Re: [arch-general] / mounted ro after update

2012-09-21 Thread P .NIKOLIC
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:26:54 +0100 P .NIKOLIC p.nikol...@btinternet.com wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:07:55 +0100 Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: all disc ID's are correct so what has been screwed up this was perfect until the update or am i going to be forced to

Re: [arch-general] [OT] Sending a laptop to the repair shop

2012-09-21 Thread André Prata
If it's not encrypted, creating another user does you no good, since anyone with physical access to the computer can easily access all the files by simply using a LiveCD, for example... Just assume the worst at all times, and you will be fine! On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Manolo Martínez

[arch-general] Iinstallation program

2012-09-21 Thread Jan Litwiński
When will Arch have more friendly installation program like Ubuntu, Fedora, or opwnSUSE. I installed Arch some years ago and it was very difficult for me. -- Jan Litwiński http://netsjanek.blogspot.com/ Linux is like a wigwam no gates no windows but apache inside

Re: [arch-general] Iinstallation program

2012-09-21 Thread Allan McRae
On 21/09/12 18:03, Jan Litwiński wrote: When will Arch have more friendly installation program like Ubuntu, Fedora, or opwnSUSE. I installed Arch some years ago and it was very difficult for me. Ha ha ha... best troll ever!

Re: [arch-general] Iinstallation program

2012-09-21 Thread Frederic Bezies
On 21/09/2012 10:03, Jan Litwiński wrote: When will Arch have more friendly installation program like Ubuntu, Fedora, or opwnSUSE. I installed Arch some years ago and it was very difficult for me. If you're looking for a more simpler installation program, check manjaro linux -

Re: [arch-general] [OT] Sending a laptop to the repair shop

2012-09-21 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sep 21, 2012 2:39 AM, Manolo Martínez man...@austrohungaro.com wrote: Just a quick question. What do you guys do when you have to leave your laptop at the repair shop? Do you create a new user for them, you give them your user and password and hope for the best, ask them to use a live CD?

Re: [arch-general] / mounted ro after update

2012-09-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
What's a good size number for a /boot partition? Needs to be large enough kernel updates don't break the computer if possible or a reasonable estimate to that end. 50 Meg per kernel should future proof, though I hope default kernels never get that large. --

Re: [arch-general] Iinstallation program

2012-09-21 Thread Lukas Jirkovsky
On 21 September 2012 10:03, Jan Litwiński jlitwin...@vp.pl wrote: When will Arch have more friendly installation program like Ubuntu, Fedora, or opwnSUSE. I installed Arch some years ago and it was very difficult for me. I guess Arch is probably not the right distro for you.

Re: [arch-general] Iinstallation program

2012-09-21 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am 21.09.2012 10:12, schrieb Frederic Bezies: On 21/09/2012 10:03, Jan Litwiński wrote: When will Arch have more friendly installation program like Ubuntu, Fedora, or opwnSUSE. I installed Arch some years ago and it was very difficult for me. If you're looking for a more simpler

Re: [arch-general] Iinstallation program

2012-09-21 Thread Martín Cigorraga
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: On 21/09/12 18:03, Jan Litwiński wrote: When will Arch have more friendly installation program like Ubuntu, Fedora, or opwnSUSE. I installed Arch some years ago and it was very difficult for me. Ha ha ha... best

Re: [arch-general] Iinstallation program

2012-09-21 Thread Jan Litwiński
Dnia piątek, 21 września 2012 10:26:38 Lukas Jirkovsky pisze: On 21 September 2012 10:03, Jan Litwiński jlitwin...@vp.pl wrote: When will Arch have more friendly installation program like Ubuntu, Fedora, or opwnSUSE. I installed Arch some years ago and it was very difficult for me. I

Re: [arch-general] Iinstallation program

2012-09-21 Thread SanskritFritz
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Jan Litwiński jlitwin...@vp.pl wrote: Dnia piątek, 21 września 2012 10:26:38 Lukas Jirkovsky pisze: On 21 September 2012 10:03, Jan Litwiński jlitwin...@vp.pl wrote: When will Arch have more friendly installation program like Ubuntu, Fedora, or opwnSUSE. I

Re: [arch-general] Iinstallation program

2012-09-21 Thread Jan Litwiński
Dnia piątek, 21 września 2012 10:59:25 SanskritFritz pisze: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Jan Litwiński jlitwin...@vp.pl wrote: Dnia piątek, 21 września 2012 10:26:38 Lukas Jirkovsky pisze: On 21 September 2012 10:03, Jan Litwiński jlitwin...@vp.pl wrote: When will Arch have more

[arch-general] Cannot see tty after starting X

2012-09-21 Thread Aurko Roy
Hi, I am unable to see the ttys immediately after starting X. Neither the original tty from which X was started nor the other unused ones seem to be visible. I have an Nvidia graphics card and I have tried using both the nouveau as well as the proprietary nvidia driver - but neither seem to

Re: [arch-general] Cannot see tty after starting X

2012-09-21 Thread Aurko Roy
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Aurko Roy roy.au...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am unable to see the ttys immediately after starting X. Neither the original tty from which X was started nor the other unused ones seem to be visible. I have an Nvidia graphics card and I have tried using both the

[arch-general] Can't see all my memory

2012-09-21 Thread Guillermo Leira
Hello! I've installed an x86_64 Arch on a PC with 8 GB, but it seems to be seeing just four. What have I done wrong? Bios sees 4 x 2GB Modules and reports 8 GB, but top or free report only 4 GB. Best Regards Guillermo Leira

Re: [arch-general] Can't see all my memory

2012-09-21 Thread Roel Deckers
Does the missing memory show up in other OSs? It can be faulty ram if it doesn't show up in any OS, recently had that problem. On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Guillermo Leira gle...@gleira.com wrote: Hello! I've installed an x86_64 Arch on a PC with 8 GB, but it seems to be seeing just

Re: [arch-general] Can't see all my memory

2012-09-21 Thread Aurko Roy
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Roel Deckers r.deckers...@gmail.comwrote: Does the missing memory show up in other OSs? It can be faulty ram if it doesn't show up in any OS, recently had that problem. On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Guillermo Leira gle...@gleira.com wrote: Hello!

Re: [arch-general] Iinstallation program

2012-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 18:09 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: On 21/09/12 18:03, Jan Litwiński wrote: When will Arch have more friendly installation program like Ubuntu, Fedora, or opwnSUSE. I installed Arch some years ago and it was very difficult for me. Ha ha ha... best troll ever!

Re: [arch-general] [OT] Sending a laptop to the repair shop

2012-09-21 Thread Manolo Martínez
Thanks to everyone for the comments. Let me say, lest I'm taken to be even more clueless than I am, that I am aware that live CDs and alternative users are no real protection. They will probably work as a signal that I'd prefer my data not to be browsed, though, and that's enough for me, I think.

Re: [arch-general] Iinstallation program

2012-09-21 Thread Bigby James
Please, please /please/ don't recommend spin-offs as Arch Lite or Arch Made Easy or anything like that. Neither Manjaro nor Chakra are closely related to Arch, and giving folks the impression that they are just leads them to ask for help on our forums--where they get the brush-off--and everyone

Re: [arch-general] Cannot see tty after starting X

2012-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 16:04 +0530, Aurko Roy wrote: I downgraded to xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.1-1 and the ttys are working again. I guess the latest update (1.0.2-1) is buggy. I switched from my on-board ATI to an PCIe NVIDI card. At the moment I struggle with issues regarding to real-time audio

Re: [arch-general] Can't see all my memory

2012-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 16:17 +0530, Aurko Roy wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Roel Deckers r.deckers...@gmail.comwrote: Does the missing memory show up in other OSs? It can be faulty ram if it doesn't show up in any OS, recently had that problem. On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:37

[arch-general] libffado update

2012-09-21 Thread Aapo Vienamo
Hello. I noticed that libffado was updated recently. It looks like that the new version of libffado is incompatible with the version of jack in the arch repos. To demonstrate the problem: aapo ~ $ jackd -dfirewire -r192000 jackd 0.121.3 Copyright 2001-2009 Paul Davis, Stephane Letz, Jack

Re: [arch-general] [Bulk] Re: Can't see all my memory

2012-09-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I never heard that anybody solved this issue, but I read that many people have this issue too. On my computer there are only 3 GB + 768 MB of 4 MB available. The graphics has got it's own framebuffer, 256 MB, but IIRC I once have seen that the framebuffer is 512 MB. I guess I can see it

Re: [arch-general] libffado update

2012-09-21 Thread Allan McRae
On 21/09/12 23:36, Aapo Vienamo wrote: Hello. I noticed that libffado was updated recently. It looks like that the new version of libffado is incompatible with the version of jack in the arch repos. To demonstrate the problem: aapo ~ $ jackd -dfirewire -r192000 jackd 0.121.3

Re: [arch-general] Can't see all my memory

2012-09-21 Thread Victor Silva
2012/9/21 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 16:17 +0530, Aurko Roy wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Roel Deckers r.deckers...@gmail.com wrote: Does the missing memory show up in other OSs? It can be faulty ram if it doesn't show up in any OS,

[arch-general] Laptop auto shudown

2012-09-21 Thread 大熊
I have a fresh installed laptop, DE is lxde. It is a clean system, no more tweak. Recently I found a strange problem: after I close the lid about 5 minutes, laptop will shutdown itself! I donot remeber I have do some setting about power management, and I have installed pm-utils, but not acpid.

Re: [arch-general] [Bulk] Re: Can't see all my memory

2012-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 14:48 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I never heard that anybody solved this issue, but I read that many people have this issue too. On my computer there are only 3 GB + 768 MB of 4 MB available. The graphics has got it's own framebuffer, 256 MB, but IIRC I once have

Re: [arch-general] Can't see all my memory

2012-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 10:52 -0300, Victor Silva wrote: 2012/9/21 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 16:17 +0530, Aurko Roy wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Roel Deckers r.deckers...@gmail.com wrote: Does the missing memory show up in other OSs?

[arch-general] Has arch considered switching x86 to PAE by default

2012-09-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I read not too long ago that one of the major distros is switching to PAE by default but I forget which distro, maybe Ubuntu. Has arch considered PAE by default. -- ___ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write

Re: [arch-general] Has arch considered switching x86 to PAE by default

2012-09-21 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I read not too long ago that one of the major distros is switching to PAE by default but I forget which distro, maybe Ubuntu. Has arch considered PAE by default. It has been discussed repeatedly in the past.

Re: [arch-general] Has arch considered switching x86 to PAE by default

2012-09-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I read not too long ago that one of the major distros is switching to PAE by default but I forget which distro, maybe Ubuntu. Has arch considered PAE by default. It has been discussed repeatedly in the past.

Re: [arch-general] / mounted ro after update

2012-09-21 Thread Guus Snijders
Op 21 sep. 2012 06:46 schreef Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net het volgende: What's a good size number for a /boot partition? Needs to be large enough kernel updates don't break the computer if possible or a reasonable estimate to that end. Let's say 250 MB. Small enough that you don't

Re: [arch-general] / mounted ro after update

2012-09-21 Thread Guus Snijders
Op 21 sep. 2012 09:00 schreef P .NIKOLIC p.nikol...@btinternet.com het volgende: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:26:54 +0100 P .NIKOLIC p.nikol...@btinternet.com wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:07:55 +0100 Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: all disc ID's are correct so what has been

Re: [arch-general] [OT] Sending a laptop to the repair shop

2012-09-21 Thread Guus Snijders
Op 21 sep. 2012 03:47 schreef Martín Cigorraga m...@archlinux.us het volgende: On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 20:38 -0400, Manolo Martínez wrote: Do you create a new user for them, you give them your user and password

Re: [arch-general] Can't see all my memory

2012-09-21 Thread Guillermo Leira
-Mensaje original- De: arch-general [mailto:arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org] En nombre de Ralf Mardorf Enviado el: viernes, 21 de septiembre de 2012 14:49 Para: General Discussion about Arch Linux Asunto: Re: [arch-general] Can't see all my memory On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 16:17

Re: [arch-general] NetworkManager update - problematic for ipw2200

2012-09-21 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 6:05 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:32 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: I was away for a few days but this evening returned and updated a laptop which has ipw2200 wireless - and the updates included NetworkManager

Re: [arch-general] sleep + lid events + kde = new problem - solved

2012-09-21 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/21/2012 10:39 AM, mike cloaked wrote: Any chance you may have a setting that could be changed in the KDE power management settings window to get this working again? Spot on - in the KDE power management - there was a section called 'activities' - it was selected - deselecting and

Re: [arch-general] libffado update

2012-09-21 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 21 September 2012 21:36, Aapo Vienamo aapo.vien...@iki.fi wrote: Hello. I noticed that libffado was updated recently. It looks like that the new version of libffado is incompatible with the version of jack in the arch repos. To demonstrate the problem: aapo ~ $ jackd -dfirewire

Re: [arch-general] Can't see all my memory

2012-09-21 Thread Dave Warren
On 9/21/2012 11:55, Guillermo Leira wrote: Well... Solved. It is a new motherboard, and it has a setting (that I've never seen in any other one) that says Memory Remap Feature. I don't understand that a motherboard has a default option that actually should appear as Waste half of your memory.

Re: [arch-general] sleep + lid events + kde = new problem - solved

2012-09-21 Thread Martín Cigorraga
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote: On 09/21/2012 10:39 AM, mike cloaked wrote: All is well!! Did you mean All Izz Well!? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-LltgOtFSg (from the movie Three Idiots, a very great one) I love Bollywood!

[arch-general] finally got a talking archlinux installed!

2012-09-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
Creation of a separate /boot partition helped. I did it with syslinux, and have partition structure of /dev/sda1 /boot 50MB /dev/sda2 swap 1024MB /dev/sda3 /mnt 15440MB and /dev/sda4 /home remainder of the disk. Since in this configuration, /dev/sda3 correctly points to /root I left it alone

Re: [arch-general] finally got a talking archlinux installed!

2012-09-21 Thread Martín Cigorraga
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.netwrote: Creation of a separate /boot partition helped. I did it with syslinux, and have partition structure of /dev/sda1 /boot 50MB /dev/sda2 swap 1024MB /dev/sda3 /mnt 15440MB and /dev/sda4 /home remainder of the disk.