Re: [arch-general] udev slow to start up

2011-01-16 Thread Alexander Lam
(16) cdb: 85 08 0e 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ec > 00 > ATA pass through (16): transport error: Driver_status=0x0e [invalid, > SUGGEST_OK] > > ATA pass through (16) failed > > > Basically, I'm out of ideas. Please tell me the drive is not faulty :( > > > > -- Alexander Lam

Re: [arch-general] kernel 2.6.37 BKL

2011-01-05 Thread Alexander Lam
or compatibility in kernel26 >> is fine IMO. Those who need it disabled for specific reasons (the one I >> can think of is task latency for audio) should already be used to >> compiling patched kernels, so it wouldn't be a big deal for now. > > +1 for patched kernels fo

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] make-3.82-2

2010-09-27 Thread Alexander Lam
08.2/00080.html > > As I said, any remaining issues are more than likely the fault of the > software being built... > > Allan > I'm also having problems with the kernel PKGBUILD not respecting the -j multiple jobs flag... -- Alexander Lam

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] hdparm-9.32-1

2010-09-26 Thread Alexander Lam
wski > Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) > http://www.archlinux.org > tp...@archlinux.org > -- Alexander Lam

[arch-general] Do formulas work in Go-Openoffice?

2010-08-30 Thread Alexander Lam
save the document (as odt) and try to reopen it. Is this happening to anybody else? -- Alexander Lam

Re: [arch-general] how to listen to internet radio?

2010-07-29 Thread Alexander Lam
or instance: >> >> $ mplayer http://www.radio.ufscar.br:8000/radioufscar_96.ogg >> >> Sometimes you will need to use the flag -playlist >> >> -- >> Rafael Beraldo >> http://cabaladada.org >> > > how do i get the playlist for shoutcast? > -- Alexander Lam

Re: [arch-general] nVidia MCP79

2010-07-18 Thread Alexander Lam
asheet.php?datasheet=ALC269 > -- > Rafael Beraldo > http://cabaladada.org > -- Alexander Lam

Re: [arch-general] nVidia MCP79

2010-07-18 Thread Alexander Lam
Hello, On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Rafael Beraldo wrote: > 2010/7/15 Alexander Lam > >> Sorry for the late response, I've been away. >> I've actually been trying to make my own ALC268 louder, so I've read >> up on hda architecture :P >> (I hav

Re: [arch-general] nVidia MCP79

2010-07-15 Thread Alexander Lam
wondering if the sound isn't just that loud. > > -- > Rafael Beraldo > http://cabaladada.org Anyway, I highly recommend using reading http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Help_To_Debug_Intel_HDA and using the HDA-Analyzer utility mentioned there - you can mess with your codecs manually to try to get louder sound. -- Alexander Lam

Re: [arch-general] nVidia MCP79

2010-07-11 Thread Alexander Lam
is_ low and there is no solution or I'm just crazy. > > -- > Rafael Beraldo > http://cabaladada.org > does the nvidia MCP79 utilize the intel hda protocol? -- Alexander Lam

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-15 Thread Alexander Lam
ter than going back to the days of > 'proprietary plugins, and codecs'. > > -- > Caleb Cushing > > http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com > -- Alexander Lam

Re: [arch-general] Checkgmail doesn't work with perl 5.12 from testing

2010-05-28 Thread Alexander Lam
packages that use > libperl.so. Last year the list of such pkgs was: > > F > Hi all, Did this perl rebuild get lost or something? (I currently have perl on my IgnorePkg list because glib-perl hasn't been updated for 5.12 yet) -- Alexander Lam

Re: [arch-general] intel video & suspend

2010-05-26 Thread Alexander Lam
with older kernel versions on the Fujitsu, as this is a recent > install. > > Sara > > You should try looking into vbetool. It can turn the backlight on if necessary. -- Alexander Lam

Re: [arch-general] Script to check monitor blank state

2010-05-24 Thread Alexander Lam
script for this, although I may end up writing one because I want similar functionality (just after xx minutes, suspend, not on screen blank). But, what you can do is install xscreensaver. xscreensaver-command -watch can be used to monitor the screen saver state (which may be just blank your desktop) and thus control the script. -- Alexander Lam

Re: [arch-general] troubles with resume after hibernate

2010-05-15 Thread Alexander Lam
I've known about this issue, but worked around it by not loading i915 before the resume from hibernate occurs - this is done by not including i915.ko in the initrd and not building i915 into the kernel. Additionally, I have highmem off (netbook with 1GB memory), but I don't know if that affects an

Re: [arch-general] Is preload really working ??

2010-05-06 Thread Alexander Lam
mozilla /dev/shm/moz > ln -s /dev/shm/moz .mozilla > > There was some difference, but not too much as expected. > > -- > Nilesh Govindarajan > Site & Server Administrator > www.itech7.com > मेरा भारत महान ! > मम भारत: महत्तम भवतु ! > You should look into the Vacuum

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] lts kernel bump to .32 series?

2010-05-05 Thread Alexander Lam
so I rolled back and went from .31 to .33 when it was released. For .32 did you try setting i915's powersave parameter to 0? -- Alexander Lam

Re: [arch-general] Emerald crashing on theme change or edit in Gnome

2010-04-11 Thread Alexander Lam
me-manager > just disappears into thin air. A restart restores emerald without error as > well. Same issue here - compiz standalone setup -- Alexander Lam

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-intel and KMS

2010-02-11 Thread Alexander Lam
gt; catwell > vga=: example: video=VGA-1:800x600 video=LVDS-1:1280x800 -- Alexander Lam

Re: [arch-general] pacman too slow on reboot

2010-02-10 Thread Alexander Lam
guous block on the hard drive, and the hard drive won't have to seek around, greatly increasing throughput. -- Alexander Lam

Re: [arch-general] Pacman trigger

2010-02-06 Thread Alexander Lam
Actually, if customizepkg handles PKGBUILDS, you could just add a sed command to the PKGBUILD to change the .install file. (see the kernel26 PKGBUILD for an example) > > (I submitted a bunch of changes to customizepkg-new a few months ago but > I don't think they've been folded in yet.) > > -- > Jim Pryor > prof...@jimpryor.net > -- Alexander Lam

Re: [arch-general] Firefox 3.5.7 not support eh !??

2010-01-31 Thread Alexander Lam
stupid, you should >> complain about it and advise them to check for a gecko engine version. >> >> > you can also use an add-ons like this: > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 > > -- > Il "Software Libero" è una questione di libertà, non di prezzo. > or you could go into the Firefox config (URL: about:config) and change the value of general.useragent.extra.firefox to Firefox/3.5.7 -- Alexander Lam

Re: [arch-general] dynex USB microphone extremely quiet

2010-01-31 Thread Alexander Lam
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Samuel Baldwin wrote: > > The topic says it all. I've got a new microphone, and whereas it > works, it's rather quiet when I try to record it wtih audacity. Most > people on skype complain that my voice is rather quiet as well, and I > have to basically put the mic

Re: [arch-general] Netcfg after resume from suspend

2010-01-29 Thread Alexander Lam
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > Hi all, I'm using netcfg and recently have been noticing the following. > > When I resume from suspend I call 'netcfg home' which tries to connect > to my home's wifi network. ESSID and WEP key are correctly set. It > exist with a 'could not obta

Re: [arch-general] Startup scripts

2010-01-15 Thread Alexander Lam
Tom, I just tried Control-C during a regularly scheduled fsck on my system and it stopped the fsck and booted normally, so that should have worked for you.

[arch-general] Fwd: [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.32-1

2009-12-12 Thread Alexander Lam
> > Sweet :D > actually, the thread is dead silent since my melt-your-cpu-git-bisecting result but I keep the faith :) in the meantime, attached is the patch to revert this commit if anyone is interested (it's not a proper bugfix, just a revert patch) -- Alexander Lam no_flickr.patch Description: Binary data

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.32-1

2009-12-12 Thread Alexander Lam
t-your-cpu-git-bisecting result but I keep the faith :) in the > meantime, attached is the patch to revert this commit if anyone is > interested (it's not a proper bugfix, just a revert patch) > -- Alexander Lam

Re: [arch-general] Encrypted ram disk?

2009-10-28 Thread Alexander Lam
Besides, even with traditional filesystem encryption, the encryption key stays in RAM.

Re: [arch-general] S3-level ACPI suspend

2009-10-26 Thread Alexander Lam
My netbook (Intel Atom 1.6Ghz, 1GB ram) comes up from suspend-to-ram in about 3 seconds. I use pmutils to suspend. -- Alexander Lam

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup

2009-10-18 Thread Alexander Lam
laptop-mode by itself won't do it, but laptop-mode-tools will. However, some users (such as I) see laptop-mode-tools as bloat because it comes with all this other stuff for controlling other aspects of power consumption.

Re: [arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?

2009-07-26 Thread Alexander Lam
an installation but is smaller B <- The disk that that you want to put the installation on if you dd A onto B, B will get the partition structure from A and appear smaller. However, you can edit the partition sizes using gparted like Dan said, and make the partitions fill up the whole B disk. -- Alexander Lam

Re: [arch-general] speakers don't turn off when headphones inserted

2009-06-02 Thread Alexander Lam
) > > Anyone got a solution for this yet? I can't seem to remember if I ever > made this sound card (I usually don't install sound drivers, I don't > use them that much) to work on Linux, but I can't remember having this > problem before. > > Regards, > Alexandre Moreira > -- Alexander Lam ATCS 2010 AIM: lambchops468 GTALK: lambchop...@gmail.com Archlinux User -