Re: [arch-general] .bashrc not executed on login

usually someone forgot to do chmod 755 ./.bashrc . On Sat, 10 Dec 2011, G. Schlisio wrote: > Hello all, > if i execute 'sudo su -' roots .bashrc is obviously not executed, so my > aliases are not loaded. > file properties are 751 root:root > did i miss something important? > thanks > > ---

Re: [arch-general] Top Posting Revisited

On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > -Original Message- > From: arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org on behalf of Calvin Morrison > Sent: Fri 12/16/2011 04:21 > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Top Posting Revisited > > On 15 December 2011 22:07,

Re: [arch-general] install problem

I got a sata disk in a tower too recently. Sometimes after booting it's necessary for me to hit the leftmost sata disk button then hit the computer reset button to bring up a sata partition available for other software to find and then use. On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Peter Nikolic wrote: > On Wedne

[arch-general] arch with sata drives

So far as I can tell, it works fine and arch has no problem with amd K8 machines either. I have Tim Brennan's talking arch installed on a 1.5TB sata disk and that was something debian couldn't do. Slackware also had no problem with the sata drive either. --

[arch-general] command line utility questions

What does arch linux use for burning cd's and dvd's? It's not cdrecord or wodim I checked for those two and found nothing, unless I need to add a repository to my searching. Also what does arch linux use for a spreadsheet for command line users? Finally, what would a pacman search designed t

[arch-general] apparently bash export is broken for users

I tried setting up emacspeak and emacspeak needs two variables exported to the user's .profile file in order to work. The EMACSPEAK_DIR variable needs to point at the location of emacspeak and DTK_PROGRAM needs to point at the speech server you intend to use. The export commands did not creat

[arch-general] export works, emacspeak doesn't

I think I know why too. emacspeak needs tcl8.4 library to even build the eflite server. I'll check and see if I can get the espeak server up without it next. Jude

[arch-general] export runs and emacspeak doesn't

Okay, changing DTK_PROGRAM=espeak produced identical results to DTK_PROGRAM=eflite which is process no speaker running as the final message in emacspeak. Apparently both servers need -Ltcl8.4. This is good to know since now I get some disk space back.

[arch-general] wodim unuseable

Track01 on dvd's always comes up with unknown length when trying to burn a dvd with wodim. That's out of two different containers of dvd's too. These dvd's are single-sided so no danger of blue ray being used here. Fortunately I can do the burn with another system. --

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

What's happening over here is I type cdrecord, but wodim gets run. If I were to nuke wodim would that clear this problem? On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Joerg Schilling wrote: > gt wrote: > > > I do have cdrtools installed, and k3b does detect cdrecord, mkisofs, > > readcd etc. > > > > But still k3b sa

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

Thanks much for the help on cdrtools I got it built and installed along with dvdrwtools and probably sometime this weekend will do a proper burn of a dvd with it. On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Joerg Schilling wrote: > gt wrote: > > > > > Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable > > > > K3b uses dvd+rw-

[arch-general] aria2c left a mess on system

I've now cleared it off, but what had happened was a download of an iso with a torrent file and afterwards the iso had a unique inode it couldn't be checked with md5sum because md5sum claimed it didn't exist. I didn't even try it with the asc file since md5sum didn't work. Also the file comma

[arch-general] a couple cdrecord questions

This is NEC hardware here and I'm always issued two warnings whenever I try to burn anything. The first is that input buffer cannot be read and the second is that the dma speed test is skipped. What things can I change in order to clear these warnings?

[arch-general] mkisofs question

Can any options be used with mkisofs to tell it if an single image will have a size larger than 1 dvd can hold, make as many additional images as necessary so that everything will fit on more than a single dvd? Jude

[arch-general] elinks is unverifiable

Script started on Sun Apr 1 10:40:14 2012 [root@localhost ~]# exitpacman -Ss soundsexitpacman -Sy elinks :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts..

Re: [arch-general] elinks is unverifiable

Thanks, the pacman-key command did the trick. Jude

[arch-general] can alsa be adjusted to clear these logon errors?

localhost login: ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side ALSA lib setup.c:344:(snd_config_get_ctl_elem_value) bad valu

[arch-general] run alsactl as root

done, and this is the logon output: localhost login: ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side ALSA lib setup.c:344:(snd

Re: [arch-general] Emacs is Broken!

Steve, if you're using speakup, is your cursor parked? On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Steve Holmes wrote: > No answere here. All I see is quoted text from my original message. Try > again? > > On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 01:20:11AM -0400, Jeremy Allard wrote: > > Le 9 avril 2012 00:10, Steve Holmes a ?crit

[arch-general] dos emulation programs error out

I just tried dosbox and it errors out on sdl since sdl can't open mouse. I have a logitech inc. iFeel mouse attached to this machine too and so far as I know it does work. The only reason I attached the mouse is since dosbox appears to require it for operation. I'll have to temporarily insta

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD-perl.proto

Last perl build broke my instance of perl and made it necessary to reinstall archlinux or try to. Maybe I'll get that done tomorrow. On Sat, 2 Jun 2012, Myra Nelson wrote: > While working on some AUR packages, I took a look at the PKGBUILD > prototypes that come with pacman. The one difference

[arch-general] archlinux install failed

I was using the material on the archlinux wiki page in arch-linux for the blind and ran into an error. Instruction 5 started the problem in which alsa-utils and espeakup and speakup get copied to the machine. I was told no updates were done and that no servers were configured for pacman when I

Re: [arch-general] archlinux install failed

The original problem happened after a server was selected up in step 1 of the /arch/setup program and it happened after several megs of files including the kernel had already been downloaded. On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, S?bastien Leblanc wrote: > It appears you have to setup your preferred mirror in >

Re: [arch-general] [cdrecord] Problems with original cdrecord on latest linux kernel

Your drive could need cleaning, or have worn out, or in some way have been disconnected. Those kind of drives have to be replaced every so often. If it's a usb drive, have you done a modprobe usbmass yet? If not, that may be all you need to get things going. If you read dmesg does the cd dr

[arch-general] btrfs talking install question

in the install boot loader step I noticed speakup was not mentioned in any of the append lines for btrfs when the configuration file was put into the editor. Will speakup=soft added to the append line enable a talking arch linux installation given everything else was done on the arch linux ins

[arch-general] talking arch disk and instructions were both outdated here

I'll have to download a newer copy of the talking arch disk among other things that takes account of pacstrap and uses the arch scripts rather than the framework to install archlinux. The braille instructions I made are also outdated so I'll fix that after some reading. Earlier this morning I

Re: [arch-general] New dual install iso -- Where the heck is arch-setup??

There's a beginner's guide which is not terse too. I probably managed to get arch installed with it but it isn't verbal yet. The older tactic of adding speakup and speakup_soft to MODULES line in /etc/rc.conf and alsa and espeakup to DAEMONS line in /etc/rc.conf then running grub-install and

Re: [arch-general] Installation_Guide - fix concerning bootloader config reference

According to beginner's guide, grub-install /dev/sda is the next command and mk-grubconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg is the next command after that. On Sun, 5 Aug 2012, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > One place the Installation_Guide could be improved is regarding the > bootloader > instal

Re: [arch-general] Installation_Guide - fix concerning bootloader config reference

The whole point is, if you're reading the install guide you don't need any information in the beginners guide. At the very beginning of each of those guides the intended audiences are described. On Sun, 5 Aug 2012, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 08/05/2012 06:10 PM, Jude D

Re: [arch-general] Installation_Guide - fix concerning bootloader config reference

Another problem documented is that cfdisk makes a system incompatible for grub2 installation since grub2 expects everything to start at sector 2048 and cfdisk starts everything at sector 63. On Tue, 7 Aug 2012, Mauro Santos wrote: > On 06-08-2012 23:20, David C. Rankin wrote: > > > I noticed t

[arch-general] my intro

I install chris brannon's talking arch linux a little earlier this weekend. It was not the first Linux I've installed either. I use the talking version since I can't see anything at all. For as small a Linux as this is it's impressive. We need a foomatic-rip package though because my parall

Re: [arch-general] my intro

There were two accessibility developments that made this possible. First the speakup project http://www.linuxspeakup.org/ was the first. Then there was the espeakup project. The Linux Speakup project made Linux talk over a set ofhardware speech synthesizers. Then the espeakup project added

Re: [arch-general] my intro

I found the aur link on the archlinux.org page but so far, pacman isn't searching and accessing aur. Is this something that can be done or is this better done with a different tool? On Sun, 8 Aug 2010, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: On 08.08.2010 04:02, Jude DaShiell wrote: I install

[arch-general] parallel printer set up with archlinux

I almost have everything working. The foomatic-rip driver Panasonic/Epson is reported as unavailable by lpstat -d /dev/lp0 -p . If that's in the foomatic-db package I downloaded, what should I use to locate it in all of those files? The printer won't be handling any postscript and is only in

[arch-general] parallel printer set up status

I found out for the missing driver to install ghostscript and now the driver isn't missing anymore. I plan to put cupsd in the daemons line of rc.conf probably at its end and that should prevent errors from popping up and the inability for cupsd to come up automatically on boot up.

Re: [arch-general] parallel printer status with archlinux

That did it. All that was needed was to include cups in the daemons line and the cupsd daemon now starts up automatically.

Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format

One of the more important fields missing from many Linux distros mirror lists is the geographical location field that would provide a country and a state/province for each mirror. That information is stored in some data base on the internet, but not everybody who looks at a mirror list for the

Re: [arch-general] my intro

On 09.08.2010 01:33, Jude DaShiell wrote: I found the aur link on the archlinux.org page but so far, pacman isn't searching and accessing aur. Is this something that can be done or is this better done with a different tool? You should try installing an AUR helper, it will make your lif

[arch-general] /etc/profile PATH variable wrong

In order for that to be correct it needs to also have :/usr/local/bin inside of the quote marks. The /usr/local/bin directory on Linux systems like slackware and debian is where stuff gets put that anyone can execute that's on the system. I put a simple shell script I wrote there then tried t

[arch-general] suggestions for astrolog package on aur

For ecraven specifically, the astrolog package needs its astrolog.dat file packaged with it since the astrolog.dat file controls the operation of astrolog itself. I was able to fix that deficit after having downloaded and installed the aur package as a result of prior use of the software. That

[arch-general] one suggestion for aur edbrowse package

In its present configuration it's a good package. However someone who unpacks the edbrowse package for the first time ought to be told while running as a user account to prepare to use edbrowse for the first time first run the setup.ebrc package. Once that's done, necessary set up edbrowse ne

Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format

s. I agree with you in these days of broad band connections and ethernet cards such things maybe ought not to matter all that much but apparently they do to other webmasters and ftpadmins. On Sat, 14 Aug 2010, C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: O

Re: [arch-general] /etc/profile PATH variable wrong

On Sun, 15 Aug 2010, Chris Brannon wrote: Jude DaShiell writes: In order for that to be correct it needs to also have :/usr/local/bin inside of the quote marks. The /usr/local/bin directory on Linux systems like slackware and debian is where stuff gets put that anyone can execute that'

Re: [arch-general] 2.6.35.4-1 still hangs waiting on udev with usbhid errors

I've tried sever reinstalls of talking archlinux after the August 19, 2010 kernel update and though the Linux installs, it never comes up talking. The sound card device of course is controled by udev so this explains the reason for the failures. I'm doing internet installs since that's how tha

[arch-general] archlinux hardware question

Has anyone managed to get archlinux up and running on either a sled drive or a full-sized usb drive yet. Another Linux system I have couldn't even detect the disk drive was in the machine and I gave it my best hard drive too. Slackware has no problem with the drive, but Debian squeeze or an e

Re: [arch-general] archlinux hardware question

A sled drive puts an internal drive into a sled case. Then the user slides the sled case along tracks installed for that purpose into the computer and in order to use it must lock the drive with a key. You can put operating systems on different hard drives that way and if one gets compromised

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

You should know replacing Oracle OpenOffice also does the accessibility crowd that uses orca a huge favor too. The Libri OpenOffice packages work better with Orca in several versions and don't crash because orca is running on the systems.On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > On 07.03

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

For such a transition, I think it will be helpful for everybody using arch-linux to name aall libri-openoffice packages libri-openoffice-supported and all oracle-openoffice packages oracle-openoffice-unsupported. Debian at any rate has a playground area where unsupported packages go within its

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011/3/9 Jude DaShiell : > > For such a transition, I think it will be helpful for everybody using > > arch-linux to name aall libri-openoffice packages > > libri-openoffice-supported and all oracle-openoffice packages > > oracle-openoffice-unsupported. Debian at any rate

Re: [arch-general] Can a ISP modify incoming http traffic to display ads using transparent proxy server ?

I suggest you install addblocker in the firefox add-ons. On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 12:15 +0530, Partha Chowdhury wrote: > > My ISP is running a transparent proxy server on port 80 as I found out > > from this thread > > > > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipe

Re: [arch-general] deprecate grub (legacy) - opinion?

grub legacy is all that will install on my amd k8 computer for some strange reason at least according to debian when I try upgrading grub. On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, KESHAV P.R. wrote: > Hi all, > I want your opinion regarding whether grub-legacy (core/grub) > package should be deprecated (dow

Re: [arch-general] new TalkingArch ISOs available!

It might be possible to write a script which does all of those Linux commands on the wiki page automatically at the right time during the installation. We might call that the arch-extra script and have people run that script as a single step during the installation. Probably every Linux distr

Re: [arch-general] systemd pulseaudio

Please run pulseaudio --cleanup-shm then run pulseaudio --start then run echo $? and see if you get a zero back. I'm on debian now and dumped pulseaudio completely since it got in the way of too many things and made an attempt to install a desktop environment unmanageable. But this should get

Re: [arch-general] systemd pulseaudio

Can you do lspci -v? That may at least tell you what pulseaudio fails to recognize. On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Arno Gaboury wrote: > On 29/08/12||05:37, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Please run pulseaudio --cleanup-shm then run pulseaudio --start then run > > echo $? and see if you get a

Re: [arch-general] systemd pulseaudio

pulseaudio and keep it off of your system in the future. On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Arno Gaboury wrote: > On 29/08/12||05:59, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Can you do lspci -v? That may at least tell you what pulseaudio fails to > > recognize. On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Arno Gaboury wrote: > >

Re: [arch-general] GDM and/or PulseAudio mute my sound

You are not the only one experiencing this problem. This isn't even unique to archlinux either. Wherever pulseaudio is installed, it brings with it chaos and destruction. When I do any install of Linux, if the sound card isn't working it's impossible since I'm totally blind and if the Linux

[arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux

I am learning more about my hardware doing an archlinux installation on an amd k8 athelon system. Apparently grub won't work without use of blocklists and it complains that blocklists are unreliable so cannot embed and for that reason won't install. Fortunately another boot loader other than

Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux

On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Curtis Shimamoto wrote: > On 09/09/12 at 11:15pm, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I am learning more about my hardware doing an archlinux installation on an > > amd k8 athelon system. Apparently grub won't work without use of > > blocklists and it com

Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux

On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Bjoern Franke wrote: > > > > > > I had intended to install grub into mbr on /dev/sda1. I used > > --target=i386-pc as provided in the grub-install step and did so with > > misgivings since the machine I use is an x86-64 machine. The only x86-64 > > target on the arch b

[arch-general] almost got archlinux installed

When I boot the computer with the arch hard drive in it, the system waits until I hit enter to start talking. Not a problem since it does talk but only for a few seconds then espeak turns off. If I log in very quickly, I get a root prompt. If I wait for a few seconds after that then espeak g

Re: [arch-general] almost got archlinux installed

The system is only a c.l.i. system so far since I first get the command line working then get interested in g.u.i. later maybe. I'll adjust those timeouts down to about 20. The first time I got archlinux to boot it said it failed to create a secured or secure file system so it may be possible

[arch-general] beginner's guide question networking

I did the steps for networking setup in beginner's guide on the archlinux wiki and was told that the second network setup would make the network persistent. I noticed in the section for wireless both auto-net-wireless and auto-net-wired were mentioned but auto-net-wired was not mentioned as a

[arch-general] syslinux material in beginner's guide

The line syslinux.cfg leaves as root=/dev/sda3 ro if the example in the beginner's guide is followed needs to be changed to: root=/dev/sda1 rw I am having further problems with the archlinux installation but these are off topic for this message.

Re: [arch-general] almost got archlinux installed

First, the hack to force the sound card on and to be unmuted does work. I put it into /etc/profile since that should apply to the whole system. I did manage to get dmesg output saved to a file. I'll see if I can get that copied to another place where it can be shared later. I failed to crea

[arch-general] mostly successful install of talkingarchlinux

Two situations are a bit puzzling after installation for me. 1) on booting the system it doesn't matter what is in syslinux.cfg, enter must be hit to turn sound on and finish the login. I've adjusted prompt from 0 to 1 and it had no effect. The second puzzle is a bit more troublesome and has to

[arch-general] linux-lts question before reinstall

When I do a system install, can I add linux-lts to the pacstrap command line and have the installer prevent other less desireable linux kernels from being installed? --- jude Adobe fiend for failing to Flash

Re: [arch-general] almost got talking arch installed

I put the fixes in on /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg and was successful in First running initcpio -p linux-lts had no problems running and I pointed everything to linux-lts in /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg. Then I rebooted the system. I let the computer alone for 8 hours then returned and hit ente

Re: [arch-general] almost got latest talkingarch installed

One thing I forgot to write up. After booting into new system, hitting keys on keypad does not crash the system and those keys perform the expected speakup functions so the system is definitely using linux-lts and not the flake default kernel. --

Re: [arch-general] / mounted ro after update

Whenever does an install of archlinux, they also do a big update so it's safe to say I got nailed by this problem too. I'm not going to dismiss out of hand the probability that util-linux is at fault, but when I tried the installs this past weekend I suspected mkinitcpio or perhaps syslinux-in

[arch-general] installation file format question

What is the command to put xfs file formatting on partitions? I have arch on a separate disk so can try an installation with xfs probably tomorrow morning. --- jude Adobe fiend for failing to Flash

Re: [arch-general] / mounted ro after update

n Tue, 18 Sep 2012, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 09/18/2012 03:53 AM, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:47:26 -0400 (EDT) > > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > > >Whenever does an install of archlinux, they also do a big update so > > > >it's

Re: [arch-general] / mounted ro after update

What's a good size number for a /boot partition? Needs to be large enough kernel updates don't break the computer if possible or a reasonable estimate to that end. On Fri, 21 Sep 2012, Guus Snijders wrote: > Op 20 sep. 2012 10:03 schreef "Jude DaShiell" het > volg

[arch-general] finally got a talking archlinux installed!

Creation of a separate /boot partition helped. I did it with syslinux, and have partition structure of /dev/sda1 /boot 50MB /dev/sda2 swap 1024MB /dev/sda3 /mnt 15440MB and /dev/sda4 /home remainder of the disk. Since in this configuration, /dev/sda3 correctly points to /root I left it alone

[arch-general] courier-maildrop package failed installation

I tried that delivery agent and authgen library failed to install and later I couldn't get it started. Fortunately procmail posed no similar problems on installation. Is courier-maildrop not supported for amd64 k8 athelon machines? If that's the case that would explain this failure. I can i

Re: [arch-general] Iinstallation program

One thing I like about the current arch install methodology is that it's incremental. If you don't have time to finish the install in one sitting all you need do is remember which step last completed then start up the computer and carry on from there at some later time. Since alternatives exi

Re: [arch-general] LibreOffice 3.6.3-2 in testing is awfully broken.

On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, fredbezies wrote: > Hello. > > I noticed that last testing version of LibreOffice simply doesn't > start. When I try to launch it in terminal, I got this : > > [fred@fredo-arch ~]$ /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: symbol > lookup error: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio update - mpd now refuses to play as same user

On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > > On Nov 19, 2012 10:27 AM, "Oon-Ee Ng" wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Jan Steffens > >wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Oon-Ee Ng > > wrote: > > > > > Hi

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio update - mpd now refuses to play as same user

On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Zeke Sulastin wrote: > > > > Earlier I couldn't get pulseaudio to stop blocking my audio for vlc and > > mplayer until I fixed this group membership problem. > > > If you're logging in with systemd, your user should definitely not be in > the 'audio' group and vlc/mplayer sh

[arch-general] ircii-current.tar.gz in aur

The package fails since one or more files fails validity checks with md5s. I have irssi working over here but was asked to install ircii and picked this version to install and the package failed validity checks twice. I tried the download twice using yaourt -S ircii-current since I wasn't sur

[arch-general] wget and sourceforge.net

I found using --max-redirect=1000 and --trust-server-names on a wget command line made downloads from sourceforge.net go much more smoothly. That way, you have to get over 1000 redirects for you download to fail. jude Twitter: @jdashiel

[arch-general] archlinux updates error reduction

I commented out mirror.abscission.net in my /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist since so far as I can tell that server runs too slow and causes yaourt to error out on it persistently. I'm using servers in the United States so this will be of no interest to foreign users of archlinux. jude Twitter: @jd

Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs. gdisk for GPT partitioning

Yes, I couldn't create an ef02 partition using fdisk. I ended up using gdisk and the job got done with no problem at all. On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Since more than a year now, fdisk (provided by util-linux) has had GPT > support. This theoretically m

Re: [arch-general] "sc" in [community]?

It would be nice if any linux console spreadsheet could somehow acquire a serious functions library. The nearest I suppose anyone can get to that goal is calc under emacs for now, or org-mode. On Sat, 14 Feb 2015, Ido Rosen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Jonathan Steel wrote: > >

[arch-general] anything in release notes cover this?

DKMS make.log for rt5592sta_linux_patched-dkms-2.6.0.0 for kernel 4.4.5-1-ARCH (x86_64) Thu Mar 10 23:37:22 EST 2016 make -C tools make[1]: Entering directory '/var/lib/dkms/rt5592sta_linux_patched-dkms/2.6.0.0/build/tools' gcc -g bin2h.c -o bin2h make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/lib/dkms/rt559

Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

On Thu, 24 Mar 2016, sc...@riseup.net wrote: Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 07:31:42 From: sc...@riseup.net Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions? Em 23/03/201

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Arch Linux website down

I've been reading a thread on aur-general about too many loose git objects and it appears the problem may be on the aur server not a user's machine and git prune needs to be run. I am concerned that all of the current technical difficulties may have been caused by some form of malware attack.

[arch-general] arch-chroot

I had been using it to install archlinux specifically talkingarchlinux. It mostly works ok until I do alsactl store and then I get a state lock error. As a result of this failure, I can finish up a talkingarch installation but on reboot, I have no speech on the system. Does a way exist I can

Re: [arch-general] time setting problem after installing.

ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York >/etc/localtime That's a one time operation and should have been one of your beginning installation steps. I got many of mine from the beginner's guide which is longer and more informative. On Sun, 3 Jul 2016, matthew dyer via arch-general wrote: D

Re: [arch-general] arch-chroot

It turns out arch-chroot is okay after all but very probably the last release of base and the last release of alsa-utils both need to go back to the factory for repairs. First base is probably implicated because after the pacstrap command was run pacstrap /mnt base base-devel espeakup alsa-uti

[arch-general] recent archlinux installation

I'm using lynx but am pretty sure this problem will happen no matter which browser I use. The browser when connecting to https::// type sites throws an ssl error because it can't get local issuer certificates. I have SSL_FILE in /etc/lynx.cfg pointed at /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certs.crt and I ran c

Re: [arch-general] recent archlinux installation

-general] recent archlinux installation Sat, 16 Jul 2016 13:33:26 -0400 (EDT) Jude DaShiell : I have SSL_FILE in /etc/lynx.cfg pointed at /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certs.crt Why? There is no such file in any Arch Linux package. Also, the option name is SSL_CERT_FILE. All you should need is &#x

Re: [arch-general] links package hasn't been updated

: Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 18:47:17 From: Alive 4ever Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux To: "arch-general@archlinux.org" Subject: Re: [arch-general] links package hasn't been updated On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 02:57:40PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Something to try as an

Re: [arch-general] Mutt Compile-time Configuration

talkingarch users who haven't got g.u.i. running may have problems with that sidebar due to graphical character output from that feature messing up their screen readers. There could be other or additional reasons I know nothing about yet too. On Fri, 19 Aug 2016, Dutch Ingraham wrote: Date:

Re: [arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

I don't know how to search waybackmachine.com but for those interested in this topic perhaps the last real beginners guide got archived over there. That's usually where old files and web pages end up. On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, Mauro Santos via arch-general wrote: Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 12:21:30 F

Re: [arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

Same here, but fortunately we have linuxquestions.com and supp...@talkingarch.tk. On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, Zachary Kline wrote: Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 12:26:35 From: Zachary Kline Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general] A

Re: [arch-general] Microsoft Signature PC Requirements Now Blocks Linux Installation

That or buy an open architecture device. The new computer I have is an open architecture computer for that very reason and I bought that last year. On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Martin K?hne via arch-general wrote: Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:55:54 From: Martin K?hne via arch-general To: General Discu

Re: [arch-general] Microsoft Signature PC Requirements Now Blocks Linux Installation

thinkpenguin.com is another open architecture vendor. On Thu, 29 Sep 2016, Christian Kruse wrote: Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 03:54:17 From: Christian Kruse Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general] Microsoft Signature PC Re

Re: [arch-general] ttf-dejavu putting files in the wrong place

When I updated that package here yesterday, I had file conflicts and resolved them by removing from /etc/fonts/conf.d and then reinstalled the package. Fortunately I don't use fonts since I've been totally blind from birth and there aren't too many other authorized sighted people looking at my

Re: [arch-general] kernel linux-4.8.6-1-x86_64 not able to load modules

That's why I installed the update-grub package a while back since grub then gets automatically updated so it uses the latest kernel to be loaded onto the machine. That's an aur package too. On Sat, 5 Nov 2016, Doug Newgard wrote: Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 09:56:13 From: Doug Newgard Reply-To: G

Re: [arch-general] espeak ng and keeping packages in the aur up todate.

Did you ever download a package from aur before? If not you can get and set up yaourt on archlinux but some edits have to be done to /etc/pacman.conf and then you need to run two pacman commands to first update your repositories and then install yaourt. I do it like this: edit /etc/pacman.co

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