Re: [arch-general] No sound after hal update

2009-11-12 Thread Lars Tennstedt
Magnus Therning wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Christopher Daley crda...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried running pulseaudio as a daemon? e.g. /etc/rc.d/pulseaudio start' This would likely be a fix for now... First, it's not recommended to run pulseaudio in system mode. Second it

Re: [arch-general] No sound after hal update

2009-11-12 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Christopher Daley crda...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried running pulseaudio as a daemon?  e.g. /etc/rc.d/pulseaudio start' This would likely be a fix for now... [..] I noticed there's

Re: [arch-general] Frustrated with Crappy looking Firefox and OpenOffice GTK QT themes?

2009-11-12 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 01:08:04AM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: After mucking around trying to get firefox and openoffice to look right, I thought I would pass on a few tips. For those of you that know already, just hit delete. The dull boxy appearance of both GTK and some Qt apps left me

Re: [arch-general] аrch x86_64 and i686 perfor mance comparison

2009-11-12 Thread Robert Howard
I find the 64 bit version to be on par with the 32 bit version. I do think 64 bit is faster when using it for GIS with large datasets. I have been using 64 bit for years without remorse. Now, no 64 bit Windows OS has ever been worth using. On Nov 11, 2009 11:19 PM, Sergey Manucharian

Re: [arch-general] (groff+)ghostscript/us letter/paper size problems

2009-11-12 Thread Mike Bishop
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:49:13AM -0500, Louis Guillaume wrote: Mike Bishop wrote: snip The problem is that recent versions of ghostscript will (often) assume a4 paper size, regardless of /etc/paper. This applies after ghostscript 8.64-5 but I am not sure which version (8.70 has the

[arch-general] AUR: gcc-java-4.3.3.tar.bz2.part == ERROR: Build Failed.

2009-11-12 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, Looks like there is a misconfigured locale in the gcc-java-4.3.3 AUR files. Attempting to build the gcc-gcj AUR package, it died with the following: 2009-11-13 00:51:08 (135 KB/s) - “gcc-java-4.3.3.tar.bz2.part” saved [18053140] - Found gcj-4.3-tools.jar-path.diff in build dir -

Re: [arch-general] AUR: gcc-java-4.3.3.tar.bz2.part == ERROR: Build Failed.

2009-11-12 Thread Evangelos Foutras
Evangelos Foutras wrote: David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, Looks like there is a misconfigured locale in the gcc-java-4.3.3 AUR files. Attempting to build the gcc-gcj AUR package, it died with the following: 2009-11-13 00:51:08 (135 KB/s) - “gcc-java-4.3.3.tar.bz2.part” saved [18053140] -