Re: [arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install SOLVED

2016-11-28 Thread niya levi via arch-general
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 8:55 PM, niya levi via arch-general > > wrote: > >/is there another entry i should have comment , uncommented or added in > >/>//etc/default/grub to make it permenant ? />/shadrock / > If you change things in /etc/defaul

Re: [arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install

2016-11-28 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 07:55:53PM +, niya levi via arch-general wrote: > my graphics card is a cirrus logic cl-gd5436 pci 1mb vga card > it's loaded automatically, > have tried adding nomodeset by > pressing e at the boot screen with brings me to grub startup file > i added nomodeset to the en

Re: [arch-general] Arch pkg user and group IDs?

2016-11-28 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 11:04:53AM +0100, Hauke Fath wrote: > On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 19:16:56 -0700, Leonid Isaev wrote: > > But out of curiosity, why is it difficult to change user IDs on all files? I > > assume that you control the storage? Isn't it just a chown -R away? For > > example, for our NIS

Re: [arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install

2016-11-28 Thread Martin Kühne via arch-general
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 8:55 PM, niya levi via arch-general wrote: > is there another entry i should have comment , uncommented or added in > /etc/default/grub to make it permenant ? > shadrock If you change things in /etc/default/grub, you have to # grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.chf to make t

Re: [arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install

2016-11-28 Thread niya levi via arch-general
> Just to check, does "locale -c charmap" return UTF-8? If yes, then it seems > there is an issue with your default console font (I assume you didn't put > anything like this on the kernel command line). So, try changing the console > font either by the kernel cmdline or at runtime in a tty console

Re: [arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install

2016-11-28 Thread Alex Theotokatos via arch-general
On 11/28/2016 07:15 PM, Alex Theotokatos wrote: On 11/27/2016 12:36 PM, niya levi via arch-general wrote: sorry i mean the login at the console, it a file server without xorg, display manger etc. shadrock How do you share your files. Samba? Nfs? I'm sorry. Bad reading. I'm off-topic. Sorry

Re: [arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install

2016-11-28 Thread Alex Theotokatos via arch-general
On 11/27/2016 12:36 PM, niya levi via arch-general wrote: sorry i mean the login at the console, it a file server without xorg, display manger etc. shadrock How do you share your files. Samba? Nfs?

[arch-general] GRUB doesn't boot Windows behind Secure Boot

2016-11-28 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Good afternoon, I have been using GRUB for a long time, but I'm having a strange issue. My setup consists of ArchLinux as main OS and Windows 10 and Ubuntu 12.04 as secondary OSes. Turning up Secure Boot in my firmware options results in such an error when chainloading Windows: /EndEntire file pat

Re: [arch-general] Arch pkg user and group IDs?

2016-11-28 Thread Hauke Fath
On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 12:28:23 +0100, Martin Kühne via arch-general wrote: > Hmm, you could do the move per-server, though, at least for the > network services that publicly can report a different UID/GID pair > than is advertised on the file system, which is at least true for NFS. NFSv4, that is. W

Re: [arch-general] Arch pkg user and group IDs?

2016-11-28 Thread Martin Kühne via arch-general
Hmm, you could do the move per-server, though, at least for the network services that publicly can report a different UID/GID pair than is advertised on the file system, which is at least true for NFS. Did you look into that, already? cheers! mar77i

Re: [arch-general] Arch pkg user and group IDs?

2016-11-28 Thread Hauke Fath
On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 19:16:56 -0700, Leonid Isaev wrote: > But out of curiosity, why is it difficult to change user IDs on all files? I > assume that you control the storage? Isn't it just a chown -R away? For > example, for our NIS passwd/shadow map we use 6-digit IDs... Because... users have file

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Moving arduino into [community] important notes

2016-11-28 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Antonio Rojas wrote: > > I thought AUR packages were unsupported. Sure, it is nice to give them a > higher version number when they are moved to the official repos to allow > for a smooth upgrade, but that shouldn't be an enforced rule IMO. And > removing epoch is