Re: [arch-general] Microsoft keyboard and unworking keys

2010-02-24 Thread Andre Ramaciotti
Celti writes: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 15:38, Andre Ramaciotti > wrote: >> Celti writes: >> >>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 15:23, Celti wrote: >>>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 15:19, Andre Ramaciotti >>>> wrote: >>>>> Daenyth Bla

Re: [arch-general] Microsoft keyboard and unworking keys

2010-02-24 Thread Andre Ramaciotti
Celti writes: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 15:23, Celti wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 15:19, Andre Ramaciotti >> wrote: >>> Daenyth Blank writes: >>>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 16:34, Andre Ramaciotti >>>> wrote: >>>>>

Re: [arch-general] Microsoft keyboard and unworking keys

2010-02-24 Thread Andre Ramaciotti
Celti writes: > Likely they don't have a kernel mapping, so X doesn't even see them. > You'll need to get their scancodes with `showkeys`, and map them to > keycodes with `setkeycodes`, while out of X. > > ~celti As I said, they don't show a keycode on 'showkeys'. I think I need a hack at a lower

Re: [arch-general] Microsoft keyboard and unworking keys

2010-02-24 Thread Andre Ramaciotti
Daenyth Blank writes: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 16:34, Andre Ramaciotti > wrote: >> as in "they don't show any keycode >> on 'xev' or 'showkey'". > > It sounds like those keys are broken. It should be sending something. Is it > ol

[arch-general] Microsoft keyboard and unworking keys

2010-02-24 Thread Andre Ramaciotti
Hi all, I have a Microsoft keyboard (*hides*) and some of its multimedia keys don't work (most of them do, though), as in "they don't show any keycode on 'xev' or 'showkey'". I don't really think I'll get them to work, but I'll ask anyway: is there any hack to make them work? It's a Digital Media

Re: [arch-general] library version conflict -- how does Arch solve this ?

2010-02-07 Thread Andre Ramaciotti
f...@kokkinizita.net writes: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 11:29:28AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > >> >I find it extremely strange that updating a library >> >removes the original - never seen this on any other >> >distro. Nor is there any need to do this. >> >> We only package the latest stable versi

Re: [arch-general] library version conflict -- how does Arch solve this ?

2010-02-07 Thread Andre Ramaciotti
f...@kokkinizita.net writes: > Hello all, > > Today I installed Latex (texlive). Doing this installed > new versions of libpng and libjpeg, and this broke emacs, > xv and gnuplot (and maybe others I haven't discovered yet). > > I was able to make xv work again by removing and re-installing > it. T

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-02 Thread Andre Ramaciotti
Damjan Georgievski writes: >>> >>> - download new packages >>> >>> - update db >>> >>> - delete old packages >>> >>> >>> >>> from http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror#how >>> ... >>> * MUST perform a 2-stage sync >>> ... >>> Rationale: if archive mirroring is done in a single stage, there will

Re: [arch-general] offlineimap

2009-08-31 Thread Andre Ramaciotti da Silva
At Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:30:50 +0200, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > > On 31/08/2009, joz...@gmx.com wrote: > > I can't find out the way to start offlineimap automatically each time I > > start KDE. I tryed with ./kde4/Autostart and shell script but it didn't > > work. > > Is there any other way to run i

Re: [arch-general] A little weirdness at boot time

2009-08-31 Thread Andre Ramaciotti da Silva
At Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:07:36 +0300, Roman Kyrylych wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 09:03, Tom K wrote: > > SImplest, most Arch-like solution is to load the modules in the required > > order in the rc.conf MODULES array. > > I believe this no longer works. MODULES are not processed in the orde

Re: [arch-general] A little weirdness at boot time

2009-08-29 Thread Andre Ramaciotti da Silva
At Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:51:46 +0900, Juan Diego wrote: > > about the network card problem, have you tried adding: > > QUIRKS="predown" > > to your netcfg config file I'll test it, thanks.

[arch-general] A little weirdness at boot time

2009-08-29 Thread Andre Ramaciotti da Silva
Hi all! This email is divided in two parts: a curiosity and a problem. They are somewhat related, so I'm writing both together. The curiosity: Since I've installed Arch Linux in this notebook (in March), the time it takes to load the modules highly varies. With the current archinit scripts, it ra

Re: [arch-general] Emacs 23 window resize on startup

2009-07-30 Thread andre . ramaciotti
At Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:34:25 +0200, Christian Himpel wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 15:37, wrote: > > At Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:15:46 +0200, > > Edgar Kalkowski wrote: > >> > >> Hello list! > >> > >> I know this is not an Arch specific question but I thought maybe something > >> similar occurre

Re: [arch-general] Emacs 23 window resize on startup

2009-07-30 Thread andre . ramaciotti
At Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:15:46 +0200, Edgar Kalkowski wrote: > > Hello list! > > I know this is not an Arch specific question but I thought maybe something > similar occurred to someone here and he knows a solution. > > I just updated to Emacs 23 which has new fancy font code with antialiasing >