Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] grub/grub2 final

>> On 06/24/2012 10:51 PM, Ronald van Haren wrote: >>> >>> I'd like to move 2.00 to [core] via [testing] when it is released, >>> letting the grub-bios (atm grub2-bios) replace the old grub package. >>> Adding an install message and a news item is probably a good idea at >>> the time. >>> >>> I'll

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

On 06/27/2012 07:55 PM, Thomas Jost wrote: Le 27 juin 2012 à 17:07 CEST, Arno Gaboury a écrit : So to sum up this thread, I am left with 3 options with a Nvidia card: -uninstall Nvidia driver and install Nouveau -run Nvidia in VGA mode with a low resolution console mode at boot (couldn't find an

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

Le 27 juin 2012 à 17:07 CEST, Arno Gaboury a écrit : > So to sum up this thread, I am left with 3 options with a Nvidia card: > -uninstall Nvidia driver and install Nouveau > -run Nvidia in VGA mode with a low resolution console mode at boot > (couldn't find any trick to het an higher resolution,

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

Sent from my Galaxy S2 running Cyanogenmod 9 Come and chat on Googletalk On Jun 27, 2012 5:22 PM, "Don deJuan" wrote: > > On 06/27/2012 08:18 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote: >> >> Arno Gaboury gmail.com> writes: > > > Actually no Nvidia never supported VESA, it just happened to wor

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

On 06/27/2012 08:26 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote: Don deJuan gmail.com> writes: I do not see what I have mixed up, I never said anything about vesafb, only the VESA standard, also I have not talked about defining any modes, only another driver option to use instead of the proprietary. I think you're t

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

Don deJuan gmail.com> writes: > I do not see what I have mixed up, I never said anything about vesafb, > only the VESA standard, also I have not talked about defining any modes, > only another driver option to use instead of the proprietary. > > I think you're the one "mixing" up what we have w

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

On 06/27/2012 08:18 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote: Arno Gaboury gmail.com> writes: Actually no Nvidia never supported VESA, it just happened to work. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2561806&postcount=39 Are you so sure? http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.09/READ

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

Arno Gaboury gmail.com> writes: > >> > >> > > Actually no Nvidia never supported VESA, it just happened to work. > > > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2561806&postcount=39 > > > Are you so sure? > > http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.09/README/chapter-19.html:

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

On 06/27/2012 08:07 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: On 06/27/2012 05:00 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/27/2012 07:42 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: On 06/27/2012 04:18 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/27/2012 06:55 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote: Arno Gaboury gmail.com> writes: After lots of reading, especially *Nvidia* o

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

On 06/27/2012 05:00 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/27/2012 07:42 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: On 06/27/2012 04:18 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/27/2012 06:55 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote: Arno Gaboury gmail.com> writes: After lots of reading, especially *Nvidia* official readme, it seems this card SUPPORTS i

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

On 06/27/2012 07:42 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: On 06/27/2012 04:18 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/27/2012 06:55 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote: Arno Gaboury gmail.com> writes: After lots of reading, especially *Nvidia* official readme, it seems this card SUPPORTS indded *Vesafb*. So I think this error messa

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

On 06/27/2012 04:18 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/27/2012 06:55 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote: Arno Gaboury gmail.com> writes: After lots of reading, especially *Nvidia* official readme, it seems this card SUPPORTS indded *Vesafb*. So I think this error message has nothing to do here, and I will keep my

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

On 06/27/2012 06:55 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote: Arno Gaboury gmail.com> writes: After lots of reading, especially *Nvidia* official readme, it seems this card SUPPORTS indded *Vesafb*. So I think this error message has nothing to do here, and I will keep my *grub* file as it was first. No, it supp

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general]WIKI/pacman -Sy

On 27 June 2012 15:08, Arno Gaboury wrote: > > So let the WIKI with pacman -S and forgive me for my stupid idea. As mentioned in my reply, according to the Wiki guidelines, every pacman -S abc should be replaced with "install abc" where abc is linked to http://www.archlinux.org/packages/.../abc

Re: [arch-general] grub/grub2 final - some questions

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Keshav P R wrote: > I assume you are talking about non-UEFI systems which are currently > booting via grub-legacy, ie current core/grub or aur/grub-gfx . For > such systems, once grub-bios (aka grub2-bios) is installed, the user > has to follow > https://wiki.arc

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general]WIKI/pacman -Sy

On 06/27/2012 04:04 PM, Dennis Herbrich wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 03:56:25PM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: On the *pacman WIKI*, there is a useful Warning: **When installing packages, do *not* refresh the package list without upgrading

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general]WIKI/pacman -Sy

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 03:56:25PM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: > On the *pacman WIKI*, there is a useful Warning: > **When installing packages, do *not* refresh the package list > without upgrading > the > system (i.e. |pacman -Sy /pac

Re: [arch-general] grub/grub2 final - some questions

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:27 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > Subject: Re: [arch-dev-public] grub/grub2 final > On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Ronald van Haren wrote: > >> I was about to post a similar message... >> >> Anyway, I was planning to drop support of grub1. There has been no >> upstream for

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general]WIKI/pacman -Sy

On 27 June 2012 14:56, Arno Gaboury wrote: > But on most WIKI, when installing a new package is needed, I always find > this command: > > *$pacman -S packagenam* > > As by definition WIKI will often adress to newbies, my thought was to > replace whenever I find the above command by this following

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

On 06/27/2012 04:11 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: After lots of reading, especially *Nvidia* official readme, it seems this card SUPPORTS indded *Vesafb*. So I think this error message has nothing to do here, and I will keep my *grub* file as it was first. Vesafb is a standard that all cards are me

[arch-general] [aur-general]WIKI/pacman -Sy

Dear list, I am currently fine tunning and installing lots of services on my Arch box. In that way, I often refers to Arch WIKI. On the *pacman WIKI*, there is a useful Warning: **When installing packages, do *not* refresh the package list without upgrading

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

Arno Gaboury gmail.com> writes: > After lots of reading, especially *Nvidia* official readme, it seems > this card SUPPORTS indded *Vesafb*. So I think this error message has > nothing to do here, and I will keep my *grub* file as it was first. No, it supports the vesa standard. All cards do.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] grub/grub2 final

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Ionut Biru wrote: > On 06/24/2012 10:51 PM, Ronald van Haren wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Tobias Powalowski >> wrote: >>> HI >>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2012-06/msg00071.html >>> grub2 will hit final status soon, should packages

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] grub/grub2 final

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am 24.06.2012 22:54, schrieb Ionut Biru: >> On 06/24/2012 11:37 PM, Ronald van Haren wrote: >>> sorry I meant pkgbase >>> >>> Ronald >>> >> >> it's fine to have pkgbase=grub. > > I fear it's not as grub already has this pkgbase. They have to

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] grub/grub2 final

> > > > I'll be pushing grub2 rc1 to [testing] in a moment if you want to give > > it a try. Final 2.00 release should be in one of the next days. > > > > Cheers, > > Ronald > > > > [replying in arch-general] > > Is there anything special that users of [testing] need to do to keep > things

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

> Maybe they have more 3d nouveau features enabled than default, > but I doubt it, anyone know. There's a second stage nouveau Xorg driver. It may be that? Anyone use that and not have a delay switching to console? -- Why not do somethi

Re: [arch-general] update of chroot fails - error: cannot remove file '/sys/': Read-only file system

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:02:07AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > Attempting to update an arch chroot (only a couple days old), I have run > into > the following error: > > sudo mkarchroot -u $CHROOT/root > :: Synchronizing package databases... > core is up to date > extra is up t

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

> After lots of reading, especially *Nvidia* official readme, it seems > this card SUPPORTS indded *Vesafb*. So I think this error message has > nothing to do here, and I will keep my *grub* file as it was first. Vesafb is a standard that all cards are meant to support since decades. Running bot

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

> After lots of reading, especially *Nvidia* official readme, it seems > this card SUPPORTS indded *Vesafb*. So I think this error message has > nothing to do here, and I will keep my *grub* file as it was first. Vesafb is a standard that all cards are meant to support since decades. Running bot

Re: [arch-general] TeXlive 2012 packages

On 06/27/2012 02:18 AM, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: I would have needed the logs of failed format generation to debug. Smooth upgrade paths have always been an issue with Texlive packages. I'll try a bit more. 1) Yes - a fresh install may well have no issues. 2) Thank you for doing this :-) 3)

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

On 06/26/2012 09:42 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/26/2012 12:31 PM, Arno Gaboury wrote: dear list, After a few months of running Arch, I am now fine tuning everything (or at least trying). I discovered this error message in *kernel.log* file. NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to

[arch-general] grub/grub2 final - some questions

Subject: Re: [arch-dev-public] grub/grub2 final On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Ronald van Haren wrote: > I was about to post a similar message... > > Anyway, I was planning to drop support of grub1. There has been no > upstream for a long time and all newer features are patched in or > require

[arch-general] Can't suspend or hibernate

Hey I haven't been able to suspend my desktop for about 6 months now. I'm not sure what has caused it. I haven't had any hardware changes and even a reload hasn't fixed the problem. I've tried reading the wiki on suspending and run some tests using pm-suspend. It suspends processes fine according

Re: [arch-general] Server space to host Arch TDE binaries for testing?

Hi, I can host, but not test. And I will be away from tomorrow to the 15th, so if it needs much assistance, I couldn’t help. Cordially, -- Pazdera Corentin (Nado) Clé PGP/PGP key : http://troglodyte.be/pub/pubkey.pgp.asc pgpU8KWh2KTzz.pgp Description: PGP signature