Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-29 Thread Peter Cannon
Hi All What an interesting diatribe of views and opinions it's been with clearly many individuals letting their guard down ever so slightly. initially I was of the opinion that the original subject line of this thread was incorrect and should have been "Petition to not implement SystemD." altho

Re: [arch-general] Newbies in Arch [WAS: Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver]

2012-01-05 Thread Peter Cannon
On 04/01/12 23:26, Peter Lewis wrote: Nice to see that Godwin's Law [1] still applies on "proper" mailing lists in 2012 ;-) Happy new year folks! Pete. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_la Ahahaha +1

Re: [arch-general] Newbies in Arch [WAS: Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver]

2012-01-04 Thread Peter Cannon
On 04/01/12 03:25, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: Carry on doing what *you* want not what others want you to do. I too joined "The pain of making tea." that is Arch Linux due to the statement that used to be on display; *Q)*When I run “pacman –sync” it comes up with “could not open sync database:rep

Re: [arch-general] How to change gdm greeter theme?

2010-07-23 Thread Peter Cannon
On 23/07/10 12:00, Magnus Therning wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:29, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 07/23/2010 01:19 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, This used to be easy with gdmsetup, but in gdm 2.30 -- that's gone. I've been to the gnome sites, I've googled it, I've looked through the gdm packa

Re: [arch-general] Xorg 1.8, Nvidia 6200 Videoseven monitor

2010-06-30 Thread Peter Cannon
On 30/06/10 09:55, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 30.06.2010 10:45, schrieb Peter Cannon: On 30/06/10 09:43, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 30.06.2010 10:38, schrieb Peter Cannon: I have upgraded to Xorg release 1.8 to do so I had to remove the Nvidia-173xx driver and installed xf86-video-nv. do you

Re: [arch-general] Xorg 1.8, Nvidia 6200 Videoseven monitor

2010-06-30 Thread Peter Cannon
On 30/06/10 09:43, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 30.06.2010 10:38, schrieb Peter Cannon: I have upgraded to Xorg release 1.8 to do so I had to remove the Nvidia-173xx driver and installed xf86-video-nv. do you use nvidia 173xx? The 6200 is supported by the nvidia driver. I'm not? If you re

[arch-general] Xorg 1.8, Nvidia 6200 Videoseven monitor

2010-06-30 Thread Peter Cannon
Hi All I have a Videoseven 19" monitor L19FM and an Nvidia 6200 graphics card the monitor's capabilities are never recognised properly by any Linux distribution so usually I use the Nvidia-settings tool. I have upgraded to Xorg release 1.8 to do so I had to remove the Nvidia-173xx driver and

[arch-general] Xorg 1.8, Nvidia 6200 Videoseven monitor

2010-06-30 Thread Peter Cannon
Hi All I have a Videoseven 19" monitor L19FM and an Nvidia 6200 graphics card the monitor's capabilities are never recognised properly by any Linux distribution so usually I use the Nvidia-settings tool. I have upgraded to Xorg release 1.8 to do so I had to remove the Nvidia-173xx driver and

Re: [arch-general] Dedicated Arch servers

2010-03-20 Thread Peter Cannon
On 20/03/10 09:13, Jonathan Brown wrote: > Dude relax - I was offering you the services of the company I work for. > However, I far from own the company, I am just a tech. Even so, I didn't > feel it was appropriate to respond to the mailing list. Sorry that offended > you so much. > > Spamm

Re: [arch-general] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!

2010-03-15 Thread Peter Cannon
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > Hello, I've been using various Linux distros for a while now. I just > decided to give Arch Linux a try. But I'm a little bit lost. I'm used to > distros like Xubuntu, PCLinuxOS, OpenSuSE, etc... Where I don't need to > personally understand what order I need to ins

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Peter Cannon
Aaron Griffin wrote: So in the next few weeks, I would like to buy a netbook. The market is saturated, so I'd like to ask for some advice here. What do you guys think of the current offerings? What's considered "the best" now-a-days? What kinds of netbooks do Arch users have? I have the Dell