Re: [arch-general] /usr on a seperate drive

2012-01-29 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Peter G Nikolic p.nikol...@btinternet.com wrote: Right now i have given up on the seperate /usr  , can i safely move /usr/share to another drive and symlink it to /usr/share   . I have it up and working again but the disk is showing 100% full  /usr/share

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 07:22 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: On Jan 29, 2012 3:29 AM, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 18:30 +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote: For what it's worth, PA and Jack have

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 10:46 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 07:22 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: On Jan 29, 2012 3:29 AM, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 18:30 +0100,

[arch-general] python problems while compiling Android 4.0

2012-01-29 Thread Madhurya Kakati
Hi, I am trying to compile android 4.0 with the help of an article I found online[1]. When I execute a command I get the following error: $ python2 ~/bin/repo init -u http://git.android-x86.org/manifest -b ics-x86 File /home/papul/android-x86/.repo/repo/main.py, line 149 except

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Jan 29, 2012 5:46 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 07:22 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: On Jan 29, 2012 3:29 AM, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Sat, 2012-01-28

Re: [arch-general] python problems while compiling Android 4.0

2012-01-29 Thread Thanasis Georgiou
On 29 January 2012 12:12, Madhurya Kakati mkakati2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to compile android 4.0 with the help of an article I found online[1]. When I execute a command I get the following error: $ python2 ~/bin/repo init -u http://git.android-x86.org/manifest -b ics-x86  File

Re: [arch-general] python problems while compiling Android 4.0

2012-01-29 Thread Madhurya Kakati
On 01/29/12 at 12:28pm, Thanasis Georgiou wrote: I remember doing this, it was a problem with python. I think it wanted python2 but it found python3, something like that. I couldn't really understand the script, it was python inside bash so instead of spending years trying to fix it I moved

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 18:13 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: On Jan 29, 2012 5:46 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 07:22 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: On Jan 29, 2012 3:29 AM, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Ralf Mardorf

Re: [arch-general] python problems while compiling Android 4.0

2012-01-29 Thread Thanasis Georgiou
On 29 January 2012 12:33, Madhurya Kakati mkakati2...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/29/12 at 12:28pm, Thanasis Georgiou wrote: I remember doing this, it was a problem with python. I think it wanted python2 but it found python3, something like that. I couldn't really understand the script, it was

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 18:13 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: Yes, why not generalize when a specific example is debunked? About what kind of generalization are you talking? I'm serious, I don't understand what you are talking about. I'm sure all Linux installs MUST be ready to use out of the box

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: I'm sure all Linux installs MUST be ready to use out of the box for professional audio users. after all, the same is true for the other operating systems. I just ask that upgrades don't break a working

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Mauro Santos
On 29-01-2012 10:50, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I just ask that upgrades don't break a working machine, caused by unneeded dependencies. If a studio used GNOME, than an upgrade shouldn't add PA and break the machine. Deploying untested updates/upgrades on production machines is asking for trouble,

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 11:07 +, Mauro Santos wrote: On 29-01-2012 10:50, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I just ask that upgrades don't break a working machine, caused by unneeded dependencies. If a studio used GNOME, than an upgrade shouldn't add PA and break the machine. Deploying untested

Re: [arch-general] New PC and data copying -- am I doing this right?

2012-01-29 Thread Kwpolska
Okay then, I don't think I'd get more responses than that. I think I'll choose C Anthony Risinger's solution, because I trust rsync more than regular cp. On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 8:15 PM, C Anthony Risinger anth...@xtfx.me wrote: the only probalem would be windows, if NTFS has some kind of

Re: [arch-general] New PC and data copying -- am I doing this right?

2012-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 12:44 +0100, Kwpolska wrote: It's an OEM, I'm changing PCs, so it won't work. I am reinstalling Windows anyway, because using XP on such machine (3-core AMD Athlon 3.4GHz, GeForce GTS450, USB3.0, 4GB RAM) would be a stupid idea. Did you test wine or virtualization? I'm

[arch-general] Nouveau: 16bit Color Depth?

2012-01-29 Thread Bastien Dejean
Hi, I tried the nouveau driver and I noticed gradients were rough, I thought it might be related to the color depth but I didn't found any relevant option in the nouveau manual, so I tried passing depth parameters to startx but it didn't help. Any hints? Greetings, -- b.d (| |) ^ ^

Re: [arch-general] Nouveau: 16bit Color Depth?

2012-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 13:46 +0100, Bastien Dejean wrote: Hi, I tried the nouveau driver and I noticed gradients were rough, I thought it might be related to the color depth but I didn't found any relevant option in the nouveau manual, so I tried passing depth parameters to startx but it

Re: [arch-general] Nouveau: 16bit Color Depth?

2012-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 13:46 +0100, Bastien Dejean wrote: Hi, I tried the nouveau driver and I noticed gradients were rough, I thought it might be related to the color depth but I didn't found any relevant option in the nouveau manual, so I tried passing depth parameters to startx but it

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:58:31 +0100 schrieb Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no: Sounds like possibly valid concerns. But this is not something to discuss here. Please contact gnome and/or pulseaudio if you have issues. This has already been tried at least with pulseaudio. Their reactions are known.

Re: [arch-general] python problems while compiling Android 4.0

2012-01-29 Thread Madhurya Kakati
On Jan 29, 2012 4:13 PM, Thanasis Georgiou sakisd...@gmail.com wrote: Look at the command carefully. I used python2. That means it is running python 2.7.2. Right now I am downloading python2.6 from AUR. Hope that helps. -- Madhurya Kakati Yes but check, for example, line 23 in the repo

[arch-general] jackdbus

2012-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) I'll test if it will be possible to replace jack2 by jackdbus for my needs, e.g. if it's easy to change my session scripts for older audio productions to use it. I started it by $ jackdbus auto, now I've got $ pidof jackdbus 7201 and I'm unable to kill it. *google* $ jack_control --help

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 02:46:37PM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: This has already been tried at least with pulseaudio. Their reactions are known. Blame ALSA for PA's faults while ALSA supports those card perfectly since years, and crippling those audio cards down to stereo with some very strange

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Norbert Zeh
Heiko Baums [2012.01.29 1446 +0100]: Am Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:58:31 +0100 schrieb Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no: Sounds like possibly valid concerns. But this is not something to discuss here. Please contact gnome and/or pulseaudio if you have issues. This has already been tried at least

Re: [arch-general] Another Major glitch now

2012-01-29 Thread Rodrigo Amorim Bahiense
On Jan 28, 2012 5:07 PM, P NIKOLIC p.nikol...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi Tim . Glad i am not the only one , I have a spare drive i am thinking of moving /usr to it see if it will work like that .. Pete . Moving /usr to a separate partition is not recommended:

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Norbert Zeh
Fons Adriaensen [2012.01.29 1442 +]: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 02:46:37PM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: This has already been tried at least with pulseaudio. Their reactions are known. Blame ALSA for PA's faults while ALSA supports those card perfectly since years, and crippling those

Re: [arch-general] Another Major glitch now

2012-01-29 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Rodrigo Amorim Bahiense, Sun 2012-01-29 @ 13:04:39-0200: Moving /usr to a separate partition is not recommended: It is supported as of recently, if you use the right hooks in your mkinitcpio config. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio#.2Fusr_as_a_separate_partition

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 11:06 -0400, Norbert Zeh wrote: Fons Adriaensen [2012.01.29 1442 +]: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 02:46:37PM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: This has already been tried at least with pulseaudio. Their reactions are known. Blame ALSA for PA's faults while ALSA supports

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Mauro Santos
On 29-01-2012 15:03, Norbert Zeh wrote: As many others, I am happily running without PA and will probably be able to continue to do so for a long time because I don't even use Gnome or KDE. I just felt the need to add to the discussion because some people in this thread defend PA as the

Re: [arch-general] python problems while compiling Android 4.0

2012-01-29 Thread Guillaume Brunerie
2012/1/29 Madhurya Kakati mkakati2...@gmail.com: Hi, I am trying to compile android 4.0 with the help of an article I found online[1]. When I execute a command I get the following error: $ python2 ~/bin/repo init -u http://git.android-x86.org/manifest -b ics-x86  File

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Martti Kühne
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:03:13AM -0400, Norbert Zeh wrote: Things I observed (on Ubuntu, Mint, openSUSE, Arch...so it's not distro-specific) were way too low input (mic) and output volumes even when setting the volume controls to 100%. I really wanted to use PA because it offers something

Re: [arch-general] New PC and data copying -- am I doing this right?

2012-01-29 Thread Kwpolska
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 12:44 +0100, Kwpolska wrote: It's an OEM, I'm changing PCs, so it won't work.  I am reinstalling Windows anyway, because using XP on such machine (3-core AMD Athlon 3.4GHz, GeForce GTS450,

Re: [arch-general] python problems while compiling Android 4.0

2012-01-29 Thread Clive Cooper
I had the same problem with ChromiumOS, the problem is indeed that the scripts are exec'ing python without knowing that it’s python3 (and of course it occurs even if you run python2 in the first place) The solution I found is the following : mkdir /tmp/python2 ln -s /usr/bin/python2

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 16:57 +0100, Martti Kühne wrote: it's actually possible to get most features that come with gdm, eg. session chooser, working with xdm. This was the same for GDM. What would you do if the next upgrade will make XDM depend to PA? Of cause, you'll simply install another

Re: [arch-general] New PC and data copying -- am I doing this right?

2012-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 17:28 +0100, Kwpolska wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Ralf Mardorf Perhaps you've got good reasons to install Windows, if not, try wine or try to install Windows to a virtual machine, since this at least could save the trouble to reboot. Have you ever

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Thanasis Georgiou
On 29 January 2012 18:44, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: [snip] When I've got a set up and I'll upgrade it, it's ok if things get borked, because of a new sound server. But if a group of people file bug reports, than it's ignorant not to fix the new sound server, but instead

Re: [arch-general] python problems while compiling Android 4.0

2012-01-29 Thread Martti Kühne
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 04:33:54PM +, Clive Cooper wrote: This will make python refer to python3, but only for the current shell. If it is of any interest I had a similar problem when compiling alsalib. I just uninstalled python3. Done the compiling and then reinstalled python3. It worked

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Thanasis Georgiou sakisd...@gmail.comwrote: On 29 January 2012 18:44, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: [snip] When I've got a set up and I'll upgrade it, it's ok if things get borked, because of a new sound server. But if a group of people

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Martti Kühne
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 05:44:46PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 16:57 +0100, Martti Kühne wrote: it's actually possible to get most features that come with gdm, eg. session chooser, working with xdm. This was the same for GDM. What would you do if the next upgrade will

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 05:44:46PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 16:57 +0100, Martti Kühne wrote: it's actually possible to get most features that come with gdm, eg. session chooser, working with xdm.

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 18:52 +0100, Martti Kühne wrote: Great. So the patches for the actual problem - GDM - are out next week? Leave a message if you need any help with that. You would naturally start with Why do you diss me? It's not the problem. If it would be GDM only than simply use this:

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Martti Kühne
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 07:28:31PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: ./configure --disable-pulse when compiling gnome-settings-daemon should do this for this and some other situations, but that was not what we try to explain as the problem. Awesome, is this in aur yet? :D cheers! mar77i

[arch-general] Nvidia Driver issues

2012-01-29 Thread Don deJuan
First off I just would like to start off by saying please do not tell me to use nouveau. They do not work and have not worked for me on multiple distros for well over a year now. I also need cuda support on my laptop. I am currently running the xorg-nv driver. I am at a complete loss as far

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Kwpolska
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 07:28:31PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: ./configure --disable-pulse when compiling gnome-settings-daemon should do this for this and some other situations, but that was not what we try to explain as

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:44:46 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 16:57 +0100, Martti Kühne wrote: it's actually possible to get most features that come with gdm, eg. session chooser, working with xdm. This was the same for GDM. What would you do if

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia Driver issues

2012-01-29 Thread Karol Babioch
Hi, do you have any log files? Because helping you just by reading about the issues is quite hard. I haven't experienced anything similar to your description so far. Am 29.01.2012 19:54, schrieb Don deJuan: but on arch forums and on here I read of many people with no issue with current X and

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia Driver issues

2012-01-29 Thread Don deJuan
On 01/29/2012 11:28 AM, Karol Babioch wrote: Hi, do you have any log files? Because helping you just by reading about the issues is quite hard. I haven't experienced anything similar to your description so far. Sadly I can not find any logs that state anything relating to the issue I have.

[arch-general] [solved] Pulseaudio - was Re: change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) the real issue isn't solved, but here are two hints how to get rid of PA for current Arch Linux, to stop the never ending, useless discussion. On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 13:23 -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: Just get your job done and in the evening rebuild the package. I'm using this package

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:42:33 + schrieb Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org: They *DO* know and understand the difference between consumer and 'pro' audio. I have another impression. I wonder what your problem is. There is no audio production software I know of that uses or depends on

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:35:07 +0100 schrieb Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl: Indeed, this should be the thing the complainers _should_ be doing. Archlinux ships vanilla upstream, so you're really barking at the wrong tree here. Please consider asking either PA for help or ditch it. I don't

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:03:13 -0400 schrieb Norbert Zeh n...@cs.dal.ca: Let me chime in here to add an important point to this discussion. The whole discussion so far sounds as if PA works great with non-pro cards and breaks only on pro cards. That's not the case: PA has problems even with

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Norbert Zeh n...@cs.dal.ca wrote: Things I observed (on Ubuntu, Mint, openSUSE, Arch...so it's not distro-specific) were way too low input (mic) and output volumes even when setting the volume controls to 100%.  I really wanted to use PA because it offers

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:02:25PM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:42:33 + schrieb Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org: They *DO* know and understand the difference between consumer and 'pro' audio. I have another impression. Could be. My impression is based on

Re: [arch-general] [solved] Pulseaudio - was Re: change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:27:46 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Hi :) the real issue isn't solved, but here are two hints how to get rid of PA for current Arch Linux, to stop the never ending, useless discussion. On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 13:23 -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote:

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 22:41 +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Norbert Zeh n...@cs.dal.ca wrote: Things I observed (on Ubuntu, Mint, openSUSE, Arch...so it's not distro-specific) were way too low input (mic) and output volumes even when setting the volume controls

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:55:28 + schrieb Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org: Could be. My impression is based on talking with LP face to face. And yours ? My is based on a bug report, upstream's solution for closing this bug report - this weird ALSA configuration which cripples those cards

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:17:38PM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: My is based on a bug report, upstream's solution for closing this bug report - this weird ALSA configuration which cripples those cards to pure stereo cards - and their response to the reopening of this bug report. The ALSA

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Since the sound device is ok when using ALSA only, the +4dBu vs -10dBV information or any ratio dB to fader position or what ever you mean, must be somewhere provided correctly by ALSA. If such a dB issue should

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Norbert Zeh
Tom Gundersen [2012.01.29 2241 +0100]: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Norbert Zeh n...@cs.dal.ca wrote: Things I observed (on Ubuntu, Mint, openSUSE, Arch...so it's not distro-specific) were way too low input (mic) and output volumes even when setting the volume controls to 100%.  I

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Norbert Zeh n...@cs.dal.ca wrote: Thanks, Tom.  Now that I know where to look next, I'll play with this next time I have some spare time for this kind of stuff. I recommend going to #systemd on freenode if you have data/questions, they are very friendly and

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:33:34PM +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote: ALSA is not using this information in the same way (if at all). It is a well known problem that PA will act crazy if the dB values from ALSA are wrong, but ALSA itself mostly does not care (because the user is setting all the

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 23:33 +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Since the sound device is ok when using ALSA only, the +4dBu vs -10dBV information or any ratio dB to fader position or what ever you mean, must be

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 23:11 +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: A trained audio engineer knows how to find out such things and get them right, but the average user is completely lost if there is more than one control that affects volume. So I have translated the text correctly. Comparing two 1s

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:28:00AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 23:11 +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: A trained audio engineer knows how to find out such things and get them right, but the average user is completely lost if there is more than one control that affects

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Jan Steffens
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: I didn't say anything about pro-audio software, I've spoken about DEs like Gnome 3 and some distros which want to have PA installed as a dependency and probably don't work anymore without PA. If this is or at least will

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.8.0 hits [testing]

2012-01-29 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/27/2012 01:55 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: I confirm that after a few sleep cycles - when I pull A/C on laptop while its awake, the power applet does not put the laptop into battery mode. I filed a bug here since this is clearly an upstream issue.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.8.0 hits [testing]

2012-01-29 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/28/2012 03:26 AM, Morris wrote: Hello Gene, I have a W520 too and I can share what I did for power management in KDE: ... using these settings my laptop correctly switches profile on AC-BAT (and viceversa) events Cheers, Morris [1] -

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.8.0 hits [testing]

2012-01-29 Thread Genes MailLists
cpupower followup: I installed cpupower but a short test for me didn't work .. 1) ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreqy Is empty .. 2) cpupower -c 0 frequency-set -g ondemand Setting cpu: 0 Error setting new values. Common errors: - Do you have proper administration rights?

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.8.0 hits [testing]

2012-01-29 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/29/2012 11:04 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: I need to read more ... to get the right driver installed first I guess. Lots of great info here .. doh me .. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CPU_Frequency_Scaling

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.8.0 hits [testing]

2012-01-29 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/28/2012 03:26 AM, Morris wrote: I have a W520 too and I can share what I did for power management in KDE: - first of all, I suggest you to install tlp [1] from aur - I wrote a little bash script [2] to set cpufreq's governor and lcd's brightness, located in /root/governor.sh -

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Bernardo Barros
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Jan Steffens jan.steff...@gmail.com wrote: You seem to possess the misconception that the existence of PA on a system is somehow in conflict with pro-audio software. It's true that professional users typically make some compromises to have the best system for

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Bernardo Barros
^^^battery life

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.8.0 hits [testing]

2012-01-29 Thread Genes MailLists
After installing cpupower package - (thanks wiki :-)) and modprobing acpi_cpufreq cpufreq_ondemand and starting the cpopower daemon it seems that the screen dimming is working correctly now in KDE - I will check the cpupower frequency state to confirm - and check and check that it

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia Driver issues

2012-01-29 Thread Don deJuan
On 01/29/2012 11:28 AM, Karol Babioch wrote: Hi, do you have any log files? Because helping you just by reading about the issues is quite hard. I haven't experienced anything similar to your description so far. Am 29.01.2012 19:54, schrieb Don deJuan: but on arch forums and on here I read of