Re: [arch-general] KMS and external monitor resolution

2010-01-12 Thread André Ramaciotti da Silva
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 01:50:02AM +0100, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > I'm sorry if it has already been discussed here, but I couldn't find > > anything with the keywords I was using. I even had a bad time choosing > > this message subject. > > xrandr ? > > > I bought a new, bigger monitor to us

[arch-general] KMS and external monitor resolution

2010-01-12 Thread André Ramaciotti da Silva
Hi all, I'm sorry if it has already been discussed here, but I couldn't find anything with the keywords I was using. I even had a bad time choosing this message subject. I bought a new, bigger monitor to use with my notebook. I've already configured X, but sometimes I like to write on the tty (th

Re: [arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

2009-12-03 Thread André Ramaciotti da Silva
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 05:05:18PM -0200, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:53 PM, André Ramaciotti da Silva > wrote: > > I believe these aren't the 'other IPC mechanisms' they were talking about. > > What about FIFOs and sockets? >

Re: [arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

2009-12-03 Thread André Ramaciotti da Silva
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 04:42:25PM -0200, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: > (...) > 4. There are other IPC mechanisms > > Yes, there are. But I think that each one has some drawbacks too. > CORBA, for example, is too heavy for simple use (Gnome developers can > tell a good story about that). XMLRPC

Re: [arch-general] conclusion: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises

2009-12-02 Thread André Ramaciotti da Silva
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 01:54:10AM +0530, Raghavendra Prabhu wrote: > One thing I don't understand here is - why people crib that package B should > not have feature X. If you don't want that, ABS is for that. There are > plenty of packages which have additional dependencies like that mplayer(like

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-29 Thread André Ramaciotti da Silva
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 01:36:15PM -0200, André Ramaciotti da Silva wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:06:34PM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > > Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:16:46 -0200 > > schrieb André Ramaciotti da Silva : > > > > > I know, I know, they always come back.

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread André Ramaciotti da Silva
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:06:34PM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:16:46 -0200 > schrieb André Ramaciotti da Silva : > > > I know, I know, they always come back. :P > > My Arch installation is still in my HD, just in case. > > > > About disk us

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread André Ramaciotti da Silva
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 02:49:19PM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:17:13 -0200 > schrieb André Ramaciotti da Silva : > > > I don't want to flame, but that's why I recently moved to Gentoo. > > Arch is one of the best distros I've used, but w

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread André Ramaciotti da Silva
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 02:31:37PM +0200, Ionut Biru wrote: > On 11/23/2009 02:24 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > > Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:54:49 +0100 > > schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > > > >> Some depends are made for convenience, you can build the packages > >> with ABS without those depends, if they don'

Re: [arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread André Ramaciotti da Silva
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:23:11PM +0200, Priit Kivisoo wrote: > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:14 PM, André Ramaciotti da Silva < > andre.ramacio...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thank you Thomas and Xavier. > > > > I just got a little worried though. Is there any reason for

Re: [arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread André Ramaciotti da Silva
Thank you Thomas and Xavier. I just got a little worried though. Is there any reason for user_xattr not being enabled by default?

[arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread André Ramaciotti da Silva
Hi all, I'm thinking of different ways to organize my files and xattrs seem a nice, standardized way to do so (don't ask me exactly what I'm trying to do, for I only have a slight idea). The problem is: I can't use them at all. I'm using the default kernel, which, according to /proc/config.gz has

Re: [arch-general] CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set

2009-10-22 Thread André Ramaciotti da Silva
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 06:15:45PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:54 PM, André Ramaciotti da Silva > wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:06:32PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> Sascha Siegel schrieb: > >> >Hi, > >> > &

Re: [arch-general] CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set

2009-10-22 Thread André Ramaciotti da Silva
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:06:32PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Sascha Siegel schrieb: > >Hi, > > > >can someone tell my whats the reason for building the arch-kernel > >with "# CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set"? > > > >Thank you! > > Optimizing for size sacrifices performance. Read the gc