Re: [arch-general] couple of log messages from kernel 3.2.2

2012-01-30 Thread Bernardo Barros
I'm also getting warnings with a ThinkPad W510.

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Bernardo Barros
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Jan Steffens jan.steff...@gmail.com wrote: You seem to possess the misconception that the existence of PA on a system is somehow in conflict with pro-audio software. It's true that professional users typically make some compromises to have the best system for

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Bernardo Barros
^^^battery life

Re: [arch-general] [Information] Outdated rtirq scripts don't work with current kernel-rt

2012-01-21 Thread Bernardo Barros
AUR is outdated for a *very* long time... Try the version in archaudio svn or archstudio. pacman -U http://bbarros.com/archstudio/x86_64/rtirq-20111007-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Re: [arch-general] Unofficial User Repositories

2012-01-15 Thread Bernardo Barros
`archaudio-preview' is pretty stable, `archaudio-production' is almost empty. I think the reason for that is people who use `-preview' are quite. They have some advantages over AUR. You can group install all plugins (ladspa-plugins, lv2-plugins etc), and they are maintained by the same group of

Re: [arch-general] Unofficial User Repositories

2012-01-15 Thread Bernardo Barros
I mean `quiet'

Re: [arch-general] New LTS kernel soon ?

2012-01-10 Thread Bernardo Barros
Looks like 3.0 is our new LTS 3.0.y - this is the new longterm kernel release, it will be maintained for 2 years at the minimum by me. 2.6.32.y - this is the previous longterm kernel release. It is approaching it's end-of-life, and I think I only have another

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-18 Thread Bernardo Barros
Just try to support Haskell Platform in extra/community. That's enough.

[arch-general] Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] Announce: The Haskell Platform 2011.4

2011-12-17 Thread Bernardo Barros
-- Forwarded message -- From: Don Stewart don...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:04 PM Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Announce: The Haskell Platform 2011.4 To: hask...@haskell.org, haskell-cafe haskell-c...@haskell.org, haskell-platf...@projects.haskell.org

[arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-17 Thread Bernardo Barros
Haskell platform was released with the latest stable GHC (7.0.4 of course). Guys, what's happening with haskell support in Arch? Xmonad, and now GHC and lots of packages in the supported repos are not keeping update with upstream.

Re: [arch-general] audio realtime, was: /usr/bin/X: No such file

2011-12-11 Thread Bernardo Barros
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: grep audio /media/archlinux/etc/security/limits.conf @audio          -       rtprio          65 @audio          -       nice           -10 @audio          -       memlock         4 A recent jack update sets

Re: [arch-general] audio realtime, was: /usr/bin/X: No such file

2011-12-11 Thread Bernardo Barros
download from AUR and adapt the packages with your custom options you can then compile your custom linux and ardour packages yourself and install with pacman, that is safer then `make installing`

Re: [arch-general] pacman new generation

2011-11-22 Thread Bernardo Barros
If I still may: roll-back and reproducible configuration was already proposed in the past? The idea raised by Nix devs was the a purely functional approach was a way to implement it. Of course people can have similar ideas with other techniques. If it a very practical question because I'm sure

Re: [arch-general] pacman new generation

2011-11-22 Thread Bernardo Barros
A layer above pacman taking advantage of ARM?

[arch-general] pacman new generation

2011-11-21 Thread Bernardo Barros
Perhaps the developers want to take a look at this distribution.It is reported that is written in a `purely functional package management' and tries to be a highly safe OS, where `upgrading a system is as reliable as reinstalling from scratch'. http://nixos.org/nixos/ Because the files of a

Re: [arch-general] pacman new generation

2011-11-21 Thread Bernardo Barros
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Thorsten Töpper atsut...@freethoughts.de wrote: Seriously, it's probably meant like this but your mail reads like a Hey why don't you learn $INSERT_LANG_HERE and rewrite your whole system. Hello Thorsten, no, you got it wrong. It's about ideas not languages.

Re: [arch-general] pacman new generation

2011-11-21 Thread Bernardo Barros
Those guys wrote their ideas down here for those interested: http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/nixos-jfp-final.pdf

Re: [arch-general] pacman new generation

2011-11-21 Thread Bernardo Barros
dpkg-reconfigure ? No.. it's not that at all. In fact pacman already have some of those ideas, it tries to be safe when it keeps old package in /var/cache/pacman/pkg, but Nix goes further and tries to make sense of all those changes in the system. I just see some other ideas that could be

Re: [arch-general] pacman new generation

2011-11-21 Thread Bernardo Barros
Yes, But also the idea of reproducible system configurations is also interesting. You could say, hey, this configuration will work for this because it was tested in such and such a way. And after a complex upgrade you could roll-back to a particular configuration that happened to work very well

Re: [arch-general] pacman new generation

2011-11-21 Thread Bernardo Barros
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Bernardo Barros bernardobarr...@gmail.com wrote: And after a complex upgrade you could roll-back to a particular configuration that happened to work very well for you in a recent past. They do it from grub even if the kernel wasn't update. I agree that's odd

Re: [arch-general] Automatic File Associations Alloting

2011-11-21 Thread Bernardo Barros
In KDE I don't have this problem. It happens with xmonad and openbox. pcmanfm can configure that too, but automatic picks the last installed package that handle this type of file, and wine is always the last thing I install in the system..

[arch-general] Why ghc 7.2.2 ?

2011-11-19 Thread Bernardo Barros
Hello, Why ghc 7.2.2 is in [testing]? People are planing to include it in [extra]? It's a feature preview release. It is not a stable release as far as I know. The haskell platform is scheduled to be released late 2011 with the next stable version.

Re: [arch-general] Why ghc 7.2.2 ?

2011-11-19 Thread Bernardo Barros
I just find it strange.. But he is aware that ghc 7.2.2 is not tagged as stable but as feature preview, right?

Re: [arch-general] Why ghc 7.2.2 ?

2011-11-19 Thread Bernardo Barros
I mean, you can get the feeling that it won't break anything, but we will have to do a lot of testing before. At least 2 weeks, right? Maybe a month? And when those extensive testing phase will end, it will be time to the stable release already... (like in one month?) I don't see the point.

Re: [arch-general] Automatic File Associations Alloting

2011-11-19 Thread Bernardo Barros
text files opening automatically with wine is really a VERY annoying thing...

Re: [arch-general] Why ghc 7.2.2 ?

2011-11-19 Thread Bernardo Barros
This 7.2.2 release is intended to be more of a technology preview than normal GHC stable branches. In particular, it supports a significantly improved version of DPH, as well as new features such as compiler plugins and safe Haskell. The design of these new features may evolve as we get more

Re: [arch-general] Why ghc 7.2.2 ?

2011-11-19 Thread Bernardo Barros
I believe that's the reason that haskell platform is waiting, and I think arch should wait a couple of weeks too... On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Bernardo Barros bernardobarr...@gmail.com wrote: This 7.2.2 release is intended to be more of a technology preview than normal GHC stable branches

Re: [arch-general] Why ghc 7.2.2 ?

2011-11-19 Thread Bernardo Barros
I read the other thread in arch-haskell, but I didn't see a reason for that. I don't understand why it conflicts with the 'arch philosophy' since upstream is telling us it is not ready yet... Of course you can test it! That's why it was released, but the [testing] repository is for stuff that

Re: [arch-general] Why ghc 7.2.2 ?

2011-11-19 Thread Bernardo Barros
OK! I agree with what is on the first e-mail from [arch-haskell]. Vesa idea is quite good. I quote here: Future== The actions I'm about to do are following: - remove haskell-platform and all its libs from extra - only keep ghc in extra- alex, happy and cabal-install and the

Re: [arch-general] Why ghc 7.2.2 ?

2011-11-19 Thread Bernardo Barros
Anyway, I'm testing it right now, let's see how it goes =)

Re: [arch-general] Monitoring changes to [core], [extra], [community]

2011-10-28 Thread Bernardo Barros
Or even better, write a haskell program to p0arse the data and to that =))

[arch-general] Distorted sound with extra/vlc 1.1.11-4

2011-09-10 Thread Bernardo Barros
Last VLC package is giving me distorted sounds, not happening with vlc-1.1.7-6 from http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/x86_64/vlc-1.1.7-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Or with *any other* program installed in my computer, just VLC after version 1.1.7-6 Anyone experiencing this bug?

Re: [arch-general] Distorted sound with extra/vlc 1.1.11-4

2011-09-10 Thread Bernardo Barros
Yeah, it is *just* VLC, that's why I sent the email. I will see if it disappears eventually.

[arch-general] Fwd: Corrected tarballs for Emacs 23.2 and 23.3.

2011-08-04 Thread Bernardo Barros
-- Forwarded message -- From: Chong Yidong c...@stupidchicken.com Date: Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 1:05 PM Subject: Corrected tarballs for Emacs 23.2 and 23.3. To: info-gnu-em...@gnu.org GNU Emacs 23.2 and 23.3 were released absent grammar files from which the parsers used in its CEDET

[arch-general] Not a good time for ProAudio work? WAS: Panic - no sound devices after upgrade

2011-07-20 Thread Bernardo Barros
All those issues regarding sound cards and lv2 plug-ins right now. This all mean it will take time until Ardour3 (stable) come out and udev fixes and updates? I tried to figure out the differences between my fedora and arch boxes, I cound not find an easy explanation why the firewire soundcard

Re: [arch-general] Not a good time for ProAudio work? WAS: Panic - no sound devices after upgrade

2011-07-20 Thread Bernardo Barros
Hi Tom, Thanks for the reply! Maybe it's not udev because the issue is not that the soundcard does not show up, it actually does. The problem is that JACK does not work with it. And also I downgrade udev at the time. The problem should be a fine-tuning somewhere At the time Fedora 15 was using

Re: [arch-general] Panic - no sound devices after upgrade

2011-07-19 Thread Bernardo Barros
And I'm still trying to find out why my FireWire/FFADO (MOTU UltraLite) works on Fedora and not on Arch... Arch udev mysteries...

Re: [arch-general] Archlinux is for me

2011-07-09 Thread Bernardo Barros
Apple is just about to open a big (computer/ipad/i-xxx) factory in Brazil. It is growing and invading various niches here, which is equally threatening to freedom... But now we have ArchAudio that will prove an strong alternative in the fields of Music and ProAudio too! =)

Re: [arch-general] gnome2.32

2011-07-05 Thread Bernardo Barros
Sergio! Maybe try xfce or lxde with then? It will be clever because gnome2 will not give you updates anymore, and will be harder and harder to keep things working in the long run. (Unless someone forked gnome2 and is working on that right now) Specially xfce is very closed to gnome2, and maybe

Re: [arch-general] Systemd! [WAS: arch-dev-public] Welcoming Dave Reisner to the dev staff

2011-06-21 Thread Bernardo Barros
2011/6/21 Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com: Systemd to come? =) kernel-lts 2.6.32 is compatible with systemd anyway?

Re: [arch-general] Systemd! [WAS: arch-dev-public] Welcoming Dave Reisner to the dev staff

2011-06-21 Thread Bernardo Barros
here too :-)

Re: [arch-general] Anybody else have problems with the new Nvidia drivers (275.09.07-1)

2011-06-17 Thread Bernardo Barros
works fine here with thinkpad - NVIDIA GPU Quadro FX 880M - latest linux and nvidia on kde. tested on rekonq and chromium.

Re: [arch-general] Anybody else have problems with the new Nvidia drivers (275.09.07-1)

2011-06-17 Thread Bernardo Barros
*before* nvidia update I had very strange artifacts and freezes with lxterminal. now it's all right with all kernels and applications.

Re: [arch-general] TeXLive 2011 pretest

2011-06-14 Thread Bernardo Barros
anyone got problems with texlive 2011 usage so far?

Re: [arch-general] /dev/snd/seq: Group permission lost

2011-06-01 Thread Bernardo Barros
2011/6/1 XeCycle xecy...@gmail.com Recently I need to chmod it manually after reboot. It's now 600, belong to root, group audio, I think 660 is better. here too... very very very annoying. that was last udev update.

[arch-general] Lyx 1.6 vs. 2.0

2011-05-31 Thread Bernardo Barros
Hi, Is there a reason not to update Lyx 1.6 to 2.0? Or at least create two packages lyx1 and lyx? Is there known bugs there? Best! Bernardo

[arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'

2011-05-25 Thread Bernardo Barros
Hi there, There are rumors that the next version number of the Linux Kernel is going to be 3.0. Since we choosed 'kernel26' as the package name, we will have to modify it anyway. Why not just 'linux 3.0'? Just an idea.. since we have the fellow project 'Arch Hurd' providing 'hurd' as an

Re: [arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'

2011-05-25 Thread Bernardo Barros
If the 3 will stand the the third decade (as the idea is to make a system based on time not features), in 10 years we would have to rename it again to 'kernel4'. :-)

Re: [arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'

2011-05-25 Thread Bernardo Barros
Just 'linux' is the most pure and KISS choice. :-)

[arch-general] DropBox problem

2011-05-17 Thread Bernardo Barros
Hi, Recently I am having problems with DropBox. I have it installed (1.1.31-1)and there is indeed a file named /opt/dropbox/dropbox, but the daemon seems not to find it: ~/ dropboxd /usr/bin/dropboxd: line 10: /opt/dropbox/dropbox: No such file or directory That's only me or other people

Re: [arch-general] DropBox problem

2011-05-17 Thread Bernardo Barros
2011/5/17 Cédric Girard girard.ced...@gmail.com: There is no such things as DropBox in the official repo. Please post to aur-general instead. Sorry. (Tell me if there is a better / better-supported alternative.)

Re: [arch-general] DropBox problem

2011-05-17 Thread Bernardo Barros
2011/5/17 Ángel Velásquez an...@archlinux.org: And answering your question, I don't know if there is any kind of alternative worst or better on the repos (I don't use dropbox or similar), the fact is, you are asking about unofficial packages here, and probably you won't get many lights.

Re: [arch-general] Gnome3 and Gnome2

2011-04-10 Thread Bernardo Barros
2011/4/10 Nephyrin Zey nephy...@doublezen.net: Gnome 3 is, frankly, not ready yet. It's a bit like the original KDE4 situation - it has promise, but also serious rough edges (20% CPU usage when moving the mouse, complete no-go with binary nvidia drivers, ...), and is lacking basic features

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] GNOME3 in [testing]

2011-04-08 Thread Bernardo Barros
Hi guys, Can't pulseaudio be moved to optdepends? Best, Bernardo

[arch-general] Gnome 3 and gcc 4.6 in Fedora 15

2011-04-05 Thread Bernardo Barros
I just look at the list of new Features for Fedora 15.. It will have Gnome 3 and gcc 4.6 and a bunch of other things. This means that those projects are reaching a stable phase now? They are currently considered unstable and/or in testing on Arch Any predictions on the current and near future

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3 and gcc 4.6 in Fedora 15

2011-04-05 Thread Bernardo Barros
2011/4/5 Rémy Oudompheng remyoudomph...@gmail.com Fedora 15 has not been released and is in Alpha phase, which certainly does not mean it can be considered as stable. I know, but they committed themselves to release it soon

Re: [arch-general] Display Flicker with 2.6.37.5-1 nvidia 270.30-3 (dual head)

2011-03-28 Thread Bernardo Barros
With 2.6.38.1 and nvidia 270.30 I get a very strange artifact at the start-up of KDE, just about a second when it makes the desktop, then everything seems normal. With OpenBox it's all good here.

[arch-general] Thinkpad W510 Config: ScreenTouch

2011-03-25 Thread Bernardo Barros
Please, I'd like to know if it is possible to use ThinkPad W510 touchscreen on Linux. I see there are a bunch of kernel modules for touchscreens, but I can't find this information on the Wiki. Cheers, Bernardo

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38-2

2011-03-24 Thread Bernardo Barros
2.6.38.1 is out :-)

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38-1

2011-03-21 Thread Bernardo Barros
I spoke too soon, not sure if it's related, but I had trouble using my USB soundcard Edirol-PCR1. I'll wait next release to test it again.

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38-1

2011-03-19 Thread Bernardo Barros
Just as a side note: I'm using 2.6.38 without problems here, with fair realtime performance btw.

Re: [arch-general] Trinity Running on Arch Linux!

2011-02-16 Thread Bernardo Barros
is your build already with qt4? if not, any idea when this could happen?

[arch-general] PKGBUILD work

2011-02-05 Thread Bernardo Barros
Hey all, How to have access and change PKGBUILD variables? Is there command-line tools for this kind of job, so one could easily check, for example, the version number, change it and update the checksum? thanks a bunch, Bernardo

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD work

2011-02-05 Thread Bernardo Barros
2011/2/5 jesse jaara jesse.ja...@gmail.com: Can't you just open it in nano or vim? Of course... or even better, Emacs. :-) But I'd like to know if I could do something like 'get-pkg-version', so from time to time I could use a script to create a list with the packages and the version numbers.

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD work

2011-02-05 Thread Bernardo Barros
(in case not all of then are installed, then pacman would do it)

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD work

2011-02-05 Thread Bernardo Barros
yep! could you give an example of a bash function that gets the $pkgver from a file?

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD work

2011-02-05 Thread Bernardo Barros
Thank you all.

Re: [arch-general] kernel 2.6.37 BKL

2011-01-05 Thread Bernardo Barros
2011/1/5 Ng Oon-Ee ngoo...@gmail.com: At this point in time leaving it enabled for 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

[arch-general] ArchStudio

2010-12-31 Thread Bernardo Barros
Hello everyone! I set up a repository based on a modified version of ArchAudio, with some of my stuff and lots of PKGBUILDs from AUR's contributors. Hope this helps to update and maintain ArchAudio alive and updated. Just source for now, no binaries. It is a hg repo, so it can also be hosted

Re: [arch-general] ArchStudio

2010-12-31 Thread Bernardo Barros
Thanks Cédric! Also in Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/archstudio/

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-27 Thread Bernardo Barros
My experience is that pulseaudio sometimes works for simple desktop audio. Any serious work with audio it just cause (or potentially cause) problems... (again, just my experience)