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

2011-05-26 Thread Johannes Held
On 25.05.2011 21:35, jesse jaara wrote: Id say that if we wan't to go the way, where we take other kernels into account too (hurd) we should name linux-kernel and gurd would be hurd-kernel. But I see it extreamly unlikely for hurd or anyother kernel to ever become offical part of arch, atleast no

Re: [arch-general] Status of dcron

2011-05-01 Thread Johannes Held
On 01.05.2011 19:00, Jim Pryor wrote: I don't know yet how to push a new local branch to remote, though I know I'll be able to figure it out. That would be git push origin new_local_branch -- Johannes

Re: [arch-general] Why are financial contributions not accepted?

2011-04-30 Thread Johannes Held
On 01.05.2011 04:13, Ray Kohler wrote: I also have donated in the past, and would do so again if it were made possible. What about a normal bank transfer to one of Arch's core maintainers?

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Vi package

2011-02-11 Thread Johannes Held
David Campbell : > Excerpts from Allan McRae's message of 2011-02-10 17:12:54 -0500: > > Is the current vi package actually usable for an install by someone more > > familiar with it? > Yes, I have used it a few times, and prefer it over nano. +1 The simple things (switching input modes and saving

Re: [arch-general] How to do this

2010-10-24 Thread Johannes Held
Christian : > I know that I have to use piping for this, but I want to output the > errors I get while compiling a program into atext file. > What to type after make then? You could try "tee". man tee. your_command | tee file_1 file_2 -- Gruß, Johannes http://hehejo.de signature.asc Descript

Re: [arch-general] Creation of startup scripts

2010-10-05 Thread Johannes Held
"Christian" : > OK, just want to be sure if I want to create rc scripts I should read up on > bash scripting? Hehe, that depends! If you need to do really complicated things - yes! If you simply want to start some program like you would from shell - no! -- Gruß, Johannes http://hehejo.de signat

Re: [arch-general] Creation of startup scripts

2010-10-05 Thread Johannes Held
"Christian" : > I would also like to get started in creating aur packages. > But this is bash scripts? Jep, nearly everything on ArchLinux is made via bash (exceptions are pacman and friends). Whether you want to crreate aur packages or alter provided packages you need to learn about PKGBUILD and

Re: [arch-general] Creation of startup scripts

2010-10-05 Thread Johannes Held
"Christian" : > Hi all, > I am learning more and more about Linux, but I would like to learn how to > create startup scripts for my programs, any good resource? Where should I > start? Many thanks, Christian > Take some initscript from /etc/rc.d, copy and adjust it to your needs. -- Gruß, Johann

Re: [arch-general] [OffTopic] Wireless keyboard Security

2010-09-06 Thread Johannes Held
Partha Chowdhury : > If others on the list are using wireless keyboard, what are your > experiences and recommendations? I'm using "Cherry Wireless"[1]. I love it's thin appearance. Imho the connection is encrypted. [1]: http://www.cherry.de/deutsch/produkte/wireless_desktops_eVolution_ORCA_Wirel

Re: [arch-general] 1. Re: version control system for normal user (Magnus Therning)

2010-08-28 Thread Johannes Held
Magnus Therning : > True, but I still don't quite understand the point of the staging area. > I've > never found a good use for it. In short, I don't think the staging area is > the feature that makes git a better option than Mercurial :-) If you use it, you'll need it. :) Short time ago, I didn'

Re: [arch-general] 1. Re: version control system for normal user (Magnus Therning)

2010-08-28 Thread Johannes Held
José M. Prieto : > Git is very powerful, but not the easier one to use. I'd suggest darcs > or mercurial better. I used Darcs for a while and I liked its "theory of patches". But at some point I was just fed up with having to decide about every line I changed. With Git, I can stage selected changes

Re: [arch-general] Updated tree years old archlinux

2010-08-15 Thread Johannes Held
Ray Rashif : > 1) remove any xorg.conf that you have I did that before reboot. Xorg still didn't find any screens. The reason for that, might be an outdated driver still loaded - thus the reboot. > 2) edit mkinitcpio.conf for a 'full' image I'd miss that one. -.- I'll give it another try. But yo

[arch-general] Updated tree years old archlinux

2010-08-15 Thread Johannes Held
Hi, during the last days I updated my old notebook. It wasn't updated since 2007. So you can imagine that the latest switch from tar.gz to tar.xz was a little problem. But a manual installation of the necessary packages and some rude untaring directly in / gave me the ability to update the whole s

Re: [arch-general] $BROWSER variable and Google Earth

2010-07-20 Thread Johannes Held
Aleksis Jauntēvs : > It is not a bug. Your .bashrc or .zshrc files are sourced only in terminal. Does X inherit variables that are set in .bashrc when it is started via "startx" from initlevel 3? -- Gruß, Johannes http://hehejo.de signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] Err... Why is gvim now conflicting with vim?

2010-05-07 Thread Johannes Held
http://www.archlinux.org/news/495/ * If you have gvim installed, the update will inform you that vim conflicts with gvim. This is the expected behavior. Installation of vim and gvim separately is no longer required, the gvim package now installs vim as well. -- Gruß, Johannes http://hehejo.d

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

2010-05-06 Thread Johannes Held
solsTiCe d'Hiver : > One of the ways to speed up firefox is to put your ~/.mozilla in a tmpfs > (doing it the right way, else you loose your data). This have been > discussed somewhere I think. > How else ? You mean that wikientry? http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Speed-up_Firefox_using_tmpfs -

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Johannes Held
Ian-Xue Li : > Overall, if you don't care any of the above, mpd with any suitable > player (I use ncmpcpp) is a must-try combination. Cool, I always thought ncmpc can't be made better. :-) Thanks for that hint! -- Gruß, Johannes http://hehejo.de signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] Quoting of E-mails

2010-01-20 Thread Johannes Held
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Holmes : > If I addopt bottom posting, I plan then to delete all but the most recent > post to keep thing conscise. Sure! That's the right(tm) way to do it. ;-) > Actually I'm run into *MANY* of these huge long threads in a single > message to h

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

2009-09-28 Thread Johannes Held
Hello Roman, I have a VPS with ArchLinux running. My Hoster is http://goekal-it.de/ and 'till now, I had not any problems (despite the dumbs ssh-login-error I wrote wonce a while). I can't say very much about their performance, cause I use this system mainly as "playarea" and I don't have

Re: [arch-general] vim 7.2.245-1

2009-09-23 Thread Johannes Held
Jozsef : > I'm using vim all the time. Never vi. Little bit more in detail. How do you start "vim"? $> vim or $> vi -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. Mast und Schotbruch mit dem http://segelsport-blog.de. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] Ruby and rubygems

2009-09-17 Thread Johannes Held
Lars Tennstedt : > I noticed that RubyRipper does not start anymore since the last ruby > update. Can anyone confirm that? confirmed -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. Mast und Schotbruch mit dem http://segelsport-blog.de. signature.asc Description: PGP sig

Re: [arch-general] Ruby and rubygems

2009-09-17 Thread Johannes Held
hi > I updated my Arch Linux box today and pacman wanted to install an update > for ruby that conflicted with rubygems. So I removed rubygems. But what > is the reason for this conflict? afaik new ruby 1.9 contains rubygems and rake. -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst d

Re: [arch-general] Can't ssh to vServer running ArchLinux

2009-09-11 Thread Johannes Held
Pierre Schmitz : > That wont help right now, but one should not rent a server without a serical > console __and__ a rescue system which can boot from network. Jeah, you're right with that points. All I can say: It's a vServer mainly to "play and fool around" Why don't you think that the support ca

Re: [arch-general] Can't ssh to vServer running ArchLinux

2009-09-11 Thread Johannes Held
Dieter Plaetinck : > http://www.archlinux.org/news/454/ Thanks for that link. As the article says: > Due to severe system breakages if this file is not updated, this change will > be automatically handled by pacman. Unfortunately, I didn't check the update. We didn't alter these files anyway. The

Re: [arch-general] Can't ssh to vServer running ArchLinux

2009-09-11 Thread Johannes Held
Chris Bannister : > Proabbly initab is set wrong, what was updated? That can be. I don't know what's been updated. That update was one or two weeks ago. Unfortunately I don't know exactly what packages are updated - but I bet it's something with that change in tty and inittab.. -- Gruß, Johannes

[arch-general] Can't ssh to vServer running ArchLinux

2009-09-11 Thread Johannes Held
Hello, after my latest update of my vServer, I wanted to ssh into this box. But I'm given this error message and the ssh hangs: $ ssh bitterblume.com PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 Is there any chance to resque that? I've always did a copy of the old kernel-image. Perhaps I can get t

Re: [arch-general] Anyone else who has alsa issues?

2009-09-09 Thread Johannes Held
Alessandro Doro : > Have you tried > $ mplayer -ao alsa yourmultimedia.file Thank you. That solved the problem! -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. Mast und Schotbruch mit dem http://segelsport-blog.de. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] Anyone else who has alsa issues?

2009-09-09 Thread Johannes Held
Tobias Powalowski : > You use both audacious, could it be just a bug in there? audacious .. no I have multiple sounds while listening to MPD and mplayer or mpg123. Playing music via mpg123, I have no sound while watching a viedo with mplayer. -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und d

Re: [arch-general] Anyone else who has alsa issues?

2009-09-09 Thread Johannes Held
Hi. Tobias Powalowski : > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16094 No, I can't have two apps play at the same time. I'm not using KDE or Gnome at all - but it's more a gtkish system :) But perhaps a restart will fix this. I don't know. lsmod | grep snd* snd_seq_dummy 3540 0 snd_seq_oss

Re: [arch-general] Xorg broken after last update

2009-08-01 Thread Johannes Held
Luís Moreira : > Anyone experienced the same thing? No, work's without any problems here. I have the same setting as you: x86_64 without testing. -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. Mast und Schotbruch mit dem http://segelsport-blog.de. signature.asc Descript

Re: [arch-general] compile flags with ABS

2009-07-23 Thread Johannes Held
Sascha Siegel : > how can i find out the compile flags of an app from the ABS? Perhaps on the well documented upstream webpage. hopefully... -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. Mast und Schotbruch mit dem http://segelsport-blog.de. signature.asc Description:

Re: [arch-general] AUR Search

2009-06-24 Thread Johannes Held
Xavier : > But only today! ymmd! -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. Mast und Schotbruch mit dem http://segelsport-blog.de. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] AUR Search

2009-06-24 Thread Johannes Held
Andrei Thorp : > Yeah, I guess Xandros isn't terribly popular amongst open source folk. Who cares? Beeing employed today is more important ... -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. Mast und Schotbruch mit dem http://segelsport-blog.de. signature.asc Description

Re: [arch-general] Openbox - great lightweight desktop, similar to icewm, but better in several regards

2009-06-10 Thread Johannes Held
"David C. Rankin" : > The > only thing I didn't find was an Alt+F2 run command equivalent (I'm sure it's > there, I just haven't found it) You have to manage this by your own. Paste something like this into you ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml and be shure to have gmrun installed. gmrun In

Re: [arch-general] Fix or not fix? install scriptlets with user handling.

2009-05-28 Thread Johannes Held
Daenyth Blank : > I don't really see how this is needed. If a user updates package X > which he knows is running a daemon, it's not hard to know whether or > not it should be restarted. We should always assume the user is > competant Yes, that's right. But it would fix the problem of "should every

Re: [arch-general] Fix or not fix? install scriptlets with user handling.

2009-05-28 Thread Johannes Held
I'm not really an expert on this topic... but could it be a solution to ask the user in a pre-install step? Like: This update will change many things in the config and does this and that and some other bad things. It's recommended that the service FOO is restarted after upd

Re: [arch-general] pidgin memory leak?

2009-05-28 Thread Johannes Held
Gregory T Helton : > Is anyone else having problems with pidgin? Me not. It's running smooth with no noticeable errors. But I'm using it muted. Perhaps that's an issue? And my computer runs with 4GB RAM, too. % ps -aux | grep pidgin jo 14004 0.1 1.0 420528 40768 tty1 SMay28 0:23

Re: [arch-general] Repository download speed? Any way to improve?

2009-04-21 Thread Johannes Held
hi > Do I need to specify individual mirrors that would work better for my > location in TX? If so, where can I get a list that will let me see the > closest ones? Thanks. Use the "rankmirrors" skript: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Improve_Pacman_Performance#Choosing_the_fastest_mirr

Re: [arch-general] Understanding permissions

2009-04-16 Thread Johannes Held
Maurí­cio : > stat("/home/mauricio/public_html", 0x7fffceb2dcb0) = -1 EACCES (Permission > denied) Is your ~ r-x for others? -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] [Fwd: [arch-announce] Dropping i686 support]

2009-04-01 Thread Johannes Held
Denis A. Altoé Falqueto : > THAT is exactly the funny part! Jap, that's for sure. But as I mentioned, the line between the funny part and insulting is very thin. -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc D

Re: [arch-general] [Fwd: [arch-announce] Dropping i686 support]

2009-04-01 Thread Johannes Held
Aaron Griffin : > Yeesh... date +"%m %d" Yeah the line between "hanging on the joke" and extremly bad behavoir is very thin. I mean, every year - arch comes up with a good joke for fools day. Many people notice the joke and keep on playing.. But other.. ruggish words and bad replys occurs on our

Re: [arch-general] File notification question

2009-03-25 Thread Johannes Held
What about inotify? http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-inotify.html -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] On rolling release system and its benefits.

2009-03-17 Thread Johannes Held
Thomas Bächler : > That said, from my and many users' experience, Arch is very stable > despite constantly changing. We have managed to walk the fine line > between bleeding edge and stability/usability, and I think we have been > doing pretty well. And that's one of the big facts why I _love_ A

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Newsletter for March, 2009

2009-03-06 Thread Johannes Held
Aaron Griffin : > I'm open to ideas as to how to fix this. The code which inserts the news into the database could also send that mail (and strip unwanted content). -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc

Re: [arch-general] smtp daemon

2009-03-04 Thread Johannes Held
> Any suggestions? What about postfix? A friend of mine installed and configured it just some days ago on our vserver (running ArchLinux). -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc Description: PGP signatur

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Maintainer wanted for ruby

2009-02-07 Thread Johannes Held
This could be interessting, too. http://isitruby19.com/ (via http://www.ruby-mine.de/2009/2/6/gem-compatible_with-ruby19) -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Maintainer wanted for ruby

2009-02-06 Thread Johannes Held
"Kessia 'even' Pinheiro" : > And it can broke any actual package? Updating to 1.9.1 broke vim (beeing compiled with --enable-rubyinterp. libruby.so can't be located at startup...) -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Maintainer wanted for ruby

2009-02-05 Thread Johannes Held
Allan McRae : > I think very little in [extra] depends on ruby (needed plugins mainly), > but the is quite a bit in [community]. I thought BaSh used to maintain > some of them so perhaps he wants to be the maintainer. Anyway, the > transition to the 1.9 series in not minor (as in plug-ins need

Re: [arch-general] "ArchLinux on Eeee PC 901" in "freiesMagazin 12/2008"

2008-12-07 Thread Johannes Held
w9ya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The sad thing is that the website does not appear to use any automagical > translation engine that an English reader can easily find. Heck I am not > sure which link is the article in question. So I was merely wondering If > there was such a thing available. http://freie

[arch-general] "ArchLinux on Eeee PC 901" in "freiesMagazin 12/2008"

2008-12-07 Thread Johannes Held
Hey Folks! freiesMagazin 12/2008 [1] published an article about ArchLinux on Asus Eee PC 901. [1]: http://freiesmagazin.de/ -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] x hotplugging probs

2008-12-01 Thread Johannes Held
David Rosenstrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ah - figured it out: evdev kernel module wasn't being automatically > loaded in my rc.conf. > > Sorry for the noise. That's no noise! That could be my solution too. Atm, I disabled the automatic search via ServerFlags - just three seconds before I went m

Re: [arch-general] Weird upgrade problem ??

2008-11-15 Thread Johannes Held
RedShift schrieb: > Read the news http://archlinux.org/news/411/ (that's an faily "old" news now..) -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] uswsup in aur

2008-11-05 Thread Johannes Held
*phew* It's working like a charm! I'll have to tune some things, like stopping mpd but hey!!! woho! You've made my day! -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] uswsup in aur

2008-11-05 Thread Johannes Held
"Guus Snijders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Johannes, you could also try pm-utils[1] which is maintained in extra. Ah, that seems to be a good alternative. But, pm-utils needs a swap parition. And having 4gb of ram, I decided that I won't need one.. :) Let's see how I'll do this. But thanks, I'll take

[arch-general] uswsup in aur

2008-11-04 Thread Johannes Held
Hello I want to suspend my computer (no laptop) to ram or even to disk. For the ease of use I first want to try suspend to ram and looked into our wiki [1] which recommended uswsusp from aur. But I have the same problem like "dninja" in the coments. libgcrypt-1.4.3-2 is installed but the build br

Re: [arch-general] 32-bit glibc package?

2008-08-21 Thread Johannes Held
David Rosenstrauch schrieb: Johannes Held wrote: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch64_Install_bundled_32bit_system Ugh. Looks like a lot of work. Basically no. Because the only thing you need to do, is telling pacman to do a "complete" new installation, but please into /

Re: [arch-general] 32-bit glibc package?

2008-08-20 Thread Johannes Held
RedShift schrieb: Use a 32 bit chroot for 32 bit stuff. Arch doesn't (and hopefully will never ever) support multilib. That are my hopes, too. Having an arch32-chroot myself, I can say it works like a charm! There's a wonderfull article in the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch64_I

Re: [arch-general] [gcc-4.3] segfault when runnung -O3 compiled c++ code

2008-06-26 Thread Johannes Held
> Can someone confirm that this > http://codepad.org/I313t7BN > compiled with > g++ -O3 test.cpp -o test > gives a segfault when trying to run it via > ./test same here: 11:14:33 [~/idownload] cat test.cpp struct Vector { Vector() : x(0), y(0), z(0) { } float x,y,z; }; struct Foo {

Re: [arch-general] Firebug FF extension won't upgrade with FF3.0

2008-06-23 Thread Johannes Held
David Rosenstrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Anyone else use the Firebug extension for Firefox? Seems like the old > version (1.05) isn't compatible with FF3.0. But I'm also unable to > upgrade to the new version (1.2.0b3). The extension home page > (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addo

Re: [arch-general] Arch-graphics unofficial repository

2008-06-03 Thread Johannes Held
"Gustavo A. Gómez Farhat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am getting this error when trying to browse your site: I can view his site quite normal. No errors here. -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc Descript

Re: [arch-general] Tool to stop and start services? (Don't Panic)

2008-05-22 Thread Johannes Held
Nigel Henry schrieb: Is there anything similar that I could use on my Archlinux install? But sure it is: (as root:) /etc/rc.d/ [start|stop|restart] -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc Description:

Re: [arch-general] [English] New Distro - Can't Read German

2008-04-01 Thread Johannes Held
"Aaron Griffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Nominated for quote of the year: > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:38 AM, David Rosenstrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > German is way more useful than Ruby! :-) > +2 -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.

Re: [arch-general] [English] New Distro - Can't Read German

2008-04-01 Thread Johannes Held
Michael Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jon Kristian Nilsen wrote: > > On the other hand, it is 1st of April :D > > Well, you got the point close to heart attack ;) > Damn it! I nearly fell from my chair.. Ah.. laughing sometimes hurts! -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fü

Re: [arch-general] [English] New Distro - Can't Read German

2008-04-01 Thread Johannes Held
Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ab morgen werden auch die Mailinglisten auf deutsch umgestellt. Ich > schlage vor ihr lernt ohne Babelfish deutsch zu sprechen. Na ich hätte kein Problem damit. Solange wir "feststehende" Begriffe wie "named pipe" nicht eindeutschen müssen. :-P -- Gruß, Jo

Re: [arch-general] Problems with keyboardinput

2008-03-15 Thread Johannes Held
Roman Kyrylych schrieb: kbd_mode -u# for Unicode mode And it is working again! Thank you! -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version

Re: [arch-general] Problems with keyboardinput

2008-03-13 Thread Johannes Held
Thank you very much. I'll go and try! -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] Problems with keyboardinput

2008-03-12 Thread Johannes Held
Loui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> May someone show me the maillinglistarchive of this ML? >> Then I try to find it. > http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/ Thank you. I looked through these mails quite a bit - but I didn't find my old thread. And I don't have this nice snipped of commandline her

Re: [arch-general] Problems with keyboardinput

2008-03-07 Thread Johannes Held
Hi. I'm not sure if it's same problem. The fix for this problem was simply a oneliner in shell. May someone show me the maillinglistarchive of this ML? Then I try to find it. -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version

[arch-general] Problems with keyboardinput

2008-03-07 Thread Johannes Held
Hello, I have a second Arch running in a virtual machine. Recently I noticed that I can't write some characters like @, {, ~ .. and the like. It seem's that AltGr is somewhat broken. I know that I had this problem with my normal PC. But the solution is 30kilometers away and buried somewhere unt

Re: [arch-general] Boot sequence stops at modules (rc.sysinit)

2008-02-29 Thread Johannes Held
Stephen Wilkinson schrieb: I tried booting into different run levels (adding 1 or 3 to the kernel line of grub), but it makes no difference. I'm no dev - but as far as I know the bsd-style initscripts gave ArchLinux no runlevels like you find them in SysV-style systems like Debian or SUSE. Run

Re: [arch-general] no x with new xorg-server and nvidia [solved]

2008-02-12 Thread Johannes Held
My problem is solved. brebs (in the forum) gave me the hint, that something is wrong, because I had files in /usr/lib64. Deleting them and reinstalling nvidia* - and X is up again. What did I learn? Don't mess your system with packages AND installers! http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pi

Re: [arch-general] no x with new xorg-server and nvidia

2008-02-12 Thread Johannes Held
Hello, in the forums there's someone with the same problem. I posted in this thread, too. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=329213#p329213 Perhaps you want to take a look at it.. Xorg.0.log tells, that X crashes. (II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE (II) Initializing built-in ex

Re: [arch-general] no x with new xorg-server and nvidia

2008-02-11 Thread Johannes Held
Guillermo schrieb: Are you sure the nvidia* packages installed correctly? When I installed them both a few hours ago, one of them gave me some problems because of a simlink already there. I deleted the simlink and everything went fine after that. Yes, I had this problem too - but I fixed it with

Re: [arch-general] no x with new xorg-server and nvidia

2008-02-11 Thread Johannes Held
I tried to install the old nvidia packages - but it seems, that they are bound to kernel 2.6.23.. -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version

[arch-general] no x with new xorg-server and nvidia

2008-02-11 Thread Johannes Held
Hi folks, right now, I updated my machine and X won't start! The new kernel, new xorg-server and nvidia-*. nvidia 169.09-2 nvidia-utils169.09-1 xorg-server 1.4.0.90-6 kernel262.6.24.1-2 I updated normally but X won't start. All I get is a blank screen. I can't change b

Re: [arch-general] Java applets in Arch64

2008-01-25 Thread Johannes Held
I have a chroot with a complete separated arch32 running. Everytime I start firefox - I start it via dchroot -d firefox and then I have flash, java & much more like acrobatplugin. AND I don't clash 32bitty things into my arch64. When these things are fixed - simply rm -rf /opt/arch32! Unfortu

Re: [arch-general] makepkg running as root

2008-01-21 Thread Johannes Held
"Dan McGee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Just think of what this would do as root in a PKGBUILD: > > build() { > echo "You've been pwned!!!" > rm -rf / > } This is the reason why I always take a look into a PGKBUILD before makepkging it (as user of course!). -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.h

Re: [arch-general] New web page

2008-01-12 Thread Johannes Held
Carl Mueller schrieb: The new web page looks great! Congratulations to all involved. Oh yes - exactly my thoughts! -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [extra signoff] nvidia/nvidia-utils 169.07

2008-01-08 Thread Johannes Held
Hello out there On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:11:34 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > I added new nvidia drivers 169.07 for i686 and x86_64 to testing. My > nvidia machine is out of order for now, so please sign off both > architectures and as many GPUs as possible. > > I am also interested in signoffs

Re: [arch-general] Mailing list rename

2007-11-30 Thread Johannes Held
Pierre Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't know why people sing their emails when sending to a public mailing > list. Who checks all the keys and imports them? That's indeed a good point. But all my emails get signed by default. And I think, that's not bad. -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://bl

Re: [arch-general] Firefox -2 package bug?

2007-11-30 Thread Johannes Held
Graziano Giuliani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 07:59 +0100, Johannes Held wrote: > [...] > > /opt/arch32/opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-2.0.0.10/firefox-bin: ELF 64-bit LSB > > executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.16, dynamically >

Re: [arch-general] Mailing list rename

2007-11-30 Thread Johannes Held
Hussam Al-Tayeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It will look more elegant that way. Let's use html-email with fancy logos and background images. :-) -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc Description: PGP signatu

Re: [arch-general] Mailing list rename

2007-11-29 Thread Johannes Held
"R. Dale Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, sure looks much better that way. *thumbs up* -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] Firefox -2 package bug?

2007-11-29 Thread Johannes Held
"Rodrigo Coacci" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Anyone else or its just me? Here too. But additionaly, in my arch32-chroot, I get this funny message: $ LANG=C dchroot -d firefox (arch32) firefox /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-2.0.0.10/run-mozilla.sh: line 166: /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-2.0.0.10/firefox-bin: No

Re: [arch-general] Mailing list rename

2007-11-29 Thread Johannes Held
"Aaron Griffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How does it break GPG/MIME? Just curious. GPG/MIME encrypts/signs the WHOLE email. Subject, body and attachments and attaches this to an new email. Mail programm notices that and shows the attached mail as original mail. Thinking about it - the footer would b

Re: [arch-general] Mailing list rename

2007-11-29 Thread Johannes Held
Am Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:33:36 +0200 schrieb Grigorios Bouzakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > i would vote for getting rid of the footer as well if thats an option. > or at least shorten it a bit. its irritating when people quote & quote > without removing it. But that's not a problem of the footer. That's