Re: [arch-general] Using libalpm with Vala

2011-01-25 Thread bardo
2011/1/14 Rémy Oudompheng : > Hello, > > I became recently interested in Vala, and I did several experiments to > try interfacing it with libalpm. Hello Rémy, you should probably forward this message to the pacman-dev ml, as it is where pacman (and libalpm) development takes place. It's easy to mi

Re: [arch-general] PCMCIA Kernel 2.6

2010-07-14 Thread bardo
2010/7/14 Nilesh Govindarajan : > Further, I don't see any PCMCIA option while compiling kernel 2.6 -> Device Drivers -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y]) -> PCMCIA network device support (NET_PCMCIA [=n]) Hint: press / when in menuconfig and type your search string ;-)

Re: [arch-general] nVidia MCP79

2010-07-11 Thread bardo
2010/7/11 Rafael Beraldo : > According to Corrado, the MacBook uses the same sound card that my netbook > uses. This wiki page says the model parameter can be either mbp3 or mb5: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBook_Aluminum#Sound I didn't say we have the same soundcard, I said we have th

Re: [arch-general] script to recursively convert filenames to uppercase

2010-07-11 Thread bardo
2010/7/11 Patrick Burroughs : > I believe this should do it: > find -depth -execdir sh -c 'mv {} $(echo {} | tr a-z A-Z)' \; Looks good, anyway s/he asked for files, so I'd add a '-type f' to the command line. C

Re: [arch-general] nVidia MCP79

2010-07-11 Thread bardo
2010/7/11 Alexander Lam : >> Tried the RC kernel with no success. Sound was the same as in the current >> kernel. Maybe it _is_ low and there is no solution or I'm just crazy. I'm sorry about that. You could be right, though, after all it is a netbook. > does the nvidia MCP79 utilize the intel hd

Re: [arch-general] nVidia MCP79

2010-07-10 Thread bardo
2010/7/10 Rafael Beraldo : > I just tested the microphone in Audacity (I think it uses ALSA, doesn't > it?). It works pretty well! It uses what it's told to, I don't remember what the default is as I change it pretty frequently. Check the input source preferences. > I'm sorry I'm not used to mail

Re: [arch-general] nVidia MCP79

2010-07-10 Thread bardo
2010/7/10 Rafael Beraldo : > In my old laptop, every time I blew the (parallel) microphone, it could hear > it. It doesn't happen with my 1201N and then I assumed that the mic wasn't > working at all. For some reason, however, I tested it yesterday on Skype > test call and --- surprisingly --- it w

Re: [arch-general] nVidia MCP79

2010-07-10 Thread bardo
2010/7/9 Rafael Beraldo : > Hi, > > I bought a Asus 1201N and installed Arch on it. Sound (a nVidia MCP79) works > but I think sound is too low. I've set everything in alsamixer to 100% and > even with a headphone it is still low. Although I can hear it well, I think > this netbook can amplificate

Re: [arch-general] ftp.gigabit.nu / ftp.archlinux.se shutting down

2010-07-04 Thread bardo
2010/7/4 Rickard Eriksson : > Cut from the forum where my co-admin first put this up, however it got > closed with reason "trolling"... You're *totally* trolling. There are many fallacies in your message. First of all implying that what you're saying is unknown to the community. This is not true.

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 04/48] Use [[ ]] instead of [ ] for conditional checking when running in bash.

2010-06-30 Thread bardo
2010/7/1 Daenyth Blank : > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 17:56, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> Am 30.06.2010 23:47, schrieb Victor Lowther: >>> It is worth 10 - 30% speedup whenever you want to compare something. >> >> Where do you get this from? I always used [ ], and I found it >> sufficient. Why is [[ ]] f

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio package group

2010-05-18 Thread bardo
2010/5/19 Isaac Dupree : > also I wonder why the group name to be "pulse" and not "pulseaudio". This was an upstream decision.

Re: [arch-general] 4k sector drives

2010-04-30 Thread bardo
2010/4/30 Robert Howard : > How did you get two drives into RAID5 and if so, why? Just run 'mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1', it's as simple as that. Why? Because I still have four free bays on that machine, and someday I'll surely want to expand the disks wi

Re: [arch-general] 4k sector drives

2010-04-29 Thread bardo
2010/4/29 Caleb Cushing : > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Marti Raudsepp wrote: >> However, this WD disk crashed after barely 3 days of operation and I >> replaced it with a normal 512-byte sector Seagate. >> > eek! hope the ones I ordered today don't do that. Just two days ago I built an Arch

Re: [arch-general] keyboard not working in Xorg after package updates

2010-04-09 Thread bardo
2010/4/9 David Rosenstrauch : > * I'm getting a load of errors in the slim.log file that look like this: > expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_1 line 8 of xfree86 > > > W  T  F  ? ! ? Not sure it's the same problem, but I experienced something similar a while ago... and I couldn't properly use my

Re: [arch-general] I'm having a brain far^Hilure... I can't find the XFCE control

2010-03-20 Thread bardo
iconic representations of my hard drive partitions. If you don't want anything on your desktop (including files you put in ~/Desktop) just launch xfdesktop-settings, open the "Icons" tab and under "Icon type" select "None". There you have it, and you can even restore sane permissions on ~/Desktop ;-) bardo

Re: [arch-general] Problems with Xorg

2010-02-15 Thread bardo
2010/2/15 Aaron Griffin : > Am Montag, 15. Februar 2010 16:53:14 schrieb Aaron Griffin: >> WTF is this shit? > > You should go see a doctor; or use psf, dkim etc. ;-) > > PS: No, that wasn't me. Yeah, you seem to forget your signatures around ;-) | \|/ > Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.d

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.1.1

2010-02-02 Thread bardo
2010/2/2 bardo : > I could reboot and run xfs_check in my virtual machine, the core > functionalities seem to be ok. Heh... this meant a 'signoff i686' =P

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.1.1

2010-02-02 Thread bardo
2010/2/2 Tobias Powalowski : >> please signoff both arches, > Paul? Or anyone else? I could reboot and run xfs_check in my virtual machine, the core functionalities seem to be ok. Corrado

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010-01-31 Thread bardo
2010/1/31 Joerg Schilling : > virus_found wrote: > >> Now you know about several of those cases, for I wasn't able to burn my >> CD on a modern device (Lenovo SL500's DVD device) with cdrtools >> (alpha67, IIRC), but I was able to do it with >> cdrkit without an issue. > > There is a 99.9%

Re: [arch-general] google wave

2009-10-31 Thread bardo
2009/10/31 Mike Perry : > I don't see what the problem is. I've been wanting to play with this for > about a month now, but don't know anyone with any invites. The problem is, this is off topic, and I for one should have directed my request to a private conversation, I'm sorry for contributing to

Re: [arch-general] google wave

2009-10-31 Thread bardo
2009/10/31 Loui Chang : > Keeping emails away from google isn't even a half-measure towards > privacy. If you're actually concerned about people accessing your > private information, you'll encrypt all your data and transmissions. Don't know why you replied to me, I fully agree with you :) When I

Re: [arch-general] google wave

2009-10-31 Thread bardo
2009/10/31 Heiko Baums : > And with Google!? I don't understand how one can be interested in > letting Google read and use his/her personal e-mails, documents etc. I'm very careful about my privacy. My google account doesn't usually host private/work e-mails, for those ones I have an account with

Re: [arch-general] google wave

2009-10-31 Thread bardo
2009/10/31 Artyom Smirnov : >> Usually I don't ask for such things, but I could really use an invite >> right now: wave seems the perfect tool to coordinate my work with some >> people... If you still have a spare one, I'd be grateful if you sent >> it to me. >> >> Thanks, >> Corrado >> > Sent. Th

Re: [arch-general] google wave

2009-10-31 Thread bardo
2009/10/31 Artyom Smirnov : > Just got another 12 invites in my account. Sending one to you. Usually I don't ask for such things, but I could really use an invite right now: wave seems the perfect tool to coordinate my work with some people... If you still have a spare one, I'd be grateful if you

Re: [arch-general] pulseaudio troubles

2009-10-04 Thread bardo
feedback from the community on this point, however. Attaching the script to the wiki and removing it from the package could be another good solution. bardo

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] gpm-1.20.6-2

2009-10-01 Thread bardo
2009/10/1 Celti : > I use it. Not often, I'll admit, but having it comes in handy at least > once a month. Same for me. Also, links -g requires it to work properly from a tty. It's great for looking for documentation when X breaks :) bardo

Re: [arch-general] kernel 2.6.31-1

2009-09-11 Thread bardo
2009/9/10 Tobias Powalowski : > Hi guys, > kernel 2.6.31 first test run ... Hi Tobias, could you please upload the Arch patch to the FTP? Thanks, Corrado

Re: [arch-general] adding stb-admin GID to wiki

2009-08-10 Thread bardo
2009/8/10 Aaron Griffin : >> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:UID_/_GID_Database > > This is only for officially supported GIDs. What package uses stb-admin? Sorry for the thread hijacking (it seems to be my favorite sport, lately). I'm still waiting for some dev adopting pulseaud

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] vc/* -> tty* transition

2009-07-18 Thread bardo
2009/7/19 Thomas Bächler : > We have to think about what's simpler here: Have a short and safe sed-line > in post_upgrade, or have a shitload of users spend their time booting with > live CDs and editing files /and opening bugs and shouting in the forums and > crying on the mailing lists/ because t

Re: [arch-general] Perplexing libjpeg-related packaging issue

2009-07-15 Thread bardo
2009/7/15 Thomas Bächler : > What readelf said is what is written in the binary. If the binary says > libjpeg.so.62, then it's an old binary! You're right. I reverted back to the puzzle.ch mirror and I saw it didn't sync properly, it still has the old mldonkey. Thanks for clarifications =) Corrad

Re: [arch-general] Perplexing libjpeg-related packaging issue

2009-07-15 Thread bardo
2009/7/15 bardo : > Yes, i686, but just to be sure I checked on both arches, and I get the > new version. The problem has been solved by switching repos. Could it be that mldonkey just linked to libjpeg.so, and readelf recurred to libjpeg.so.62, while the program said it didn't find

Re: [arch-general] Perplexing libjpeg-related packaging issue

2009-07-15 Thread bardo
2009/7/15 Allan McRae : > Strange - both using the same architecture? Yes, i686, but just to be sure I checked on both arches, and I get the new version.

Re: [arch-general] Perplexing libjpeg-related packaging issue

2009-07-15 Thread bardo
2009/7/15 bardo : > It worked for me, but it seems it did not for the user, so I'm waiting > to know which mirror he uses and readelf's output. He uses archlinux.puzzle.ch... I had problems in the last few days with it too, so I switched to another one, maybe this caused the issue

Re: [arch-general] Perplexing libjpeg-related packaging issue

2009-07-15 Thread bardo
2009/7/15 Allan McRae : > If a full update does not help, you might want to try lddd from devtools to > try and find what is still using libjpeg6. It worked for me, but it seems it did not for the user, so I'm waiting to know which mirror he uses and readelf's output. Corrado

Re: [arch-general] Perplexing libjpeg-related packaging issue

2009-07-15 Thread bardo
2009/7/15 bardo : > The package was created with makechrootpkg in a clean chroot. How is > it even possible to link with two different versions of the same > library? And where did it get the old version, since it didn't exist > in the chroot? I may start to understand... The com

[arch-general] Perplexing libjpeg-related packaging issue

2009-07-15 Thread bardo
Hi guys. Yesterday I rebuild mldonkey since it depended on libjpeg. On x86_64 there are no problems, and everything works as expected; this is not the case for i686, where there's a strange problem: [r...@plafone ~]# ldd /usr/bin/mldonkey | grep libjpeg libjpeg.so.7 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.

[arch-general] 32bit chroot in 64bit guest

2009-07-14 Thread bardo
d 'makepkg' commangs used are *outside* the chroot? Shouldn't they be run through 'mkarchroot -r' to allow cross compilation? Or am I missing something (as usual)? bardo

Re: [arch-general] libreadline.so issues

2009-07-14 Thread bardo
2009/7/14 Vincent Van Houtte : > 2009/7/14 bardo >> Firefox "a simple webbrowser"? You're joking, I hope... > > I was pointing at the discussion some years ago between MS and the EC that > Internet Explorer could not be removed from the operating system :) I d

Re: [arch-general] libreadline.so issues

2009-07-14 Thread bardo
2009/7/14 Vincent Van Houtte : > Again, I know I have to keep my Archlinux-systems up to date, but I didn't > have the time to completely update that particular pc, still wanting to > update firefox since my grandfather *only* uses firefox on his computer. I > just didn't know pacman didn't handle

Re: [arch-general] libreadline.so issues

2009-07-14 Thread bardo
2009/7/14 Vincent Van Houtte : > I had the same problem after installing firefox without updating the whole > system. Only core, extra, community in use - no testing... Your mirror probably synced while the move was in progress, this is called bad luck ;) Anyway, selective upgrades are known to br

Re: [arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-13 Thread bardo
2009/6/13 Thomas Bächler : > syslog-ng uses root:log in its default configuration. If it doesn't check > /etc/syslog-ng.conf.pacnew and see if the log group exists for you. I'll almost hijack the thread because I have an issue open with log files in a [community] package, mldonkey. This package ha

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

2009-05-20 Thread bardo
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. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. : >> >                 >> >                         >> >                 >> >> I think this m

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

2009-05-19 Thread bardo
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 PolicyKit didn't support group matches. A quick look to the PolicyKit.conf(5) man page seems to confirm this is still the ca

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] (partially) Inactive

2009-05-07 Thread bardo
2009/5/6 Thomas Bächler : >> I am an university student so I can use from 08AM to 07PM (GMT+1) the >> wireless connection at my university but it is over HTTP proxy: I will >> cannot use ssh/cvs/git/ftp/irc/jabber protocols. >> >> I hope to be totally active soon. > > You should complain about that

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28.1-1

2009-01-21 Thread bardo
2009/1/21 bardo : > 2009/1/21 David Rosenstrauch : >> I tried everything that everyone suggested in this thread, but no dice. >> Definitely a bug in 2.6.28. :-( > > I managed to get a partial success (most of my mixer got back, but > sound still doesn't come out,

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28.1-1

2009-01-21 Thread bardo
2009/1/21 David Rosenstrauch : > I tried everything that everyone suggested in this thread, but no dice. > Definitely a bug in 2.6.28. :-( I managed to get a partial success (most of my mixer got back, but sound still doesn't come out, and I think it's because of a missing switch) by using the l

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28.1-1

2009-01-20 Thread bardo
2009/1/20 Attila : > I suggest to do this > > MODULES=(!pcspkr tun fuse loop) > > but from my view the most problem with this "very usefull" -)) pcspkr is that > he wants to grab the first slot. > > You can avoid this with a file and mine looks so: > > # cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound > options snd-hda-

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28.1-1

2009-01-20 Thread bardo
2009/1/20 David Rosenstrauch : > Not really. In theory this should be a matter of doing like bardo said: Bardo... which would always mean me =) > find out which chipset your machine uses, and then find the correct "model" > parameter to supply for that chipset (via this

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28.1-1

2009-01-20 Thread bardo
2009/1/19 David Rosenstrauch : > FYI - I'm seeing a problem with the 2.6.28-3 kernel. For some reason > there's no sound coming out of either the speakers or the headphones on my > laptop (Dell Precision M4400) after the upgrade. > > Sound module is snd-hda-intel. I checked volume is up, mute is

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28.1-1

2009-01-19 Thread bardo
2009/1/19 David Rosenstrauch : > No, I don't pass any model parameter, partly because I didn't know about > this parm until recently, and partly because I'm not sure what the correct > value should be. ("head -n 1 /proc/asound/card0/codec#0" says "IDT > 92HD71B7X", but I'm not sure where to go to

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28.1-1

2009-01-19 Thread bardo
2009/1/19 David Rosenstrauch : > FYI - I'm seeing a problem with the 2.6.28-3 kernel. For some reason > there's no sound coming out of either the speakers or the headphones on my > laptop (Dell Precision M4400) after the upgrade. > > Sound module is snd-hda-intel. I checked volume is up, mute is

Re: [arch-general] Error with makepkg installing dependency

2009-01-17 Thread bardo
2009/1/17 Baho Utot : >>> The tools are in a broken state until pacman 3.3 >> >> To be more correct and polite, let's say the packages are currently in >> a transition period related to info pages handling, and the tools have >> no workarounds for making this transition period smoother until 3.3. >

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28-3

2009-01-06 Thread bardo
2009/1/6 Tobias Powalowski : > Hi guys, new kernel adresses the following things: > [CUT] This is the same message you sent for 2.6.28-2. And... on the wrong list =)

Re: [arch-general] Pushing Updates

2008-11-05 Thread bardo
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Sujith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I maintain a few machines and a server in my office and I periodically > update them manually ( -Syu ). > > Is there a way to push package updates to them ? > Any project out there which does this ? The tech side of the question h

Re: [arch-general] uswsup in aur

2008-11-05 Thread bardo
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Johannes Held <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But, pm-utils needs a swap parition. And having 4gb of ram, I decided that I > won't need one.. :) Linux can also handle swap files. Corrado

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] archweb port essentially complete, please test

2008-10-23 Thread bardo
esn't do anything, adopt acts funny :-) - The newsletter page doesn't exist. I think it's intentional, but in the other cases there are links to the original external pages. HTH, bardo

Re: [arch-general] VirtualBox-ose 2.0.2 broken

2008-09-23 Thread bardo
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:52 AM, Jaime Oyarzun Knittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That solved the permissions issue, but it still can't find /dev/vboxdrv. On my machine taht device is correctly created after inserting the vboxdrv module. Corrado

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoff: xfsprogs 2.10.1 in i686 [testing]

2008-09-14 Thread bardo
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Paul Mattal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please signoff i686. Change log below. Since no dev seems to use it, I can provide basic testing for this package (fsck and such), I use it on one of my virtual machines. It doesn't seem to be in [testing] at all, though.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Risky business: udev upgrade

2008-08-30 Thread bardo
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > start_udev is still there because people were jackasses and didn't > update initscripts when they updated udev or something.. I can't > remember the issue, but it was people being foolish and expecting > their systems t

Re: [arch-general] Integrity Check

2008-08-29 Thread bardo
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Eric Belanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Packages in extra shouldn't makedepends or depends on packages from > community. Xmms is an exception. The person who initially moved it to > community didn't checked if it was required by other packages in extra. As I > ma

Re: [arch-general] Integrity Check

2008-08-29 Thread bardo
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just read one comment from Thomas : > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6841#comment32155 > > Is it fine for core package to have makedepends in extra? > What about extra and community (the xmms makedepends above)? > The second wou

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] adding http user/group to filesystems

2008-06-23 Thread bardo
I'm sorry, the first mail was incomplete. On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Arvid Ephraim Picciani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 23 June 2008 19:47:23 Aaron Griffin wrote: >> I think you're confused >> because "sane defaults" usually coincides with "defaults from >> upstream". Not all upst

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] adding http user/group to filesystems

2008-06-23 Thread bardo
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Arvid Ephraim Picciani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think you're confused >> because "sane defaults" usually coincides with "defaults from >> upstream". Not all upstream maintainers are sane. > > Right thats the phylosphical problem i have. I believe the apache p

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2008-05-16 Thread bardo
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Sten Larsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If everybody used Gmail this wouldn't be a problem :-) But privacy would. And if you're going to complain that I use gmail, too, that's for public mailing lists only. My private mail goes to a secure address. Corrado

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2008-05-15 Thread bardo
What's the problem? OMGSRY, didn't read the link, my time is valuable. On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html > > What about using a consistent style, at least for one given ML? > arch-general is really painful to read s

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] policy on desktop files?

2008-05-08 Thread bardo
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, i wanted to note that there is > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_Project maintained by bardo > a TU, which mentions absolutely nothing about upstream. > Instead it says "I (bardo

Re: [arch-general] Rename 'unstable' to 'developing'

2008-05-01 Thread bardo
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:40 PM, gan lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have community repo already, hand svn packages to community may work, but > I still think it could be better to distinguish such packages from anothers. > Unstable repo is useless if only a few people use it. Drop it if we can't

Re: [arch-general] Rename 'unstable' to 'developing'

2008-05-01 Thread bardo
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Giovanni Scafora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The unstable repo is using svn now. > Maybe, we could rename it to community? As I said, it's not so simple. AUR needs a lot of work to integrate with it, it has to understand svn commits and update pages accordingly.

Re: [arch-general] Rename 'unstable' to 'developing'

2008-05-01 Thread bardo
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Giovanni Scafora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I vote for simply giving that repo to the TUs. Why? It's true that we're all waiting for our own testing repo, but using unstable won't help: the problem is AUR integration: a lot of work still has to be done before co

Re: [arch-general] which forum to announce new AUR packages?

2008-04-27 Thread bardo
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 4:58 AM, David Rosenstrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a section of the forum to announce new AUR packages? I saw a > section to *request* them, but not one to announce. Should it get announced > there? Or is announcing not really done anymore? (I recall it us

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

2008-04-01 Thread bardo
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Dwight Schauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course German is more useful than Ruby! Phffftt... Who could > possibly not think that? > > Just consider the number of German users versus Ruby users come on now... Yeah, you're completely right. When the whole G

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

2008-04-01 Thread bardo
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ab morgen werden auch die Mailinglisten auf deutsch umgestellt. Ich > schlage vor ihr lernt ohne Babelfish deutsch zu sprechen. Keine Gegenstände aus dem Fenster werfen!

Re: [arch-general] ArchISO FTP Installer - Testers Needed

2008-03-28 Thread bardo
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Gerhard Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - km is missing to select other keyboard layout You still have the good ole loadkeys for this one. For exmple, "loadkeys it" loads the Italian layout. Corrado

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoff kernel26-2.6.24.3-6

2008-03-26 Thread bardo
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If patching is no longer allowed, get ready for a time where packages are > stuck in testing for ages because upstream broke it. Get ready to run a > distro that breaks your system on every pacman -Syu because upgrade pat

Re: [arch-general] signoff kernel26-2.6.24.3-6

2008-03-26 Thread bardo
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Filip Wojciechowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I, personally, find this divisive rhetoric of good (old) users vs. bad > (new) users, as well as good developers (who do what "we" want them to > do) vs. bad developers (who "should be kicked out") rather disturbin

Re: [arch-general] signoff kernel26-2.6.24.3-6

2008-03-26 Thread bardo
I feel the need to express my position for a variety of reasons, the most prominent being I am the one who proposed the discussion about the automatic service stopping before uninstalling. Let me state this again: I proposed the *discussion* about it, since there was no official guideline. I never

Re: [arch-general] Apple keyboard broken in [testing]

2008-03-14 Thread bardo
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 3:39 PM, bardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found out how to make F1-F4 work again: it seems the Fn button is > needed to generate the correct code with those keys, but also with > F7-F12. This can be fixed quite easily if you know how: echo 2 &g

Re: [arch-general] Apple keyboard broken in [testing]

2008-03-09 Thread bardo
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Roman Kyrylych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was a bug in kernel related to defkeymap, now fixed in the > latest kernel package, > but it was related mostly to accents, not to normal keycodes. Thanks for the input, Italian accents are working fine though: àè

Re: [arch-general] Apple keyboard broken in [testing]

2008-03-09 Thread bardo
As it always happens after sending an e-mail, there's an update a few minutes later... On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 3:28 PM, bardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > few days ago the F1-F4 keys stopped working, and the ` and < keys were > swapped I found out how to make F1-F4 work ag

[arch-general] Apple keyboard broken in [testing]

2008-03-09 Thread bardo
Hi all. I'm experiencing a strange problem with my Apple aluminium keyboard: a few days ago the F1-F4 keys stopped working, and the ` and < keys were swapped (meaning: pressing one of the keys gives the output of the other). If I changed my layout the same two keys were swapped, even though they no

Re: [arch-general] [x-post] Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.24.3-2

2008-03-05 Thread bardo
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Tobias Powalowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > could you show me the lsmod output? > and did you reboot the pc? Beginning to understand. When I first updated the kernel the modules were loaded and I didn't reboot. So, with 2.6.24.3-1 I had to blacklist snd-rtctim

[arch-general] [x-post] Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.24.3-2

2008-03-05 Thread bardo
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Tobias Powalowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sure, but that doesn't answer my question- can a real time clock still > > be used for sound? It appears not. Are we sure we don't need one of > > the two options available (RTC or RTC_GEN)? > > > > -Dan > Hi >

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] AUR Release 1.5.0

2008-02-19 Thread bardo
2008/2/19, Simo Leone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I will be updating the AUR on main site sometime this evening. Great release! I've been waiting for it or quite some time... Package browsing order is somewhat broken, though: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9615 And one more notice for the Italian tran

Re: [arch-general] Qjackctl won't open since latest updates

2008-01-29 Thread bardo
2008/1/29, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks for that Corrado. Problem resolved for me, and hopefully your bug > report will be resolved successfully. No problem... I had the library and just ran pacman -Qo on it =) Just for reference, the bug report can be found here: http://bugs.archlinu

Re: [arch-general] Qjackctl won't open since latest updates

2008-01-29 Thread bardo
2008/1/29, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ qjackctl > qjackctl: error while loading shared libraries: libaudio.so.2: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ libaudio.so.2 is contained in the 'nas' package, installing it should so

Re: [arch-general] question about vlc package

2008-01-18 Thread bardo
2008/1/18, François Charette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Today I needed to look at a video stream (with firefox) that required > the vlc mozilla plugin. So I installed the vlc package but was surprised > that it does not provide the plugin. I remember the mozilla plugin was disabled from the build beca

Re: [arch-general] arch32 -> arch64 migration without reinstalling

2008-01-17 Thread bardo
Sorry for the late answer, been busy lately. 2008/1/11, Tobias Powalowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > well i would recommend save the list of packages you have and don't format > your /home partition, then start with new x86_64 else it's weird i think. I know it's weird. Otherwise I wouldn't have aske

[arch-general] arch32 -> arch64 migration without reinstalling

2008-01-11 Thread bardo
Since I've already got a 32bit laptop, I was thinking of migrating my Core 2 Duo to arch64 (as a TU it would be really helpful for building new packages and helping the other packagers). Now, this desktop is my main system, so I'm not really happy with the idea of reinstalling and reconfiguring eve

Re: [arch-general] Comment box in flag package Out-of-date

2008-01-09 Thread bardo
2008/1/9, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Right. Let me rephrase that a little. I don't think they need > explanations that would overflow that box, except for possible URL > runoff, but that's to be expected I think I'm with Karolina here, I remember I had the same impression a couple of tim

[arch-general] Advanced pacman dependency functions

2007-12-22 Thread bardo
Hi all. I was looking for a way to do a couple of things with pacman that may be useful, mainly for package maintainers. Maybe they can already be done and I just didn't find out how. I used to use pt-deptree, but it hasn't been working for quite some time now. The first one is finding all the pa

Re: [arch-general] problem compiling for i586 with new makepkg

2007-12-15 Thread bardo
2007/12/15, Karolina Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To edit each and every PKGBUILD for each and every package and every update > appears like quite a big work. If you use pacman-git (which a lot of people is using without too much hassle, actually it's really stable) you'll find the -A option:

Re: [arch-general] Xfce plugins

2007-12-08 Thread bardo
2007/12/8, _saiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The data in that tip/popup, or whatever u call it (stats of transfer > speed etc..), got updated while i just had mouse over it > Now i have to constantly move the mouse over the trigger area that > raises the tip so that the data inside gets updated. I not

Re: [arch-general] Mailing list rename

2007-11-30 Thread bardo
2007/11/30, Hussam Al-Tayeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ok, I see it is a matter of taste so my opinion may be different than > you. But if a 4 word footer is intrusive, then maybe signatures should > be disallowed as well. No one really needs to know what company X works > for or what his/her GNU/Linux