[arch-general] Boost
Hi, Does anyone know what's going on with boost? It seems it was downgraded from 1.42.0 to 1.41.0 a while back, and hasn't been updated to the latest 1.43.0. I was going to build the latest on my machine, but if there's something wrong with it I might hold off or go with the older version. I know there was some talk about splitting it up; is that the reason? Daniel
Re: [arch-general] Boost
On 18/06/10 16:24, Daniel Bumke wrote: Hi, Does anyone know what's going on with boost? It seems it was downgraded from 1.42.0 to 1.41.0 a while back, and hasn't been updated to the latest 1.43.0. I was going to build the latest on my machine, but if there's something wrong with it I might hold off or go with the older version. I know there was some talk about splitting it up; is that the reason? From memory 1.42 broke encfs. The encfs developers blame boost, the boost developers blame encfs, so nothing was done in recent updates from either side. So we either update boost or break encfs... Allan
Re: [arch-general] New Google Group for discussion and notices on Arch security.
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim jfs.wo...@gmail.com wrote: ah yes, SSL! sorry :) On 2006-05-01 22:34:12, Ulf Möller, openssl developer [1], responded [2] to openssl packager Kurt Roeckx [3] saying that he was for applying the patch just to keep valgrind quiet. But openssl doesn't like to talk about that, and neither does slashdot for that matter. For a distro packager, the maximum authority regarding what to do with a given piece of software is upstream and common sense. If upstream says it's a ok, then common sense takes a backseat during technical discussions. Not to mention that initializing variables like that is undefined and bound to *always* cause confusion. Andres P [1] http://openssl.org/about [2] http://marc.info/?l=openssl-devm=114652287210110w=2 [3] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=k...@roeckx.be
Re: [arch-general] Boost
On 18/06/10 13:30, Allan McRae wrote: From memory 1.42 broke encfs. The encfs developers blame boost, the boost developers blame encfs, so nothing was done in recent updates from either side. So we either update boost or break encfs... Thanks for the tip! Presumably you mean either we *don't* update boost or break encfs? What a mess. For anyone interested you can read up on it here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=92209 https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/3990 http://code.google.com/p/encfs/issues/detail?id=60 Boost really seems to have no interest in fixing this, but it looks like encfs may have found a work-around (the bug above was closed yesterday with status 'released'). Latest encfs release: http://code.google.com/p/encfs/updates/list Maybe worth another try with the new encfs version?
Re: [arch-general] New Google Group for discussion and notices on Arch security.
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Andres P aep...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim jfs.wo...@gmail.com wrote: ah yes, SSL! sorry :) On 2006-05-01 22:34:12, Ulf Möller, openssl developer [1], responded [2] to openssl packager Kurt Roeckx [3] saying that he was for applying the patch just to keep valgrind quiet. cool. I wasnt aware of that. I was aware that there was some form of silence regarding what to do. But as for actually saying ok... hm. Agree with the point about making sense to defer to upstream for the final word. -jf But openssl doesn't like to talk about that, and neither does slashdot for that matter. For a distro packager, the maximum authority regarding what to do with a given piece of software is upstream and common sense. If upstream says it's a ok, then common sense takes a backseat during technical discussions. Not to mention that initializing variables like that is undefined and bound to *always* cause confusion. Andres P [1] http://openssl.org/about [2] http://marc.info/?l=openssl-devm=114652287210110w=2 [3] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=k...@roeckx.be
Re: [arch-general] intel video suspend
On 05/07/2010 07:16 PM, Isaac Dupree wrote: please inform us, what does xset dpms force off do? And for what circumstances/purpose do you use it? Sorry it took so long, I missed your reply. xset dpms force off is supposed to turn off the screen immediately using DPMS, at least thats what it seems to do. I just don't want to suspend (suspend the whole system to RAM) everytime I close the lid, rather I like it to continue to work on whatever I told it to do :-) Bye Christoph
Re: [arch-general] b43: wireless issues
Excerpts from Magnus Therning's message of 2010-06-18 01:22:48 +0200: I'm having problems getting my wireless connection to work properly. It's a broadcom card, using the b43 driver. It connects fine on login, but once I actually use the network I'm disconnected and all attempts to re-connect fail. I've found some reports of similar behaviour online, but none seem to offer any good solutions to it :-( So I'm trying my luck in here instead. One person mentioned that things started working much better if he limited the network to 802.11b (not g), but I haven't seen any obvious way of achieving this. Any hints on what I can do to test that myself? $ lspci -vnn |grep 14e4 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01) I did extract some stuff from dmesg that might be of importance, but I really couldn't tell: b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode15.fw b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/lp0initvals15.fw b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/lp0bsinitvals15.fw b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 478.104 (2008-07-01 00:50:23) b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 0x0800, 0x, 0x, 0x, 0x, 0x b43-phy0 ERROR: This device does not support DMA on your system. Please use PIO instead. b43-phy0: Controller RESET (DMA error) ... b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 478.104 (2008-07-01 00:50:23) b43-phy0: Controller restarted Cheers, M Hi. I have the same chip and same issue. I found out that the b43 devs didn't figure out yet how to get the chip to work correctly, so unless something changed during the last weeks/months there's no real solution. Using the apparently slower PIO instead of DMA is a kernel compiletime option so far, but I read that as a workaround it's a module load option beginning with .34. It's a pity, the chip should have worked beginning with I afair .30. I wasted loads of time trying to get it to work, without luck. The broadcom driver works afair, but it annoyed me for some reasons. So for now I'm looking forward to .34 to hopefully have at least working wifi, even if slow. -- Regards, Philipp -- Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen. Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
Re: [arch-general] intel video suspend
Excerpts from Christoph Rissner's message of 2010-06-18 09:36:27 +0200: On 05/07/2010 07:16 PM, Isaac Dupree wrote: please inform us, what does xset dpms force off do? And for what circumstances/purpose do you use it? Sorry it took so long, I missed your reply. xset dpms force off is supposed to turn off the screen immediately using DPMS, at least thats what it seems to do. I just don't want to suspend (suspend the whole system to RAM) everytime I close the lid, rather I like it to continue to work on whatever I told it to do :-) Bye Christoph The syntax of that stuff is weird, but here's what I have, seems to work: # turn off screen powersaving setterm -blank 0 -powersave off -powerdown 0 #turn powersave off xset dpms 0 0 0 xset -dpms #turn screensaver off xset s 0 0 xset s noblank xset s noexpose xset s off -- Regards, Philipp -- Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen. Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
Re: [arch-general] intel video suspend
Excerpts from Ray Rashif's message of 2010-06-18 09:54:55 +0200: On 18 June 2010 15:36, Christoph Rissner c...@visotech.at wrote: On 05/07/2010 07:16 PM, Isaac Dupree wrote: please inform us, what does xset dpms force off do? And for what circumstances/purpose do you use it? Sorry it took so long, I missed your reply. xset dpms force off is supposed to turn off the screen immediately using DPMS, at least thats what it seems to do. I just don't want to suspend (suspend the whole system to RAM) everytime I close the lid, rather I like it to continue to work on whatever I told it to do :-) That _is_ the default behaviour - the laptop should do nothing at all when the lid is closed. I know of no particular hardware/BIOS that sets a sleep action upon lid closure. It is only altered by userspace tools/daemons like for eg. when using a DE. You might want to check what else is enforcing a rule to the lid-closing state. Mine does turn off the backlight, and I'm quite sure there's no userspace involved, just plain hardware/bios. No idea whether others do more than that. Turning off the backlight seems like reasonably safe thing to do. -- Regards, Philipp -- Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen. Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
Re: [arch-general] intel video suspend
On 06/18/2010 09:54 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: That_is_ the default behaviour - the laptop should do nothing at all when the lid is closed. I know of no particular hardware/BIOS that sets a sleep action upon lid closure. It is only altered by userspace tools/daemons like for eg. when using a DE. I know, in my case its acpi-eeepc-generic that, by default, suspends the system when closing the lid. But thats not the point. What I tried to say is, I do have an Intel video card and experienced problems as mentioned in the original post. I didn't have to suspend the system but just close the screen lid (turning it off), then after opening the lid again the screen would remain blank/off occasionally, no matter what I tried. However, it didn't happen to me in the last month, IIRC there was a kernel update, I think this has resolved my issues. Bye, Christoph
Re: [arch-general] intel video suspend
On 18 June 2010 16:12, Christoph Rissner c...@visotech.at wrote: On 06/18/2010 09:54 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: That_is_ the default behaviour - the laptop should do nothing at all when the lid is closed. I know of no particular hardware/BIOS that sets a sleep action upon lid closure. It is only altered by userspace tools/daemons like for eg. when using a DE. I know, in my case its acpi-eeepc-generic that, by default, suspends the system when closing the lid. But thats not the point. What I tried to say is, I do have an Intel video card and experienced problems as mentioned in the original post. I didn't have to suspend the system but just close the screen lid (turning it off), then after opening the lid again the screen would remain blank/off occasionally, no matter what I tried. However, it didn't happen to me in the last month, IIRC there was a kernel update, I think this has resolved my issues. Ahh, alright. I myself have last faced it last year, and I did find it very strange that such a hardware-level feature could have anything to do with the OS. I have never bothered to figure it out, it just works now. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD
Re: [arch-general] Boost
On 06/18/2010 09:30 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 18/06/10 16:24, Daniel Bumke wrote: Hi, Does anyone know what's going on with boost? It seems it was downgraded from 1.42.0 to 1.41.0 a while back, and hasn't been updated to the latest 1.43.0. I was going to build the latest on my machine, but if there's something wrong with it I might hold off or go with the older version. I know there was some talk about splitting it up; is that the reason? From memory 1.42 broke encfs. The encfs developers blame boost, the boost developers blame encfs, so nothing was done in recent updates from either side. So we either update boost or break encfs... Allan encfs devs released a new version which works with 1.41. yesterday i built 1.43 but the splitting is holding me back. It has a very annoying build system and until now we have in the bugtracker one which is copying files around from a directory to another. FS#19749 -- Ionuț
Re: [arch-general] Boost
On 18.06.2010 11:38, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 06/18/2010 09:30 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 18/06/10 16:24, Daniel Bumke wrote: Hi, Does anyone know what's going on with boost? It seems it was downgraded from 1.42.0 to 1.41.0 a while back, and hasn't been updated to the latest 1.43.0. I was going to build the latest on my machine, but if there's something wrong with it I might hold off or go with the older version. I know there was some talk about splitting it up; is that the reason? From memory 1.42 broke encfs. The encfs developers blame boost, the boost developers blame encfs, so nothing was done in recent updates from either side. So we either update boost or break encfs... Allan encfs devs released a new version which works with 1.41. yesterday i built 1.43 but the splitting is holding me back. It has a very annoying build system and until now we have in the bugtracker one which is copying files around from a directory to another. FS#19749 What's the issue here though? We have a working split package and everyone is happy? Bjam is a crappy build system but until CMake is more actively maintained by Boost (last boost-cmake release was 1.41) it'll have to do. Boost is an important part of C++ development, it should not go without update in Arch. -- Sven-Hendrik
[arch-general] How do I get my Canon MP630 working under Arch?
I would like to get my Canon MP630 (all in one) printer working under Arch, I only need the printing abilities though. I have installed the following packages and read the Arch wiki CUPS article along with many other websites: cnijfilter-common 3.00-3 hal-cups-utils cups-canon cups libcups I've tried adding the printer with the following URI's: cnijusb:/dev/usb/lp2 hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_4a9_172e_30AFBE_if1_printer_noserial I've been unable to get it to print a test page. Thanks!
Re: [arch-general] How do I get my Canon MP630 working under Arch?
Jordan Windsor kirjoitti perjantai, 18. kesäkuuta 2010 13:22:00: I would like to get my Canon MP630 (all in one) printer working under Arch, I only need the printing abilities though. I have installed the following packages and read the Arch wiki CUPS article along with many other websites: cnijfilter-common 3.00-3 hal-cups-utils cups-canon cups libcups I've tried adding the printer with the following URI's: cnijusb:/dev/usb/lp2 hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_4a9_172e_30AFBE_if1_printer_n oserial I've been unable to get it to print a test page. Thanks! I had problems whit a cannoc printer too, check if you have 2 devices listed in cups, as for me the other one didn't work but the pother did. Sorry its been while sinse i intsleed it so I can't remeber propely
Re: [arch-general] What should the Arch Security Team be called?
On 06/18/10 01:05, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 06/18/2010 03:48 AM, J. McBlane wrote: Arch Security Enhancement Team? Securing Arch For Everyone? Arch Guard? On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:46:59PM +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote: On to the first order of business. As the subject says, what should security team be called. Hopefully we can get a few suggestions and then reach a consensus. Arch Linux Security Task Force just sounds like too much of a mouthful to me. I was brooding over this and I thought some sort of acronym that's an actual word would sound better, so I came up with this: 'Arch Response Team for Security' or ARTS. It's a bit cheesy and cheats a bit to get the acronym but is instantly memorable. I'm aware arts was also a KDE technology but it has long since been deprecated. Ideas? Ananda I vote for Securing Arch For Everyone (SAFE) First Arch Response Team ?
Re: [arch-general] Boost
On Fri 18 Jun 2010 11:52 +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: On 18.06.2010 11:38, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 06/18/2010 09:30 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 18/06/10 16:24, Daniel Bumke wrote: Does anyone know what's going on with boost? It seems it was downgraded from 1.42.0 to 1.41.0 a while back, and hasn't been updated to the latest 1.43.0. I was going to build the latest on my machine, but if there's something wrong with it I might hold off or go with the older version. I know there was some talk about splitting it up; is that the reason? From memory 1.42 broke encfs. The encfs developers blame boost, the boost developers blame encfs, so nothing was done in recent updates from either side. So we either update boost or break encfs... encfs devs released a new version which works with 1.41. yesterday i built 1.43 but the splitting is holding me back. It has a very annoying build system and until now we have in the bugtracker one which is copying files around from a directory to another. FS#19749 What's the issue here though? We have a working split package and everyone is happy? Bjam is a crappy build system but until CMake is more actively maintained by Boost (last boost-cmake release was 1.41) it'll have to do. Boost is an important part of C++ development, it should not go without update in Arch. Wow, this is kind of depressing. Why would some package in community block an established library from being upgraded in extra?
Re: [arch-general] What should the Arch Security Team be called?
SUPER ARCH TEAM AWESOME On 18 June 2010 11:32, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote: On 06/18/10 01:05, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 06/18/2010 03:48 AM, J. McBlane wrote: Arch Security Enhancement Team? Securing Arch For Everyone? Arch Guard? On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:46:59PM +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote: On to the first order of business. As the subject says, what should security team be called. Hopefully we can get a few suggestions and then reach a consensus. Arch Linux Security Task Force just sounds like too much of a mouthful to me. I was brooding over this and I thought some sort of acronym that's an actual word would sound better, so I came up with this: 'Arch Response Team for Security' or ARTS. It's a bit cheesy and cheats a bit to get the acronym but is instantly memorable. I'm aware arts was also a KDE technology but it has long since been deprecated. Ideas? Ananda I vote for Securing Arch For Everyone (SAFE) First Arch Response Team ?
Re: [arch-general] How do I get my Canon MP630 working under Arch?
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Gmail jesse.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Jordan Windsor kirjoitti perjantai, 18. kesäkuuta 2010 13:22:00: I would like to get my Canon MP630 (all in one) printer working under Arch, I only need the printing abilities though. I have installed the following packages and read the Arch wiki CUPS article along with many other websites: cnijfilter-common 3.00-3 hal-cups-utils cups-canon cups libcups I've tried adding the printer with the following URI's: cnijusb:/dev/usb/lp2 hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_4a9_172e_30AFBE_if1_printer_n oserial I've been unable to get it to print a test page. Thanks! I had problems whit a cannoc printer too, check if you have 2 devices listed in cups, as for me the other one didn't work but the pother did. Sorry its been while sinse i intsleed it so I can't remeber propely When I use hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_4a9_172e_30AFBE_if1_printer_noserial as the URI with this PPD file Canon MP630 series Ver.3.00 It wont print anything (including test prints) it automatically completes any jobs I give it, when I give it the URI of cnijusb:/dev/usb/lp2 with the PPD file Canon PIXMA MP610 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.5 it display this as the status Paused - Printing page 1, 2% with the state of the job as /usr/lib/cups/backend/cnijusb failed, when I give it the PPD of Canon MP620-630 series Ver.2.80en it also automatically completes all jobs without actually printing anything. Thanks.
[arch-general] Upgrading from Arch 0.8 O.o
I recently got a VPS and installed arch from their control panel just to know that it was arch 0.8 !!! How do I upgrade from arch 0.8 to the latest ? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e
Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Arch 0.8 O.o
pacman -Syu On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.com wrote: I recently got a VPS and installed arch from their control panel just to know that it was arch 0.8 !!! How do I upgrade from arch 0.8 to the latest ? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com
Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Arch 0.8 O.o
On 06/18/2010 03:38 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: I recently got a VPS and installed arch from their control panel just to know that it was arch 0.8 !!! How do I upgrade from arch 0.8 to the latest ? you should ask them to get the latest openvz template: http://download.openvz.org/contrib/template/precreated/arch-2010.05-i686-minimal.tar.gz http://download.openvz.org/contrib/template/precreated/arch-2010.05-x86_64-minimal.tar.gz those are created by me and mostly because nobody cared for so many years :) -- Ionuț
Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Arch 0.8 O.o
On 06/18/2010 06:10 PM, Angel Velásquez wrote: pacman -Syu On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Nilesh Govindarajanli...@itech7.com wrote: I recently got a VPS and installed arch from their control panel just to know that it was arch 0.8 !!! How do I upgrade from arch 0.8 to the latest ? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e In order to refresh the db, I ran pacman -Sy which gives this error: config: line 1: all directives must belong to a section config: line 1: all directives must belong to a section config: line 1: all directives must belong to a section :: Synchronizing package databases... failed to synchronize current failed to synchronize extra error: could not open sync database: current have you used --refresh yet? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e
Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Arch 0.8 O.o
On 06/18/2010 06:14 PM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 06/18/2010 03:38 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: I recently got a VPS and installed arch from their control panel just to know that it was arch 0.8 !!! How do I upgrade from arch 0.8 to the latest ? you should ask them to get the latest openvz template: http://download.openvz.org/contrib/template/precreated/arch-2010.05-i686-minimal.tar.gz http://download.openvz.org/contrib/template/precreated/arch-2010.05-x86_64-minimal.tar.gz those are created by me and mostly because nobody cared for so many years :) I managed to get arch with them after a lot of push, anyway, leave that part. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e
Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Arch 0.8 O.o
Am 18.06.2010 14:38, schrieb Nilesh Govindarajan: I recently got a VPS and installed arch from their control panel just to know that it was arch 0.8 !!! How do I upgrade from arch 0.8 to the latest ? I don't think you can: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-June/017096.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Arch 0.8 O.o
Its over finally. Some tar -xf stuff, etc. made it possible :) Basically upgraded pacman and its deps directly from archlinux.org as someone suggested. Thanks to that one ! -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e
Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Arch 0.8 O.o
I recently got a VPS and installed arch from their control panel just to know that it was arch 0.8 !!! How do I upgrade from arch 0.8 to the latest ? you should ask them to get the latest openvz template: http://download.openvz.org/contrib/template/precreated/arch-2010.05-i686-minimal.tar.gz http://download.openvz.org/contrib/template/precreated/arch-2010.05-x86_64-minimal.tar.gz those are created by me and mostly because nobody cared for so many years :) is there anything OpenVZ specific or it will work under LXC too? -- damjan
Re: [arch-general] b43: wireless issues
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 08:55, Philipp Überbacher hollun...@lavabit.com wrote: Hi. I have the same chip and same issue. I found out that the b43 devs didn't figure out yet how to get the chip to work correctly, so unless something changed during the last weeks/months there's no real solution. Using the apparently slower PIO instead of DMA is a kernel compiletime option so far, but I read that as a workaround it's a module load option beginning with .34. It's a pity, the chip should have worked beginning with I afair .30. I wasted loads of time trying to get it to work, without luck. The broadcom driver works afair, but it annoyed me for some reasons. So for now I'm looking forward to .34 to hopefully have at least working wifi, even if slow. I did find that there is a PIO-related option that I can put in modprobe.conf, but that doesn't seem to be address the problem I have (I also read that the b43 driver revert back to PIO automatically if there are DMA problems). Next step I'll try one of the daily snapshots via the compat-wireless package. If that doesn't work I'll be very irritated indeed, enough so to volunteer my services to the b43 devs for any testing they need to have done. /M -- Magnus Therning(OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe
Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Arch 0.8 O.o
you should ask them to get the latest openvz template: http://download.openvz.org/contrib/template/precreated/arch-2010.05-i686-minimal.tar.gz http://download.openvz.org/contrib/template/precreated/arch-2010.05-x86_64-minimal.tar.gz those are created by me and mostly because nobody cared for so many years :) is there anything OpenVZ specific or it will work under LXC too? no idea what LXC is. LXC is the Linux Container Project, afaik a subset of OpenVZ that has been merged in the vanilla kernel. just try it The problem is I'm still learning LXC so I was wondering if your templates are a good fit for that. I probably wont be able to solve any problems if they ocur. -- damjan
Re: [arch-general] b43: wireless issues
Excerpts from Magnus Therning's message of 2010-06-18 16:49:11 +0200: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 08:55, Philipp Überbacher hollun...@lavabit.com wrote: Hi. I have the same chip and same issue. I found out that the b43 devs didn't figure out yet how to get the chip to work correctly, so unless something changed during the last weeks/months there's no real solution. Using the apparently slower PIO instead of DMA is a kernel compiletime option so far, but I read that as a workaround it's a module load option beginning with .34. It's a pity, the chip should have worked beginning with I afair .30. I wasted loads of time trying to get it to work, without luck. The broadcom driver works afair, but it annoyed me for some reasons. So for now I'm looking forward to .34 to hopefully have at least working wifi, even if slow. I did find that there is a PIO-related option that I can put in modprobe.conf, but that doesn't seem to be address the problem I have (I also read that the b43 driver revert back to PIO automatically if there are DMA problems). Next step I'll try one of the daily snapshots via the compat-wireless package. If that doesn't work I'll be very irritated indeed, enough so to volunteer my services to the b43 devs for any testing they need to have done. /M I only read that stuff on their mailinglist and in some kernel log/mail that they're gonna change it to a module load time option in kernel .34. I don't know anything for sure. I don't think it reverts to PIO automatically, and I don't think it will. If you don't necessarily need the b43 driver then the broadcom thing in AUR should work without too much hassle. One of the annoying things with it is that you need to compile it against your kernel, so if you use multiple kernels you're in for fun. Another nuisance is that the wifi identifies itself as eth0 and wired as eth1. b43 is imho better in that respect, eth0 for ethernet and wlan0 for wireless just makes more sense. I also had the broadcom driver sometimes stall my machine for a couple of seconds, usually after boot, which I consider bad behavior. No idea about compat-wireless. -- Regards, Philipp -- Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen. Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Arch 0.8 O.o
On 06/18/2010 06:14 PM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 06/18/2010 03:38 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: I recently got a VPS and installed arch from their control panel just to know that it was arch 0.8 !!! How do I upgrade from arch 0.8 to the latest ? you should ask them to get the latest openvz template: http://download.openvz.org/contrib/template/precreated/arch-2010.05-i686-minimal.tar.gz http://download.openvz.org/contrib/template/precreated/arch-2010.05-x86_64-minimal.tar.gz those are created by me and mostly because nobody cared for so many years :) I notified them about these templates, they were happy and agreed to use it. :) :) :) -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e
Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Arch 0.8 O.o
Eh... someone like... me? :) On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.com wrote: Its over finally. Some tar -xf stuff, etc. made it possible :) Basically upgraded pacman and its deps directly from archlinux.org as someone suggested. Thanks to that one ! -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e
Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Arch 0.8 O.o
On 06/18/2010 09:14 PM, Fabiano Furtado Pessoa Coelho wrote: Eh... someone like... me? :) On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Nilesh Govindarajanli...@itech7.com wrote: Its over finally. Some tar -xf stuff, etc. made it possible :) Basically upgraded pacman and its deps directly from archlinux.org as someone suggested. Thanks to that one ! -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e Yeah man ! ;) -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e
Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Arch 0.8 O.o
Hi, If I may ask, which VPS provider it is? Gaurish
Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Arch 0.8 O.o
On 06/18/2010 10:15 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote: Hi, If I may ask, which VPS provider it is? Gaurish fsckvps.com This was the second VPS I am configuring for a friend. I have been using their UK service (link in my signature) for more than two years. They offer excellent quality service. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e
[arch-general] perl-5.12
So is there anything I can do to help to get this in stable? I haven't had any problems personally in over a month. I think the only bug still open for rebuilds is the dbd* one. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com
Re: [arch-general] Boost
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:56:48 -0400 Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: On Fri 18 Jun 2010 11:52 +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: On 18.06.2010 11:38, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 06/18/2010 09:30 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 18/06/10 16:24, Daniel Bumke wrote: Does anyone know what's going on with boost? It seems it was downgraded from 1.42.0 to 1.41.0 a while back, and hasn't been updated to the latest 1.43.0. What's the issue here though? We have a working split package and everyone is happy? Bjam is a crappy build system but until CMake is more actively maintained by Boost (last boost-cmake release was 1.41) it'll have to do. Boost is an important part of C++ development, it should not go without update in Arch. Wow, this is kind of depressing. Why would some package in community block an established library from being upgraded in extra? In this special case, because it caused data loss of probably very important files (hence encrypted) _without_ prior warning. But there seems to be a trend starting in this direction which worries me a little. IIRC there is nothing holding back Xorg 1.8 except for legacy nvidia drivers, and that for quite a while. If that is true, it's even more depressing for me, since nobody waited for us poor ATI R500 users when catalyst dropped support. :)
[arch-general] gnome only install - installing compiz pulls in kde4-runtime?? Why?
Guys, First install with the 2010-5 dual net install on an i686 box. Kudos, install was painless. Only issue was I had my pkg/ dir on a usb stick and I couldn't get the installer to use it for install. I mounted it where it was supposed to be mounted according to the installer (don't remember exactly /src/core/pkg or the like). It couldn't find the core.blah package... This is the first install where I haven't install kde/kdm. For this install, I only installed gnome/gdm. I don't want kde4 within 10 feet of this box. I do want compiz installed. When I installed compiz, it pulled in kde4 runtime, the compiz-decorator-kde, kdelibs, etc.. Why? Can't I just have a gnome box with compiz? Can I uninstall the kde4 mess? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] gnome only install - installing compiz pulls in kde4-runtime?? Why?
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 7:51 AM, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Guys, First install with the 2010-5 dual net install on an i686 box. Kudos, install was painless. Only issue was I had my pkg/ dir on a usb stick and I couldn't get the installer to use it for install. I mounted it where it was supposed to be mounted according to the installer (don't remember exactly /src/core/pkg or the like). It couldn't find the core.blah package... This is the first install where I haven't install kde/kdm. For this install, I only installed gnome/gdm. I don't want kde4 within 10 feet of this box. I do want compiz installed. When I installed compiz, it pulled in kde4 runtime, the compiz-decorator-kde, kdelibs, etc.. Why? Can't I just have a gnome box with compiz? Can I uninstall the kde4 mess? See here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Compiz#Install_from_.5Bcommunity.5D
Re: [arch-general] gnome only install - installing compiz pulls in kde4-runtime?? Why?
On 19/06/10 14:51, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, First install with the 2010-5 dual net install on an i686 box. Kudos, install was painless. Only issue was I had my pkg/ dir on a usb stick and I couldn't get the installer to use it for install. I mounted it where it was supposed to be mounted according to the installer (don't remember exactly /src/core/pkg or the like). It couldn't find the core.blah package... This is the first install where I haven't install kde/kdm. For this install, I only installed gnome/gdm. I don't want kde4 within 10 feet of this box. I do want compiz installed. When I installed compiz, it pulled in kde4 runtime, the compiz-decorator-kde, kdelibs, etc.. Why? Can't I just have a gnome box with compiz? Can I uninstall the kde4 mess? You obviously do not want the whole compiz group which includes compiz-decorator-kde. To install just the gtk stuff: pacman -S compiz-core compiz-decorator-gtk or if you have already done the install: pacman -Rs compiz-decorator-kde
