[arch-general] kde4 Tip for Desktop Effects "Animation duration" timings

2009-06-18 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
have found the "default" to be incredibly low. Increasing the "Default Animation" to ~270 really help the appearance of the effects. You will need to adjust this value for your hardware, etc.., but I have found ~270 to work well on several boxes. -- David C. Rankin, J.

[arch-general] KDE-unstable - kapps crash on start (konqueror, kmail, etc.)

2009-06-18 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
't know if the Arch developers are interested in me providing the backtraces or not. Let me know if you want them and I will send them in. The remainder of kde43 is working well. Still some quirks, no doubt, but impressive. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLL

Re: [arch-general] Weird OpenOffice Disappearing Menu and Toolbar Text?

2009-06-02 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
+ and the disappearing text stopped. Dunno why the plastik style causes the problem but I have a workable solution now. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] My D-Bus/Hal/PolicyKit Fix - Useful for Admin Users

2009-06-02 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
d and I want removables recognized. I don't care for the elaborate multiuser policies that may apply and be useful, in what? -- 5% of all installs. So you are not totally wrong, I did make good use of the wiki, then politely threw 90% of it out ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D

[arch-general] My D-Bus/Hal/PolicyKit Fix - Useful for Admin Users

2009-06-01 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
ss to all d-bus/hal devices: /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf: /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf: Works fine here. Let me know if you see any real gotchas about this approach. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLL

Re: [arch-general] [radeonhd] [PATCH] PM patches: logic fix, feature, cleaning, memory downclocking

2009-05-28 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Friday 29 May 2009 at approximately 00:01:26 Rafał Miłecki composed: > 2009/5/29 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. : > > Rafał, > > > >        That's what I needed to know. I'm am not familiar with 'git' and > > the > > > > git check

Re: [arch-general] KDE stoped working

2009-05-28 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
t, I'll pick through them and if I get anything other than the normal move .kde4 and force a rebuild of the config, I'll post it here. Good luck, and remember -- File the bug report -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] Koffice help won't work in kde3 - Any suggestions?

2009-05-28 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
"LowPowerModeEngineClock" "14" Enough of the rambling, I'll give kde4 a go. Last question, which is the best way to install it? kdemod or the default kde4 from the Arch repos. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] Network Shutdown Prior to umount on cifs mounts hangs shutdown

2009-05-28 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Tuesday 26 May 2009 at approximately 13:10:04 Jordy van Wolferen composed: > On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 03:58 -0500, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > On or about Friday 22 May 2009 at approximately 02:12:18 Biru Ionut composed: > > > David C. Ranki

Re: [arch-general] calender pgm

2009-05-22 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Friday 22 May 2009 at approximately 00:01:57 Baho Utot composed: > On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 22:56 -0500, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > On or about Wednesday 20 May 2009 at approximately 07:20:10 pm Gerardo > > > > Exequiel Pozzi composed: > > >

Re: [arch-general] Network Shutdown Prior to umount on cifs mounts hangs shutdown

2009-05-22 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Friday 22 May 2009 at approximately 02:12:18 Biru Ionut composed: > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > Listmates, > > > > I am experiencing a hang on shutdown with Arch every time I don't > > manually unmount any samba/cifs shares before shutt

[arch-general] Network Shutdown Prior to umount on cifs mounts hangs shutdown

2009-05-22 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
efore the network shuts down? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] calender pgm

2009-05-21 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
it is truly fantastic. You can then access your calendar, contacts, etc. from your browser or from kontact/kmail in kde. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] libdrm stuck at 2.4.9

2009-05-21 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd radeonhd/ cd radeonhd/ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr make (*as root*) make install (REBOOT) **The radeon driver is notorius for leaving bits of itself in memory even after rmmod and modprobe..., so just reboot. -- David C. Ra

Re: [arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.

2009-05-21 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Wednesday 20 May 2009 at approximately 04:00:48 am bardo composed: > 2009/5/20 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. : > > On or about Tuesday 19 May 2009 at approximately 03:33:03 bardo composed: > >> 2009/5/18 David C

[arch-general] :: Starting acpid -- acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: Device or resource busy

2009-05-20 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
[FAIL] What's the trick with acpid? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] Building local repo - eliminating dups - why some new x86_64?

2009-05-20 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
, then wouldn't the "Which duplicate problem" still apply from the proxy?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.

2009-05-19 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Tuesday 19 May 2009 at approximately 03:33:03 bardo composed: > 2009/5/18 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. : > >                 > >                         > >                 > > I think this may be your problem. I searched some time ago and found > out

Re: [arch-general] Koffice help won't work in kde3 - Any suggestions?

2009-05-19 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Tuesday 19 May 2009 at approximately 02:59:02 Jan de Groot composed: > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 02:51 -0500, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > Yes, that is the total 22 byte contents that crashed kmail. And this > > is a RC > > release??? > > http://bu

[arch-general] kde dark themes

2009-05-19 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
zes on the server (40x40 and 140x140) just in case you have a use for them ;-) See: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/icons/ -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] Koffice help won't work in kde3 - Any suggestions?

2009-05-19 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Tuesday 19 May 2009 at approximately 02:51:09 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. composed: > > OOOH, > > This is much worse than I thought. kword will not even open a text file > without crashing. Where does this bug go? Arch, kdemod or kde?. I seems > like it should

Re: [arch-general] Building local repo - eliminating dups - why some new x86_64?

2009-05-19 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
ing in the [community] repo still will not have the > architecture name as the [community] repo scripts do not handle it yet. > > Allan Allan, Thanks, at least I know I didn't mix apples and oranges. Thanks for the link as well. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Fir

Re: [arch-general] Koffice help won't work in kde3 - Any suggestions?

2009-05-19 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Tuesday 19 May 2009 at approximately 02:42:40 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. composed: > Listmates, > > I installed koffice and attempted to open an openoffice (.odt) document > and kword crashed immediately. Next I opened kword again to read through > the help fil

[arch-general] Koffice help won't work in kde3 - Any suggestions?

2009-05-19 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
/bugs/koffice.jpg The backtrace for the kword crash is: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/kword.kcrash Is there a work-around that will let me get the help file working? It looks to be a kde3 desktop/kde4 runtime issue. Any help appreciated. -- David C. Rankin, J.D

[arch-general] Building local repo - eliminating dups - why some new x86_64?

2009-05-18 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
oldpkgs\n${PKGFILES[$i+1]}\n" fi -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.

2009-05-18 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
cesses using this library will log this fact to the system logger and the library will only only return no as the answer to processes using it. Of all the changes I've made, no errors logged so it should be happily propagating, ... or fornicating, ... or whatever PolicyKit does to my

Re: [arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.

2009-05-18 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
an" are allowed to do any action: I have: I'm david, so what in the heck is the problem :-( -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.

2009-05-18 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Monday 18 May 2009 at approximately 09:48:00 David Rosenstrauch composed: >           >                   >           > AAARRRGGHH! Still no joy: org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result) (yes, I restarted hal ;-) --

Re: [arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.

2009-05-18 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Monday 18 May 2009 at approximately 09:48:00 David Rosenstrauch composed: > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > On or about Sunday 17 May 2009 at approximately 03:51:10 David C. Rankin, > > > >>Another interesting note. When I inserted the card, there w

[arch-general] error dumped to terminal: kdeinit4: ... /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 on kdemod3?

2009-05-18 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
hare/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line Now I'm not trying to run kdeinit4, that just what is coming back trough stderr and my prompt just happens to have a timestamp in it to help gage time. Is there anything I can do wi

Re: [arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.

2009-05-18 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Monday 18 May 2009 at approximately 05:27:02 Alessandro Doro composed: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 05:05:09AM -0500, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > When I stick the card in, as my normal user I can't access the device > > shown under "Services" &

Re: [arch-general] Howto create initial xorg.conf for intel 915?

2009-05-18 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
ported 0 rom size, guessing 64kB (==) intel(0): Using EXA for acceleration So it looks like I will need the xorg.conf after all. Thanks for your help in pointing me in the right direction. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas

Re: [arch-general] Howto create initial xorg.conf for intel 915?

2009-05-18 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Monday 18 May 2009 at approximately 05:06:28 Jan de Groot composed: > On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 04:51 -0500, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > Listmates: > > > > I have been throught http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_Graphics, > > and even added the

Re: [arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.

2009-05-18 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
"Storage Media" and the SD card (/dev/mmcblk0p1 in this case), Presto the device automatically appears as "disk" under /media and then I *can* access it (rw) as my normal user. What gives? What permissions are stuck? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm,

[arch-general] Howto create initial xorg.conf for intel 915?

2009-05-18 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
, but not as fast as they could. I would like to configure the card to use UXA accell, but I need an xorg.conf to tweak. Anybody know a quick way to create one? Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715

Re: [arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.

2009-05-17 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Sunday 17 May 2009 at approximately 03:16:26 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. composed: > Listmates, > > On my laptop, automounting of usb drives and mmc/sd cards were working > fine, now I get the "...mount.removable no <-- (action, result)" Full error

[arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.

2009-05-17 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
27;t know if the ACPI kernel message is evidence of the problem, but I included it just in case. I am slowly trying to make friends with hal/dbus, but I could use any help you can give in sorting this out. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Na

Re: [arch-general] AARG! kinit: cannot open dev(8,7) kernel panic

2009-05-17 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Saturday 16 May 2009 at approximately 20:28:49 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. composed: > On or about Saturday 16 May 2009 at approximately 20:13:11 pyther composed: > > Try replacing the disk-by-uuid stuff with direct paths to the device > > nodes (ex. /dev/sda2, etc).

Re: [arch-general] AARG! kinit: cannot open dev(8,7) kernel panic

2009-05-16 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
I'll give it a go and report back. My fingers are getting sore from all the mount and chroot typing though ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-16 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
kers additional information and viewpoints to consider in defining the policies to put in place. Even if all my/your suggestions are ultimately tossed, they still had value in providing an option or alternative to be considered. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

[arch-general] AARG! kinit: cannot open dev(8,7) kernel panic

2009-05-16 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
re else is the disk by-uuid stuff hidden? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] Setting up print to postscript in openoffice 3

2009-05-16 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
_to_Postscript_--_A_CUPS-PDF_Virtual_Printer_Trick -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] gparted dependency failure `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not found

2009-05-16 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Saturday 16 May 2009 at approximately 09:38:18 Allan McRae composed: > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > Listmates, > > > > Attempting to run gparted from the local drive (after installing all > > listed optional dependencies of gparted) to

Re: [arch-general] System Upgrade - networkmanager conflicts with libnetworkmanager

2009-05-16 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
conflicts lines here: > > http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/networkmanager/repos/extra-i686/PKG > >BUILD?view=markup > > the previous version has split Allan, Grigorios, Biru Thanks! That's what I needed. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochi

[arch-general] gparted dependency failure `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not found

2009-05-16 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not found (required by /usr/sbin/gpartedbin) Hmm should this be reported as a bug or chocked up to stupidity on my part? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715

[arch-general] System Upgrade - networkmanager conflicts with libnetworkmanager

2009-05-15 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
er. Remove libnetworkmanager? [Y/n] n error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: networkmanager: conflicts with libnetworkmanager -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telep

[arch-general] Setting up print to postscript in openoffice 3

2009-05-15 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
re the ps2pdf utility is called. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-14 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
ple one that you could make a mistake while editing, maybe much > more easily than when using usermod :) usermod and vi are both subject to the same loose nut behind the keyboard ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (93

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-14 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
groups unless I'm copying the initial group configuration over. I just hand edit for adding or removing members from the groups. I haven't yet run into any problems doing it like this, that's why I was surprised by the suggestion. However, I like the usermod approach, it will sav

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-14 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Thursday 14 May 2009 at approximately 13:13:53 Daenyth Blank composed: > > You can use vigr for this, and similarly vipw Thanks Daenyth! Old dog -- new trick. See, it can be done ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacog

Re: [arch-general] Virtualbox Window Transparent?? [solved - sort of]

2009-05-14 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Thursday 14 May 2009 at approximately 23:45:49 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. composed: > Listmates, > > Here is one for the experts. I installed virtual box on my Arch laptop, > and upon starting my XP guest machine, I discover that the VB window is > almost complet

[arch-general] Virtualbox Window Transparent??

2009-05-14 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
done. I am using the radeonhd driver. I tried it with compiz running and then again with kwin. It made no difference. Other than virtualbox being transparent, everything else was OK. Any ideas on this one?? cc: radeonhd list -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochi

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
nd the opportunity to consider a simple patch goes a long, long way toward making a distro shine. Now all of the above is just my opinion on the issue and will look like a bunch of idle rambling to most, but if you sift through it, there just may be a perl of wisdom to pick out. (remember, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-14 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
oups) I've never had a problem. What is the concern with editing /etc/group by hand? The group man page doesn't even reference usermod as a way to manipulate group associations. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches,

Re: [arch-general] Help understanding which interface OpenOffice is using? [Solved]

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
y got around to making openOffice, etc. look decent. The keys were: 1. Install kdemod3-gtk-qt-engine (if using kdemod3) qtcurve-gtk2 qtcurve-kde3 gtk-chtheme 2. Select Theme in qtconfig 3. Set a smaller font size with gtk-chtheme Now openOffice looks great! -- David C. Rankin, J

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
her using the run command (Alt+F2) and choosing "options" or using kmenuedit to modify a menu command and select the check box "Run as a different user" and enter 'root'. (either save the menu file or just execute the Alt+F2 run command. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

[arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
option is just to create the menu entries as "sudo command" which doesn't complain wheen opening whatever I need. What says the braintrust? Is this an arch issue or is it a kdemod issue? Any help would be appreciated, thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm,

Re: [arch-general] Why does my sound work sometimes & not others?

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
o put it to the list: "Does this look normal?" Anything I seem to be missing? Like I said, right now the sound is working, so I'll just compare the values/parameters to what I get when it quits again. Thanks again for your help. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] Why does my sound work sometimes & not others?

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
ch'. Looks like amarok is the only thing I can find that looks promising. Long and short of it is I now need sound. I'll check into pulseaudio. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

[arch-general] Radeonhd - Use EXA Accel instead of XAA Accel

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
t;AccelMethod" "EXA" Option "EnablePrivateBackZ" "no" Option "VideoOverlay" "on" Option "no_dri" "no" Option "UseFastTLS" "1" Option "no_accel" "no"

Re: [arch-general] kdm3 crash on logout - no apparrent errors [Partially Solved]

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 23:52:23 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > *WARN_ONCE* > File r300_mem.c function r300_mem_alloc line 225 > Ran out of GART memory (for 1048576)! > Please consider adjusting GAR

Re: [arch-general] Arch artwork & compiz screenshot

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
really cool glass look I thought would work good as a cube cap. I'll work with the new one once I have time to find one big enough. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] Why does my sound work sometimes & not others?

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 03:37:26 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > Listmates, > > I have the most atavistic sound known to mankind on my laptop running > arch. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The card specs are: > > > When I first start arch an

Re: [arch-general] Opera Segfaults on x86_64 after kernel update [Solved]

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Monday 11 May 2009 23:47:55 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > I have some additional information from the log file: > > May 11 23:37:42 alchemy kernel: opera[4657]: segfault at 0 ip > 7f0c25c36719 sp 7fff2fabd710 error 4 in > libstdc++.so.6.0.11[7f0c25b72000+f100

[arch-general] Why does my sound work sometimes & not others?

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
I reboot. Anybody got any ideas on what to check or what to keep a watch out for? Also, any ideas on how to bring the sound back once it dies without having to reboot? Thanks for any help you can provide. I always hated chasing sound problems. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm,

[arch-general] Arch artwork & compiz screenshot

2009-05-12 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
ve no interest, just hit [del]. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] kdm3 crash on logout - no apparrent errors

2009-05-12 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 04:42:33 Alessandro Doro wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 01:53:11AM -0500, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > Listmates, > > > > After the kernel update, my kdm3 is crashing with each user logout. > > Basically, on logout you are dumped

[arch-general] kdm3 crash on logout - no apparrent errors

2009-05-11 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
What can I check to get information to help solve this puzzle? I've checked /var/log/messages.log and Xorg.0.log, but nothing is out of the ordinary. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, T

Re: [arch-general] Dovecot

2009-05-11 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
} protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmas...@example.com mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/lda } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } user = root } dict { } plugin { } -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Str

Re: [arch-general] Opera Segfaults on x86_64 after kernel update

2009-05-11 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Monday 11 May 2009 23:35:05 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > Listmates, > > After the kernel update to kernel26 2.6.29.3-1, opera is segfaulting for > some reason. Opera doesn't event splash anything on the screen, it just > dies. Here is what I get from the cl

[arch-general] Opera Segfaults on x86_64 after kernel update

2009-05-11 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
meter) 5 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0 I have no idea what a BadAtom is or if that is the problem. I haven't run across anything else in the past hour since the update. What should I check? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Stree

Re: [arch-general] default ~/.config/compiz/compizconfig prevents compiz start with radeonhd

2009-05-09 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Saturday 09 May 2009 03:09:37 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > Listmates, > > > The problem is with the archlinux default > ~/.config/compiz/compizconfig/config supplied along with the > compiz-fusion-kde package. The default is: > > [kde_session] > profile

[arch-general] default ~/.config/compiz/compizconfig prevents compiz start with radeonhd

2009-05-09 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
bug or feature, but I thought I would pass it along. I'll file a bug report on the default config issue, fixing it will save a lot of folks a lot of heartache and newbies from thinking Linux doesn't work. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Naco

Re: [arch-general] kde control center "Use my KDE style in GTK applications" causes ooo buttons to disappear

2009-05-05 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 11:47:35 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > Listmates, > > I have an interesting one for you, in openOffice, all of the icons on > the > toolbars and all of the text of the context menus disappear when I click on > a document in writer. If I brush

[arch-general] kde control center "Use my KDE style in GTK applications" causes ooo buttons to disappear

2009-05-05 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
this? More importantly, how do I fix it? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)

2009-05-04 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
was read-only. So I just created a directory as a mount point and did 'mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb2 /mountpoint'. It worked just fine. I'll play around to find a way to get this (politely put 'dad-gum') hal/dbus/PolicyKit to do what a simple 'mount -t ntfs' had don

Re: [arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)

2009-05-04 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Monday 04 May 2009 13:30:42 Christopher Daley wrote: > Do you have ntfs-3g installed? > Yep! [20:17 alchemy:/] # pmq syslog-ng syslog-ng 3.0.1-6 Now what? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 71

Re: [arch-general] Laptop Install - 2 questions remain, WPA and Compiz with Radeon Driver

2009-05-04 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Monday 04 May 2009 12:05:09 David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > While I'm at it, where can I turn the default attempt to start 'eth0' > > off. > > in rc.conf: > > > # Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this o

[arch-general] Why do I have 20-ups-nut-device.fdi in my / dir?

2009-05-04 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
oks like a 'network ups tools' (nut) policy, but why it's in / escapes me. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)

2009-05-04 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Monday 04 May 2009 07:37:50 flashkot wrote: > 2009/5/4 Angel Velásquez > > > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:09 AM, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > > > > >org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, > > > > result) > > > > Did

Re: [arch-general] kde3 Error: Could Not Determine R esource Status - Kmail??

2009-05-04 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Monday 04 May 2009 10:34:05 David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > Anybody see this before and more importantly, How do I fix it? > > Use Thunderbird? :-) > > DR I got it fix auto-mysterious-magically Yes, it was imap and I don't

Re: [arch-general] Laptop Install - 2 questions remain, WPA and Compiz with Radeon Driver

2009-05-04 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Sunday 03 May 2009 05:21:05 Jan Spakula wrote: > Excerpts from David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.'s message of So Mai 03 12:11:04 +0200 2009: > > (1) My laptop has an Atheros card and is happily using the madwifi > > driver. The only problem is that I'm starting it manually a

Re: [arch-general] Laptop Install - 2 questions remain, WPA and Compiz with Radeon Driver

2009-05-04 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Sunday 03 May 2009 05:21:05 Jan Spakula wrote: > Excerpts from David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.'s message of So Mai 03 12:11:04 +0200 2009: > > (1) My laptop has an Atheros card and is happily using the madwifi > > driver. The only problem is that I'm starting it manually a

[arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)

2009-05-04 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
no-go? My conf file looks like this: No matter what I do I get: org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result) What gives

[arch-general] kde3 Error: Could Not Determine Resource Status - Kmail??

2009-05-03 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
hether the system administrator, or technical support group for further assistance. Anybody see this before and more importantly, How do I fix it? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936

[arch-general] Laptop Install - 2 questions remain, WPA and Compiz with Radeon Driver

2009-05-03 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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