Re: [arch-general] Kernel 3.13

2014-01-27 Thread phanisvara
have been using [testing] for a couple of years now and this is the first time i'm getting in trouble which i don't understand. i don't use a PS2 keyboard and was encouraged from others' positive reports with 3.13, so i upgraded. unfortunately this doesn't work with me, apparently because of

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 3.13

2014-01-27 Thread phanisvara
On Monday 27 Jan 2014 22:31:36 Nowaker wrote: i haven't seen this type of thing before and am not sure if this is bug report material or lack of understanding on my part -- and if bug report, against what, exactly? Try disabling Radeon DPM with kernel switch. I don't remember the exact

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 3.13

2014-01-27 Thread phanisvara
On Monday 27 Jan 2014 22:40:18 Timothée Ravier wrote: On 27/01/2014 21:07, phanisvara wrote: (..) Jan 28 01:58:33 phani kernel: [drm:atom_execute_table_locked] *ERROR* atombios stuck executing CEDE (len 62, WS 0, PS 0) @ 0xCEFA (...) Have a look at https://bugs.freedesktop.org

[arch-general] r8168 network driver

2013-12-09 Thread phanisvara
for the last year, or 1.5 years, i've been using r8168 from [community] because at that time r8169, which is included in the kernlel, didn't work properly. i got disconnected frequently, and often LAN speed dropped to ~0. after some kernel upgrades the r8168 driver needed to be re-built, and

[arch-general] swap not always enabled?

2013-09-14 Thread phanisvara
normally conky tells me that i'm using 0% swap. just now i noticed it showing, no swap%, which looked strange. issuing swapon -a as root changed the display back to 0%. now i'm wondering if i missed something, systemd changes perhaps, that swap doesn't get switched on unless it's needed, or if

Re: [arch-general] swap not always enabled?

2013-09-14 Thread phanisvara
On Saturday 14 Sep 2013 20:19:21 Karol Blazewicz wrote: Anything interesting in the logs? nothing a quick glance revealed. but on G+ i learned it's a known bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69291 in the meantime, swapon -a isn't too much trouble... -- phani.

Re: [arch-general] swap not always enabled?

2013-09-14 Thread phanisvara
On Saturday 14 Sep 2013 20:25:07 Tom Gundersen wrote: This is a systemd bug (caused by me), the fix is: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=90060fa66054 46bef7078867423b691e4effa575 i'm afraid for me, up-to-date arch w. [testing], the patch doesn't fix it either. reporting

Re: [arch-general] Intel SNA artifacts in Firefox

2013-08-22 Thread phanisvara
On Thursday 15 Aug 2013 13:33:50 Paul Gideon Dann wrote: Since the xf86-video-intel update that enabled SNA by default, I've noticed that some areas of some web pages (mostly flat backgrounds)... so did you follow the instruction given during the intel upgrade by pacman: This

Re: [arch-general] remote poweroff with systemd

2013-08-06 Thread phanisvara
On Monday 05 Aug 2013 18:39:22 Fons Adriaensen wrote: ssh -t remote1 sudo /sbin/init 0 ssh -t remote2 sudo /sbin/init 0 etc. This has worked well for years. Recently the machines were upgraded and mow use systemd. I replaced the original commands by ssh -t remote1 sudo telinit 0 i've

Re: [arch-general] remote poweroff with systemd

2013-08-06 Thread phanisvara
On Tuesday 06 Aug 2013 11:59:10 Armin K. wrote: Why not poweroff? Anyways, telinit and shutdown are symlinks to systemctl, so you are actualy using systemd commands thank you, good to know. i didn't get into this any further after finding something that worked...too lazy for my own good. --

Re: [arch-general] CLI diffing tool other than Vim?

2013-07-30 Thread phanisvara
On Tuesday 30 Jul 2013 09:43:02 Paul Gideon Dann wrote: Does anyone know of any good simple(ish) alternative for merging files over SSH? nano, or mc with it's in-built editor. -- phani.

Re: [arch-general] HDMI Alsa sound problem from flashplayer 64 bit

2013-02-07 Thread phanisvara das
On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 10:16:23 +0100 Cédric Girard girard.ced...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: Also I can get sound coming out of the monitor speakers with: aplay -D plughw:0,7 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav However if I run chrome and

Re: [arch-general] HDMI Alsa sound problem from flashplayer 64 bit

2013-02-07 Thread phanisvara das
On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 15:47:24 +0100 Cédric Girard girard.ced...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure if adding an extra layer which happens to bring new useful features is always the best solution to a problem. certainly not; depends on priorities. i found it easier to go with the flow, using KDE's

Re: [arch-general] need advices for the perfect web toolbox

2012-12-14 Thread phanisvara
On Friday 14 Dec 2012 12:51:20 arnaud gaboury wrote: I plan to virtualize a Arch server on my Arch box. what i don't understand is why you want to take the extra step of virtualization? you can as well run web- and other servers on your main arch instance. re. security, just have them listen

[arch-general] xf86-video-ati -- trouble ahead

2012-11-11 Thread phanisvara
as per https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56986, there's some trouble with ver. 7.0.0 of this driver. it needs KMS mode now, but according to a couple comments, it doesn't wok with that either. if it doesn't, it took me almost 5 min. to downgrade to the previous version, 6.14.6. --

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-ati -- trouble ahead

2012-11-11 Thread phanisvara
On Sunday 11 Nov 2012 21:37:17 phanisvara wrote: as per https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56986, there's some trouble with ver. 7.0.0 of this driver. it needs KMS mode now, but according to a couple comments, it doesn't wok with that either. oops, that was the upstream bug. here's

Re: [arch-general] digikam doesn't find libIlmImf.so.6 after update to openexr

2012-10-13 Thread phanisvara
On Saturday 13 Oct 2012 10:44:57 Florian Pritz wrote: digikam: error while loading shared libraries: libIlmImf.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory /usr/lib/libIlmImf.so.6 used to be provided by openexr; now it's called libIlmImf.so.7 instead.

[arch-general] digikam doesn't find libIlmImf.so.6 after update to openexr

2012-10-12 Thread phanisvara
after openexr was updated yesterday from 1.7.0-2 - 1.7.1-1, digikam failed to start with the following error: digikam: error while loading shared libraries: libIlmImf.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory /usr/lib/libIlmImf.so.6 used to be provided by openexr; now

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-11 Thread phanisvara
On Thursday 11 Oct 2012 18:18:10 Menachem Moystoviz wrote: Basically, the suggestion I'm seeing here is: go, work, get a VPS - can probably get one for cheap - and setup Arch on it. Sounds good. Will only have to figure out how to get money... seen this on G+ today. no idea if it can help you,

[arch-general] new install: files under /etc/fonts/conf.d/ not symlinks?

2012-09-12 Thread phanisvara das
a couple days ago, after the problematic fontconfig update was already done, i installed a new instance of arch no a separate partitionl (via pacman -r / chroot, from my existing, updated arch instance). now i'm surprised to find that the files under /etc/fonts/conf.d/ aren't symlinks, but real

Re: [arch-general] new install: files under /etc/fonts/conf.d/ not symlinks?

2012-09-12 Thread phanisvara das
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:41:07 +0530 phanisvara das listm...@phanisvara.com wrote: a couple days ago, after the problematic fontconfig update was already done, i installed a new instance of arch no a separate partitionl (via pacman -r / chroot, from my existing, updated arch instance). now