012-01-03 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 10:59:19AM -0600, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Jan 3, 2012 8:51 AM, "Magnus Therning" wrote: >> >> Ouch, that sucks. I'll just revert to making copies and wasting >> space then :( > > If performance isn't that enormously critical I've used FUSE based > union file system

[arch-general] Booting issues

2012-01-03 Thread Chris Brennan
Greetings! Just to give everyone a clue, this is not my first go-around with Linux, I'm an old hand of sorts, but this is my first time using ArchLinux, so please bare with me here. My target install is an Asus A53E laptop (re-modeled K53E) and I am installing to an external USB Hard-Drive. The ha

Re: [arch-general] unionfs or aufs, available somewhere?

2012-01-03 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Jan 3, 2012 8:51 AM, "Magnus Therning" wrote: > > Ouch, that sucks. I'll just revert to making copies and wasting space then :( If performance isn't that enormously critical I've used FUSE based union file systems in the past with success ... it worked well for my needs. -- C Anthony [mobil

Re: [arch-general] Terrible flash performance

2012-01-03 Thread Manne Merak
On 01/03/2012 02:58 PM, Vladimir Nikšić wrote: I have an ongoing problem with flash performance. I tried installing flashplugin-11.1.102.55-1 from the pacman repositories. The videos on youtube for example, works fine as long as I don't turn on fullscreen. The video gets really choppy and the C

Re: [arch-general] unionfs or aufs, available somewhere?

2012-01-03 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 12:04, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 03.01.2012 11:26, schrieb Magnus Therning: >> Is either of them easily available somewhere? >> >> I'd like to use the `union-type=` option of `schroot`, but so far it >> looks like I'll have to get a new kernel from AUR and compile aufs3 >>

Re: [arch-general] Terrible flash performance

2012-01-03 Thread Bastian Beischer
On a related note, does your flashplayer crash as often as mine does? I often get chromium notifications that the plugin crashed. Sometimes I have to refresh some flash page (youtube,...) at least 10 times before it finally starts playing the video. This is on x86_64 with flashplugin from extra, bu

Re: [arch-general] Terrible flash performance

2012-01-03 Thread Vladimir Nikšić
> You could use stuff like minitube for youtube or youtube-dl I know of minitube, but that's not a replacement for in-browser youtube, clicking links, multiple tabs, etc...

Re: [arch-general] Terrible flash performance

2012-01-03 Thread OK
On 03/01/12 at 02:48pm, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > On 03/01/12 14:47, Vladimir Nikšić wrote: > >> Have you tried switching the hardware acceleration on or off either through > >> the interface or the /etc/adobe/mms.cfg file ? > > > > Tried all combinations, no luck. > > > >> For YouTube, you shou

Re: [arch-general] Terrible flash performance

2012-01-03 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 03/01/12 14:47, Vladimir Nikšić wrote: >> Have you tried switching the hardware acceleration on or off either through >> the interface or the /etc/adobe/mms.cfg file ? > > Tried all combinations, no luck. > >> For YouTube, you should switch to HTML5 [1]. > > Yes, I'm well aware of the HTML5 y

Re: [arch-general] Terrible flash performance

2012-01-03 Thread Vladimir Nikšić
> Have you tried switching the hardware acceleration on or off either through > the interface or the /etc/adobe/mms.cfg file ? Tried all combinations, no luck. > For YouTube, you should switch to HTML5 [1]. Yes, I'm well aware of the HTML5 youtube. It's still not up to speed, as far as stability

Re: [arch-general] Terrible flash performance

2012-01-03 Thread Vladimir Nikšić
> Do you have "EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1" uncommented > in /etc/adobe/mms.cfg? I had to comment mine out else I get results > much like yours. It was already set to 0. Just as a precaution, I commented it out, but as expected, no changes.

Re: [arch-general] Terrible flash performance

2012-01-03 Thread Vladimir Nikšić
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 03.01.2012 13:58, schrieb Vladimir Nikšić: >> A couple of months ago I switched from >> Ubuntu where youtube was working essentially flawlessly, fullscreen or not. > > "A couple of months ago", there was no 64 bit version of the flash > pl

Re: [arch-general] Terrible flash performance

2012-01-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.01.2012 13:58, schrieb Vladimir Nikšić: > A couple of months ago I switched from > Ubuntu where youtube was working essentially flawlessly, fullscreen or not. "A couple of months ago", there was no 64 bit version of the flash player, only a 32 bit version. > The same issue occurs on manuall

Re: [arch-general] Where Should I Report This?

2012-01-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.01.2012 14:03, schrieb Bastien Dejean: > Hi, > > I've been using stderred[1] and one of the things that everyone would > expect to work doesn't[2]. > > Is there a bug here? > If so, where should I report it? > > [1] https://github.com/sickill/stderred > [2] https://github.com/sickill/stder

Re: [arch-general] Terrible flash performance

2012-01-03 Thread Cédric Girard
2012/1/3 Vladimir Nikšić > I have an ongoing problem with flash performance. I tried installing > flashplugin-11.1.102.55-1 from the pacman repositories. The videos on > youtube for example, works fine as long as I don't turn on fullscreen. The > video gets really choppy and the CPU usage spikes

Re: [arch-general] Terrible flash performance

2012-01-03 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:58:23 +0100 Vladimir Nikšić wrote: > I have an ongoing problem with flash performance. I tried installing > flashplugin-11.1.102.55-1 from the pacman repositories. The videos on > youtube for example, works fine as long as I don't turn on > fullscreen. The video gets real

Re: [arch-general] Terrible flash performance

2012-01-03 Thread Vladimir Nikšić
> Try flashplugin-beta from AUR. It works for me much better than flashplugin > from > extra repository. Just tried it. The same thing as from the extra or just libflashplayer.so placed in the appropriate plugin file. :/

Re: [arch-general] Terrible flash performance

2012-01-03 Thread OK
On 03/01/12 at 01:58pm, Vladimir Nikšić wrote: > I have an ongoing problem with flash performance. I tried installing > flashplugin-11.1.102.55-1 from the pacman repositories. The videos > on youtube for example, works fine as long as I don't turn on > fullscreen. The video gets really choppy and t

[arch-general] Where Should I Report This?

2012-01-03 Thread Bastien Dejean
Hi, I've been using stderred[1] and one of the things that everyone would expect to work doesn't[2]. Is there a bug here? If so, where should I report it? [1] https://github.com/sickill/stderred [2] https://github.com/sickill/stderred/issues/13 Greetings, -- b.d (| |) ^ ^

[arch-general] Terrible flash performance

2012-01-03 Thread Vladimir Nikšić
I have an ongoing problem with flash performance. I tried installing flashplugin-11.1.102.55-1 from the pacman repositories. The videos on youtube for example, works fine as long as I don't turn on fullscreen. The video gets really choppy and the CPU usage spikes to 100% (one core). I have a Co

Re: [arch-general] unionfs or aufs, available somewhere?

2012-01-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.01.2012 11:26, schrieb Magnus Therning: > Is either of them easily available somewhere? > > I'd like to use the `union-type=` option of `schroot`, but so far it > looks like I'll have to get a new kernel from AUR and compile aufs3 > myself to set it up. Is neither of these rather useful fil

[arch-general] unionfs or aufs, available somewhere?

2012-01-03 Thread Magnus Therning
Is either of them easily available somewhere? I'd like to use the `union-type=` option of `schroot`, but so far it looks like I'll have to get a new kernel from AUR and compile aufs3 myself to set it up. Is neither of these rather useful filesystems available pre-built somewhere? /M -- Magnus