Re: [arch] Arch linux for a non-i686

2006-11-06 Thread michael
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 07:32 +0100, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: I recently switched to Archlinux from debian, and is quite happy with it. The switchover was not hard at all. Many things are much faster, and it is much more straightforward in its

[arch] praise for arch, introduction (was: Wrong message to the list)

2006-12-20 Thread michael
:-). I have an older laptop (Thinkpad T23) and had spent a lot of time and energy optimizing Gentoo and later Xubuntu to get the most out of it. Gave arch a try and was immediately impressed with very zippy performance and ZERO special adjustments! Keep up the great work! Michael

Re: [arch] Just to tell you what I've done yesterday

2007-01-17 Thread michael
Yes! Please! Me Too! If you had time to describe the tweaks a bit that would be great .. Michael On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Michel Di Croci wrote: Alpha2 release (downloaded it yesterday) I can provide a guide for it if you are interested. The important part was to modify the mkinitcpio to have

[arch] Too-aggresive cleaning removed my window manager: how can I re-install it (xfce4, xfwm4)

2007-02-19 Thread michael
is the window manager for xfce4, so I was wrong to remove it. No problem, a quick pacman -S got that. However, the window manager doesn't seem to be active, even after shutting down and restart my X server. Having removed it, is there something I need to do to activate it? Thanks in advance, Michael

[arch] SOLVED! Re: Too-aggresive cleaning removed my window manager: how can I re-install it (xfce4, xfwm4)

2007-02-19 Thread michael
, Michael On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was running out of space yesterday so I removed what I thought were some unnecessary packages. Not thinking clearly, I removed xfwm4, thinking that my window manager is xfce4, and that I didn't need xfwm4. When I rebooted, my

Re: [arch] SOLVED! Re: Too-aggresive cleaning removed my window manager: how can I re-install it (xfce4, xfwm4)

2007-02-19 Thread michael
know, since by exiting X I would have expected it to start the window manager. I suppose a quick inspection of the initialization scripts will answer this question for me. Thanks anyway, Michael Did you log out and back in after you reinstalled xfwm4? No; I just quit xfce4 and ran startx

Re: [arch-general] Wi-Fi rtl8192s

2012-02-06 Thread Michael
If you use NetworkManager there seems to be no problem. Gr, Michael On 02/06/2012 07:19 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi, does anybody know if the first driver mentioned here [1] is ok, in other words, won't there be dropped connections? [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup

[arch] Changing default shell

2005-05-24 Thread Michael Johnson
How do I change the default shell from bash to Zsh? Are there any caveates dong it? br /michael ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] nvidia kernel 2.6.12

2005-06-28 Thread Michael Karlsson
/Michael On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 07:28 +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Am Montag 27 Juni 2005 21:35 schrieb Douglas Soares de Andrade: Hi sn0n ! Strange thing For me it is working perfectly. I just did a pacman -S nvidia and it updated my driver and it is ok. Em Segunda 27 Junho

Re: [arch] Gnome 2.12 on Arch

2005-09-11 Thread Michael Karlsson
Yes, I run it..haven't noticed any strange problems or so...runs a little quicker than gnome 2.10 acutally, (but than might be the recent archck1 kernel that does that :D ) /CyberTron - Original Message - From: Paul Hoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: General Discusson about Arch Linux

[arch] New Swedish arch-forum

2005-09-11 Thread Michael Karlsson
Hello everyone! Hope it is ok to write this here, otherwise, sorry (and ignore :D ) I just wanted to tell everyone, especially swedish residents, that I have created a Swedish ArchLinux forum at http://www.linuxportalen.com After many thoughts and such I have decided to make myself a swedish

Re: [arch] Re: [ck] 2.6.13-archck3 - cko like patchset

2005-09-13 Thread Michael Salivar
Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere, but have you considered adding the developmental Alsa drivers like the original cko had (if I recall)? On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 17:39:49 +1000 James Rayner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, released archck3.1 This one actually has the makefile and kconfig

Re: [arch] wmi - to be or not to be

2005-09-19 Thread Michael Salivar
I think wmii is still too young, it belongs in AUR or testing. Every release so far has been a complete reinvention. Ion 3, on the other hand, is quickly reaching the status of Fluxbox, the development tree being more stable than most projects' stable branches. But I guess that's Simo's

Re: [arch] Multilingual web site for Arch Linux

2005-10-09 Thread Michael Karlsson
Hi! I think it is a great idea, i could also help out, on the swedish translation part if it comes to that... let's hear what Judd and the rest has to say though...:D /CyberTron http://www.linuxportalen.com- Arch Forums in swedish - Original Message - From: Benoit Chesneau

[arch] Forums doesn't work correctly

2005-10-18 Thread Michael Karlsson
Hi! The arch-forums doesn't work correctly, I can't post to it: *Fatal error*: Only variables can be passed by reference in */home/forum/bbs/posting.php* on line *579* and not search: *Fatal error*: Only variables can be passed by reference in */home/forum/bbs/search.php* on line *270

Re: [arch] Hello!

2005-11-04 Thread Michael Karlsson
The list aint dead, it is just not used all that much...the forums is where I hang at least :D /CyberTron jvb wrote: Hello - I'm fairly new to Arch. I do have Arch 0.7 installed and updated to current. I have been using Linux for about five years now; having used Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE,

Re: [arch] openoffice2

2005-11-06 Thread Michael Karlsson
Hi! Just change to another mirror, all mirrors haven't been updated yet /Michael CyberTron Andreas Radke wrote: S. Barret Dolph schrieb: Where is openoffice2. Noticing that openoffice2 is now on extra I thought I should remove openoffice2 and then install openoffice2 from extra. Now all

Re: [arch] arch and info

2005-11-14 Thread Michael Karlsson
I too don't find info files that useful, If I wanna get help I go to the internet and look it up or using the man files :D I love the Arch philosofy...it is great :D Michal CyberTron j l wrote: Here is one who does not miss info at all. man was there so why reinvent the wheel? --- Jaroslaw

Re: [arch] applications startup speed

2005-11-16 Thread Michael Karlsson
Hi, and welcome to arch! :D I have a thought on that, it might be that Ubuntu is pre-caching everything and Arch doesn't (unless told to i believe) but I might be totally wrong here :D but hey, welcome anyway Michael CyberTron Eric Dan wrote: hi, i have just switched to arch from ubuntu

Re: [arch] hotplugging, hotplug, hwdetect etc.

2005-11-21 Thread Michael Karlsson
that would make more sense so to speak.. /Michael CyberTron Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi yes it's a bit confusing, the hotplug daemon does only coldplugging, which means it loads modules for things it thinks it's there, nothing more. hotplug daemon is a bunch of script that are executed

[arch] dmix after alsa update

2005-11-26 Thread Michael Salivar
Is anyone else having troubles? I had just finally gotten dmix working on my ICE1712 based Audiophile 24/96 and this latest alsa update broke it horribly (horribly as in, I can't figure it out). I'm using a custom built 2.6.14 archck kernel, but this appears to be a userspace problem. Audio

Re: [arch] dmix after alsa update

2005-11-27 Thread Michael Salivar
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 10:57:42 -0700 Michael Salivar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hrm, it's still broken after downgrading to 1.0.9 for alsa-utils alsa-oss and alsa-lib. I also installed xfce4 in the same interval, which loads esd on start, but the problem also occurs on a fresh boot into blackbox

Re: [arch] Is this a bug in pacman?

2005-11-27 Thread Michael Salivar
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Salivar Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 10:38 AM To: General Discusson about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch] Is this a bug in pacman? Well, whenever you automate something you run the risk of someone being in the situation where

Re: [arch] Pre-release iso - gnome hangs

2005-11-27 Thread Michael Salivar
Gnome can be really finicky about having the loopback setup properly in /etc/hosts Mine looks like this: 127.0.0.1 daneel localhost Where daneel is the same as my hostname in /etc/rc.conf I'm not sure having that localhost there is proper, but it's worked well for

Re: [arch] xorg/gnome hanging

2005-11-28 Thread Michael Salivar
. Any way, I appreciate your suggestion. Thanks, Paul On Nov 27, 2005, at 11:46 PM, Michael Salivar wrote: Gnome can be really finicky about having the loopback setup properly in /etc/hosts Mine looks like this: 127.0.0.1 daneel localhost Where daneel

Re: [arch] earphone/line out port problem

2005-12-01 Thread Michael Tse
But my laptop was not hibernated, and I thinkmaybe it is a bug in the Linux driver. On 12/1/05, Mikael Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 01:42:43PM +0800, Michael Tse wrote: Hello, everyone! I have installed Arch 0.7.0 on my HP nc6000 laptop. But when I plug in my earphone

Re: [arch] Disappearing applications in GNOME

2005-12-04 Thread Michael Salivar
My only problem was, when I upgraded from smeg to alacarte, many of my unchecked menu entries were removed. Removing ./config/menus and starting over is all I needed, and everything works fine now. On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 10:05:37 +0100 (CET) Mark Rosenstand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Magnus

Re: [arch] IPV6 in Arch Kernel

2005-12-11 Thread Michael Salivar
I believe it's this, in /etc/sysctl.conf net.ipv4.ip_forward But I've never tried it since I always use a custom kernel anyway, for boot speed. On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:40:44 +1000 James Rayner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: n Jackson ___ arch mailing

Re: [arch] Moving /home

2005-12-13 Thread Michael Barker
I quite like the approach suggested by Alan Cox: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Tips-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.6 (cd /source/directory tar cf - . ) | (cd /dest/directory tar xvfp -) Used this when I was a sys-admin many times. If you have SMP and/or seperate physical disks it can be quicker. Mike. On

Re: [arch] 2.6.15-2 kernel (or udev?) broke ALSA

2006-01-03 Thread Michael Salivar
that make my head hurt (and downright give me a migraine after being 'translated') is that others with the error are on Emu10k1 chipsets. Hopefully I can catch something you might have missed, I don't actually have a clue what might be wrong... --- Michael no offense meant to anyone with my language

[arch] evolution dependency error

2006-01-09 Thread Michael Surette
I've been using arch for about a month now and must say that I really like it. However, I just tried to load up evolution and it says it can't find libgnome.so Doing ldconfig -v | grep -i gnome gives the following output... /opt/gnome/lib: libgnome-2.so.0 - libgnome-2.so.0.1200.0

Re: [arch] evolution dependency error

2006-01-09 Thread Michael Surette
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 14:00 -0500, Eric Belanger wrote: On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Michael Surette wrote: I've been using arch for about a month now and must say that I really like it. However, I just tried to load up evolution and it says it can't find libgnome.so Doing ldconfig -v | grep

Re: [arch] HPLIP: Please Work!

2006-02-05 Thread Michael Salivar
Out of curiosity, what's the proper way to do that? I had problems when I tried this, so I know it's not right: 127.0.0.1 demerzel.localdomain localhost So I've just been using this: 127.0.0.1 demerzel.localdomain demerzel But tonight while migrating to lprng I had problems not having

Re: [arch] HPLIP: Please Work!

2006-02-05 Thread Michael Salivar
Nevermind, I shouldn't be so lazy, I see now that a space works 127.0.0.1 demerzel.localdomain demerzel localhost On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 00:05:08 -0700 Michael Salivar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of curiosity, what's the proper way to do that? I had problems when I tried this, so I know it's

Re: [arch] Udev changes, upgraders please read!

2006-02-13 Thread Michael Blum
Thomas Bächler thomas.baechler at gmx.de writes: Tom K wrote: For those of us who build our own kernels, is it correct to say that as well as the 2.6.15 source, we also need uevent-2.6.15.patch.bz2? Yes, that patch is needed for a 2.6.15 kernel, otherwise stuff will break (in

Re: [arch] Udev changes, upgraders please read!

2006-02-13 Thread Michael Blum
Thomas Bächler thomas.baechler at gmx.de writes: Michael Blum wrote: Where do I find this patch? A quick Google search seems to turn up a number of possibilities so I am (as usual) confused. It's in the abs, with the stock kernel26 PKGBUILD. Ahh - I should have thought

Re: [arch] Orinoco wireless setup problem

2006-02-23 Thread Michael Krauss
eth1) eth0 is a onboard LAN interace with is working correctly. Hopefully this will help to solve the problem. Maybe the work ist done, when hostap can be blocked to load. With friendly greetings, Michael Krauss ___ arch mailing list arch

Re: [arch] Orinoco wireless setup problem

2006-02-23 Thread Michael Krauss
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 Michael Krauss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the next problem. Wether I put hostap and hostap_cd into MOD_BLACKLIST: MOD_BLACKLIST=(hostap hostap_cs) or put them !-ed into MODULES: MODULES=(!hostap !hostap_cs ...) both were loaded at startup. Now I have

[arch] Scim/Skim and the IME...

2006-02-24 Thread Michael Fellinger
Hey Guys, That's my first mail to that ML as you might notice, so first a little introduction :) I've been using linux for some years now (~5) but never want to bother with the configuration of the system... my first distros were suse (6.4 upto 8.2) and later on i switched to debian (somewhere in

Re: [arch] Server Donation Drive!

2006-02-25 Thread Michael Salivar
I can almost see the wave of donation return requests now I wasn't able to donate this time around, but as my computer business takes off I'll start setting aside a donation pool with each build. Congratulations on the great response to all the devs! I hope you post the full specs of the new

Re: [arch] Scim/Skim and the IME...

2006-02-25 Thread Michael Fellinger
ok, this explains some of the odd behaviour... had no idea about that :| the thing that bugs me is that i had this input working already, in kde, on arch - but after a reboot it didn't work anymore. now, it deems to me that the time it was working, i was using 'startx', after i put kdm into the

Re: [arch] Can I add pacman to slackware?

2006-03-02 Thread Michael Surette
Rafael Sorto wrote: Maybe i dont see it that way as i did my upgrade to x7 and the latest udev package , and everything else ,without any problems at all , maybe its how people make the upgrade and not the upgrade itself. :D I have been an Arch user since October 2003 when I

Re: [arch] Can I add pacman to slackware?

2006-03-02 Thread Michael Surette
Tom K wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Surette wrote: With Arch, for the OP, myself, and obviously others, critical packages needed tweeks after a minor upgrade just to work. This thread has drifted a bit OT - the OP was looking for info on porting

Re: [arch] Show of hands please

2006-04-25 Thread Michael M.
the late 1960s, when he was stationed in Thailand. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. --S. Jackson

Re: [arch] Pacman: prevent dependency from installation

2006-04-30 Thread Michael Krauss
something into the build() function, it works very well. makepkg complained about the empty build() function. Thanks Michael Krauss ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] Record Live Streams

2006-05-09 Thread Michael Salivar
streamripper On Tue, 9 May 2006 09:10:34 +0200 Thorsten Grothe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know a good and simple way to record live streams (Internet Radio) an save them to hdd? I tried kmplayer but it does not work it says that mplayer is not installed but it is

Re: [arch] Mouse Pointer Speed

2006-05-14 Thread Michael Salivar
I know GDM calls from .xprofile, maybe KDM does too since they're both derived from XDM? On Sun, 14 May 2006 09:58:06 -0500 Mike McQueen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 14 May 2006 09:39, Rohan Dhruva wrote: IIRC, ~/.xinitrc is not executed unless you use startx from terminal. If you use

Re: [arch] Mouse Pointer Speed

2006-05-14 Thread Michael Salivar
It wasn't on mine either, but now I use it to call urxvtd with GDM. It's just a non-executable dotfile in my home directory which functions like the .xinitrc does for startx. On Sun, 14 May 2006 16:27:33 -0500 Mike McQueen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What if you were to add it rc.local? Does xorg

Re: [arch] ugly fonts after freetype2 update

2006-06-22 Thread Michael Salivar
I had an issue with a few websites, but it turned out my helvetica font wasn't rendering properly. I removed that, and everything else renders just fine. I'm using shadowhand's xfce4-svn builds On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:04:08 +0500 Sergey Manucharyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, After

Re: [arch] Daemon monitoring

2006-06-28 Thread Michael Salivar
# ls /var/run/daemons On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:38:21 -0400 Andrija Perunicic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to see which daemons (from rc.d) are open at a given time? ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org

Re: [arch] Boot problem on fresh install

2006-08-15 Thread Michael Salivar
I'm thinking a misconfigured grub menu.lst I think this is what I saw when I was having trouble booting from an onboard SATA controller with drives present on a 3ware RAID controller. Basically, it was mixing up the order of hard drives between the installer's kernel and device mapping and the

Re: [arch] ARCH is the only one which works with jmicron controller

2006-10-20 Thread Michael Towers
Attila wrote: Hi, normally i ask things if i write here an message but i want to use the chance to say a positiv thing. I have a new pc (MSI 975X Platinium Power up Edition) and i spent the night with searching a live cd with whom i can transfer my backup to this new pc. No one can find

Re: [arch] Python and Ruby update

2006-11-06 Thread Michael Fellinger
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 21:41, Douglas Soares de Andrade wrote: Hi, Is there any plans to update python and ruby in current repository ? Both have new versions and python gained some interesting updates like the builtin elementtree and sqlite modules and some new languages goodies. I

Re: [arch] 2 Linux distros on the same partition

2006-12-04 Thread Michael Towers
I'm no expert, but I suspect that it is non-trivial to achieve what you want. My suggestion would be LVM to ease resizing of partitions on your machine and a live-CD to show (off) to others. Best wishes, mt Neil Bags wrote: Well another way would be to put arch in / and gentoo in /gentoo and

[arch] Ruby 1.8.5-p2 and dorphell still asleep

2006-12-05 Thread Michael Fellinger
Hello there, I've been mailing about the upgrade to ruby 1.8.5 last time, but it seems like it's been widely ignored... However, in the meanwhile some serious security-issues have been found in ruby and yesterday the patch2 of 1.8.5 was released. These issues (and a couple more) are also

Re: [arch] Package Conflicts

2007-01-04 Thread Michael Towers
. Of course, I don't want to deflect you from such a noble course of action, but there is also larch, which at present is possibly more usable. Best wishes, Michael ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

[arch] kernel 1.6.19 mkinitcpio problem -- kernel panic

2007-01-11 Thread Michael Krauss
108744 2 piix,generic ata_piix 12296 3 libata 90644 2 ata_generic,ata_piix I don't know what I can do any further. Suggestions are most welcome. Kind regards Michael Krauss ___ arch mailing list arch

Re: [arch] kernel 1.6.19 mkinitcpio problem -- kernel panic

2007-01-11 Thread Michael Krauss
Am Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:06:21 -0600 schrieb Jim Erickson: On 1/11/07, Michael Krauss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I switched from a via driven mainboard to an intel one: Gigabyte GA-945GM-S2 with a i945G chipset. Now I am facing the mkinitcpio/piix/ata_piix problem -- getting a kernel

Re: [arch] Just to tell you what I've done yesterday

2007-01-17 Thread Michael Towers
Michel Di Croci wrote: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_ArchLinux_on_a_USB_key I will fill the missing section when I come back at home tonight. Michel I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet, but I wonder about the effect on the lifetime of the usb key if it is used

Re: [arch] Just to tell you what I've done yesterday

2007-01-18 Thread Michael Towers
Roman Kyrylych wrote: 2007/1/18, Michel Di Croci [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... That's too bad! Really, I preferred my way since I have real partition on it (can be viewed from my main computer). And I don't like the idea that in the long term, I would have to recreate and rewrite all the config all

Re: [arch] Just to tell you what I've done yesterday

2007-01-18 Thread Michael Towers
Roman Kyrylych wrote: On large drives there's no need for squashfs. And software updates will be OK, just don't forget to do pacman -Scc after each update. There's still a RAM issue when downloading and unpacking packages. One of solutions that will lessen the problem is to sync ramdisk to

Re: [arch] Text mode web browser in the installation system

2007-01-30 Thread Michael Towers
Tobias Powalowski wrote: Am Dienstag 30 Januar 2007 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] links on ISO + full remote install support through telnet and ssh will be possible. That's a great feature. Perhaps I'll eventually update my headless computer. Really, there are few distro which allow

Re: [arch] Replace unionfs with kernel26 from current?

2007-03-12 Thread Michael Towers
Johannes Held wrote: Hi all, I did a pacman -Syu just to knew what needs to be updated. This question confuses me: :: Replace unionfs with kernel26 from current? [Y/n] I think I compiled unionfs by myself: :: unionfs: local (20060916.2203-2) appears to be newer than repo

Re: [arch] Pacman 3 RC2

2007-03-18 Thread Michael Towers
Aaron Griffin wrote: Ok, the latest and greatest RC is now available: Instructions are the same as last time. Either download this or 'pacman -U' it. If you're running pacman-rc, you need to uninstall that first. The package is here:

Re: [arch] Pacman 3 RC2

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Towers
Aaron Griffin wrote: On 3/18/07, Michael Towers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have only done a few very quick tests, but it looks good ... ... except that there seems to be something wrong with the behaviour with the -r option. Specifically, so far as I can tell the install scripts

Re: [arch] 0.8 Voodoo ISOs finally released!

2007-03-31 Thread Michael M.
guide on Arch's website is for 0.7.2 and I'm afraid I'll get lost without an updated installation guide. (BTW, I think the Arch Installation Guide is *excellent.*) So where are updated instructions for Voodoo? -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist

Re: [arch] 0.8 Voodoo ISOs finally released!

2007-03-31 Thread Michael M.
. :-) -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. --S. Jackson ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http

Re: [arch] 0.8 Voodoo ISOs finally released!

2007-04-01 Thread Michael M.
with it. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. --S. Jackson ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org

Re: [arch] 0.8 Voodoo ISOs finally released!

2007-04-02 Thread Michael M.
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 11:10 -0400, Dan McGee wrote: On 4/1/07, Michael M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, I had a problem afterwards. I installed 'gnome' and it went *very* slowly. It took hours to download all the packages. I'm guessing the mirrors are being hit hard by the new

Re: [arch] can not mount Floppy

2007-04-11 Thread Michael Towers
arnuld wrote: i am trying to mount floppy but i am not able to do so. i mounted many floppis on Fedora Linux without any trouble. using mount -t vfat /dev/ floppy /mnt/floppy. BUT this does not work in Arch Linux. Even there is no documentation in Arch Wiki :-( any help ? this is from my

Re: [arch] can not mount Floppy

2007-04-11 Thread Michael Towers
Roman Kyrylych wrote: 2007/4/11, solsTiCe d'Hiver [EMAIL PROTECTED]: try: # modprobe floppy it is build as a module and not included in the kernel It should be # modprobe ide-floppy Wow, we're quick today aren't we! Several replies in the space of a few minutes, that's service! But

[arch] Problems writing on iPod since last update

2007-04-30 Thread Michael Schaefer
- michael ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] [arch-dev-public] pacman upgrade issue

2007-05-09 Thread Michael Towers
It may be a bit late 'n' all that (I'm a slow thinker sometimes), but: (a) Is there any really good reason why these not very big packages which have to be installed on an Archlinux system anyway or else pacman won't work shouldn't be part of the pacman package? O.K. you can update pacman

Re: [arch] [arch-dev-public] pacman upgrade issue

2007-05-10 Thread Michael Towers
Dan McGee wrote: On 5/10/07, Michael Towers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It may be a bit late 'n' all that (I'm a slow thinker sometimes), but: (a) Is there any really good reason why these not very big packages which have to be installed on an Archlinux system anyway or else pacman won't

Re: [arch] Party (was arch Digest)

2007-05-25 Thread Michael M.
*was* on W23rd just off 10th for many years, until about 2 years ago. Moved back west. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. --S. Jackson

Re: [arch] archlinux party!

2007-05-28 Thread Michael Fellinger
Archers of Tokyo and surroundings, unite! :) ^ manveru On 5/24/07, Micha? M. Lechan'ski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-05-21 21:49 RedShift wrote: I was thinking arch linux parties, There will be a lot of beer and couple of Archers in Tuchomie, small village in northern Poland, at the

[arch] syslog-ng-2.0.4-1.1.pkg.tar.gz

2007-05-28 Thread Michael Towers
Is it now allowed to have a '.' in the 'pkgrel'? Was it always allowed? If so, is it necessary? If not, why does pacman accept it? ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] syslog-ng-2.0.4-1.1.pkg.tar.gz

2007-05-28 Thread Michael Towers
Well, the dot certainly doesn't make the package version more readable and I think the arguments for the dot might be a bit specious, but to handle the immediate situation, I have just updated the larch script pacin so that it works with the dot!

Re: [arch] answer to Archlinux French Website(s)

2007-05-31 Thread Michael Towers
Aaron Griffin wrote: On 5/31/07, Benoit Chesneau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I dind't get this message in my inbox @archlinuxfr.org yet : http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch/2007-May/014696.html But let me answer with facts : snip And none of this matters. We all have

Re: [arch] multiple packages with makepkg

2007-09-21 Thread Michael Towers
Of course it's up to the developers what goes in, and I can understand the repeated request for ideas and not comments, but I hope you can also understand that people might be a bit concerned that the (on the whole) beautifully simple PKGBUILD scripts might begin to go the way of gentoo or

Re: [arch] multiple packages with makepkg

2007-09-21 Thread Michael Towers
Oh, sorry, I forgot to say I like the basic idea in FS#7982 ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] Your email requires verificationverify#S1F3c8BesWthRh9EUxz_CvpjPXTYFm6I

2007-09-26 Thread Michael Towers
Hey Travis, How do we know that that mail purportedly from you is not a hoax? Maybe we should reply just in case it's really important. We might even get 80% off our Viagra purchases? Have a nice day! (Sorry, I also find it annoying to have to look at piles of junk) Jeffrey Parke wrote: it

Re: [arch] Scribus 1.3.4

2007-10-29 Thread Michael Towers
Branko Vukelic wrote: On 10/29/07, Leslie P. Polzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still have the package, do you want me to toss it to you via e-mail? Yes, please! :) Okay, hold on till I get home. I'll be able to send it to you in some 10 hours or so. I've sent him a

Re: [arch] dependency cycle in core

2007-11-17 Thread Michael Towers
Mister Dobalina wrote: --- Thomas Bächler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roman Kyrylych schrieb: bash 3.2.025-2 - depends on readline=5.2 readline 5.2-5 - depends on ncurses ncurses 5.6-6 - depends on glibc glibc 2.7-7 - depends on bash - oops! But it looks like there are other ones

[arch] kernel 2.6.17-beyond and bcm43xx failing to load

2006-07-07 Thread Michael Kjelbergvik Thung
Hi, I recently upgraded to kernel 2.6.17-beyond and removed ndiswrapper as I heard it wasn't necessary for my BroadCom 4306 built-in wlan (laptop) anymore, since bcm43xx is a built-in kernel module as of 2.7.17-rc2. I can't, however, do ifconfig eth1 up, as this yields: eth1: unknown

Re: [arch] kernel 2.6.17-beyond and bcm43xx failing to load

2006-07-07 Thread Michael Kjelbergvik Thung
GothicKnight wrote: On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:53:46 +0100, Michael Kjelbergvik Thung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded to kernel 2.6.17-beyond and removed ndiswrapper as I heard it wasn't necessary for my BroadCom 4306 built-in wlan (laptop) anymore, since bcm43xx

Re: [arch] when xorg 7.1

2006-07-10 Thread Michael Kjelbergvik Thung
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:09:27 +0200, Rohan Dhruva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/10/06, Comick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xorg 7.1 has been released some time ago, but it is not present in current, nor in testing. Is planned an upgrade soon? Thanks :)

Re: [arch] Strange login error

2006-07-19 Thread Michael Kjelbergvik Thung
Michal Eibl wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. A strange error message appears to me during global update (-Sywu): ::Retrieving packages from extra... error: anonymous login failed Control socket read failed: Success What does it mean and what I can do with

Re: [arch] mutagen man pages

2006-07-21 Thread Michael Kjelbergvik Thung
Sergej Pupykin wrote: Hi, All! I did pacman -S mutagen and its man pages was placed into /usr/share/man I try build package manualy and man pages placed into the right place. How this package was made if makepkg script moves all of /usr/share/man into /usr/man??? Please advise...

Re: [arch] blog software with aggregator plugin?

2006-07-24 Thread Michael Kjelbergvik Thung
Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote: On 24/07/06, *Greg Meyer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 23 July 2006 6:25 pm, Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote: Does anyone know a popular blog software that allows you to aggregate another blog as links or

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup

2009-10-29 Thread Michael Towers
When I got a new laptop I investigated this problem a little and found that with hdparm -B 254/255 the temperature went up quite significantly. This may be a freak and I would love to know whether there really is something behind it, but when I used -B 200 the temperature increase was clearly

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup

2009-10-29 Thread Michael Towers
Given the difficulty of finding the optimal solution to this problem, I think I agree with the earlier suggestion to just monitor the situation and report to the user if there is a problem - and provide a useful account of how to handle it. I imagine it would not be too difficult to write cron

Re: [arch-general] stability of pbzip2 ?

2009-11-19 Thread Michael Schaefer
. So for at least one year everything went fine. regards - Michael On 19.11.2009 08:43, Ian-Xue Li wrote: Hi, I'm quote fond of pbzip2's ability to multitask the compression, which comes really handy when backuping large archives of server files. But just heard from my friend: pbzip2 has

Re: [arch-general] How to change some setting of gdm under xfce4

2009-12-03 Thread Michael Wigren
? Figure that would be easier. And in any case, for a simple task like this I wouldn't recommend using a GUI anyway. Its just (if I remember correctly) 2 lines to be changed. -- Michael Wigren michael.wig...@gmail.com

Re: [arch-general] initramfs: execute own script

2010-01-22 Thread Michael Towers
I guess you'll need to replace kinit, or else include the mount command in your own script and skip the normal mount command. Looking at how something like this is handled in the hooks in archiso or larch might help you.

Re: [arch-general] Kde upgrade ?phonon/qt?

2010-02-17 Thread Michael Schaefer
On 17.02.2010 10:09, richard terry wrote: # pacman -Sy --asdeps qt error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: qtscriptgenerator: requires phonon pacman -Rd qtscriptgenerator (and possibly amarok) will do the job. regards michael

Re: [arch-general] Some icons don't work anymore since update to Gnome 2.30

2010-04-04 Thread Michael Wigren
with the latest gnome. So is there anyone who can think of possible reasons for this? Quite annoying problem, I have reinstalled Gnome and Xorg several times, but it still persists :(. -- Michael Wigren michael.wig...@gmail.com

Re: [arch-general] Arch shutdown because of firefox

2010-05-11 Thread Michael Wigren
of firefox. And my question is why the crash of firefox can cause my computer shuts down? PS. my system environment: Arch + awesome, no DE. Thanks! hc Could the computer be getting too hot? I had this happen. I have to keep the fans clean. -- Michael Wigren michael.wig...@gmail.com

Re: [arch-general] final release candidate images for testing

2010-05-16 Thread Michael Towers
2010/5/15 Dries De Smet driesdes...@gmail.com: archlinux-2010.05.13-netinstall-i686.iso , installed on asus 1005 HA, from usb stick, everything went fine. Just didn't detect wireless with kernel 2.6.32, but that's solved after updating. Are you using 2.6.32 on the isos? I suppose you don't

[arch-general] Problems suspending since 2.6.33

2010-05-25 Thread Michael Schaefer
). Also Xorg seems not to be the problem, since even suspending from a blank tty (without xserver running at all) does not make the computer wake up afterward. Any ideas on this? My machine: Intel P35 Chipset Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 ATI Radeon HD 3600 regards and thank you Michael

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