[arch-general] Lenovo carbon X1 and kernel 3.19 issues

2015-04-05 Thread andrea crotti
Hi guys, I have a Lenovo Carbon X1 third generation, just bought a few months ago. Everything worked perfectly but a week ago I upgraded to the new kernel version: Linux carbon 3.19.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 18 16:21:02 CET 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux After that two problems started: 1. Audio

[arch-general] Arch on SSD!

2012-10-21 Thread Andrea Crotti
I bought a crucial M4 (128GB) for my laptop, and now the idea is to move the operating system and most of the data there, keeping the other disk in the cd-bay as second disk. I formatted the SSD disk like this: Disk /dev/sda: 128.0 GB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors Units = sectors of 1

Re: [arch-general] Running Spin

2012-08-20 Thread andrea crotti
2012/8/20 Guillaume Brunerie guillaume.brune...@gmail.com: Hello, Did you try to recompile it? According to the FHS, If a C preprocessor is installed, /lib/cpp must be a reference to it, for historical reasons. But it seems that ArchLinux got rid of it recently (this file was present

[arch-general] arduino mega2560 and gcc-avr

2012-07-17 Thread andrea crotti
I'm trying to use my arduino mega2560 with arch but there's no way to get it working yet.. I installed the arduino 1.0.1-1, and everything seems to work, until I try to use the Serial, when I get (compiling from gnoduino): avr:5 architecture of input file

Re: [arch-general] crazy mount process

2012-07-16 Thread Andrea Crotti
On 07/16/2012 08:19 PM, Aurko Roy wrote: I had a similar problem today when I tried to mount my portable hard drives. The mount process would consume 100% cpu and could not be killed. Further when I tried to give the shutdown/halt command the system would not shut down either. The next time I

[arch-general] arch with a specific kernel version

2012-07-12 Thread andrea crotti
I would like to create multiple arch linux installations with a specific (a quite old 2.6 version) kernel version. Is that in theory possible/easy? I have a new one recently created but the downport doesn't seem so easy, so maybe it would just be easier to start with an older one, any

Re: [arch-general] arch with a specific kernel version

2012-07-12 Thread andrea crotti
I need 2.6.32 so it might still work.. The glibc for example though requires linux3 kernel apparently, if I just recompile the kernel will it still work fine?

Re: [arch-general] arch with a specific kernel version

2012-07-12 Thread andrea crotti
2012/7/12 Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org: Am 12.07.2012 16:38, schrieb andrea crotti: I need 2.6.32 so it might still work.. The glibc for example though requires linux3 kernel apparently No, the glibc requires 2.6.32 (didn't I just say that?): https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit

Re: [arch-general] arch with a specific kernel version

2012-07-12 Thread andrea crotti
Ok thanks, I'm trying now but the vanilla kernel doesn't compile. Looking around in the forum it appears to be the gcc version too new and I'm installing gcc 4.5, let's see if I get it working.. Otherwise another option might be to install from an old arch installer, but then I have the same

[arch-general] usb disk not visible

2012-04-09 Thread Andrea Crotti
I have a problem with an external USB disk here, which is a WD 500Gb bought last year. Recently I decided finally to format it to ext3, since I'm using Linux everywhere, but now I don't seem to see it from my dell latitude. On my mini dell everything works perfectly, but on the latitude I get

Re: [arch-general] usb disk not visible

2012-04-09 Thread Andrea Crotti
On 04/09/2012 06:09 PM, Manolo Martínez wrote: udisks --enumerate shows it? I'm sure you have looked into it, but any chance that it's in, say, /dev/sdc? This is what I get: /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/dm_2d0 /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/dm_2d1 /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/dm_2d2

Re: [arch-general] usb disk not visible

2012-04-09 Thread Andrea Crotti
On 04/09/2012 06:31 PM, Guus Snijders wrote: Op 9 apr. 2012 19:05 schreef Andrea Crottiandrea.crott...@gmail.com het volgende: I have a problem with an external USB disk here, which is a WD 500Gb bought last year. Recently I decided finally to format it to ext3, since I'm using Linux

Re: [arch-general] usb disk not visible

2012-04-09 Thread Andrea Crotti
On 04/09/2012 06:45 PM, Andrea Crotti wrote: All USB ports work perfectly on this machine as far as I can tell. I now tried all three ports and exactly same results. Can it be something in the kernel? Or maybe UDEV configuration (which I guess should come at a later stage, so it should

Re: [arch-general] Anyone willing to share experiences running Arch on a current-gen MacBook Pro?

2012-03-23 Thread andrea crotti
I had two macbook pro (one unibody and a previous one) and I finally got rid of it last year to buy a dell latitude. I could not be more happy, and I don't really understand in what sense macbooks are so good. - the pro machine has a crappy glossy monitor by default - it gets too hot (mine

[arch-general] keyboard problem

2012-02-27 Thread Andrea Crotti
I'm trying to remove Gnome from another machine, but here starting Xorg with startx gives the following error: (EE) Microsoft Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000: failed to initialize for relative axes. While GDM works perfectly fine. How can it make a difference? And where should be the

Re: [arch-general] keyboard problem

2012-02-27 Thread Andrea Crotti
On 02/27/2012 10:36 AM, Jason Steadman wrote: On 27 February 2012 10:34, Andrea Crottiandrea.crott...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to remove Gnome from another machine, but here starting Xorg with startx gives the following error: (EE) Microsoft Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000: failed to

Re: [arch-general] moving away from gnome

2012-02-26 Thread Andrea Crotti
On 02/25/2012 09:13 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I don't have GNOME installed, but I decided to use GDM. Isn't there such an entry as I've got: [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ grep gdm /etc/inittab x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon - Ralf I had that line, but my interpretation was that if the

Re: [arch-general] moving away from gnome

2012-02-26 Thread Andrea Crotti
On 02/26/2012 10:01 AM, Jesse Jaara wrote: I bet you have '5' at the end of your kernel commandline. You won that was it :)

Re: [arch-general] moving away from gnome

2012-02-26 Thread Andrea Crotti
I'm getting very close to a final solution :) So now the only thing left to do is to make sure that these are executed (this is my .xprofile): if [ -x $(which gpg-agent) ]; then if test -f $HOME/.gpg-agent-info \ kill -0 $(cut -d: -f 2 $HOME/.gpg-agent-info) 2/dev/null then

[arch-general] inotify and locate

2012-02-26 Thread Andrea Crotti
It's a bit a shame that there isn't any default good indexing system for Linux. Now there is also a inotify implementation and tools to set up watchers on the filesystem, so why are we still mainly stuck with locate and the expensive updatedb? Are there other problems with the inotify approach

Re: [arch-general] inotify and locate

2012-02-26 Thread Andrea Crotti
On 02/26/2012 12:18 PM, Raven wrote: On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:49:55 +0800, Andrea Crotti andrea.crott...@gmail.com wrote: It's a bit a shame that there isn't any default good indexing system for Linux. Now there is also a inotify implementation and tools to set up watchers on the filesystem

Re: [arch-general] inotify and locate

2012-02-26 Thread Andrea Crotti
On 02/26/2012 12:23 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote: It is only for Linux. That was my barrier. It has no portability to Mac or BSDs. It is a great tool and really comes in handy. There is an package called inotify-tools that does some basic watching. I've used it in the past. Calvin Well mac has

Re: [arch-general] moving away from gnome

2012-02-26 Thread Andrea Crotti
On 02/26/2012 03:32 PM, mike cloaked wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Andrea Crotti andrea.crott...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting very close to a final solution :) So now the only thing left to do is to make sure that these are executed (this is my .xprofile): if [ -x $(which gpg

[arch-general] pacman -Qdt

2012-02-26 Thread Andrea Crotti
I've been using this very nice command after removing a lot of stuff, and it's great to find orphans. But I think there are some issues.. For example I just installed python2-tinkerer from aur, which needs python2-sphinx. I had installed python-sphinx and they interfere with each other. So I

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Qdt

2012-02-26 Thread Andrea Crotti
On 02/26/2012 07:14 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Andrea Crotti andrea.crott...@gmail.com wrote: Is it maybe that packages from aur don't have the same weight when checking for reverse dependencies? How exactly did you install these packages from 'pacman -Qdt

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Qdt

2012-02-26 Thread Andrea Crotti
On 02/26/2012 07:57 PM, rafael ff1 wrote: 2012/2/26 Andrea Crottiandrea.crott...@gmail.com: Well I just installed them as dependencies from yaourt -S python2-tinkerer and if they are installed as dependencies of something which is still installed, they should not be marked as orphans, right?

[arch-general] moving away from gnome

2012-02-25 Thread Andrea Crotti
I would like to move away from Gnome, which I don't need at all since I only need to launch: - emacs - conkeror - thunderbird - gnome-terminal and I don't even use the menu but Alt-f2 for that. The main problem though is that on this laptop (a dell latitude E6420) if I'm not using gnome I can't

Re: [arch-general] moving away from gnome

2012-02-25 Thread Andrea Crotti
On 02/25/2012 07:22 PM, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote: lauantai, 25. helmikuuta 2012 20:19:31 Jan Steffens kirjoitti: Probably gnome-settings-daemon The GNOME Settings Daemon is responsible for setting various parameters of a GNOME Session and the applications that run under it. Short: is the GConf

Re: [arch-general] moving away from gnome

2012-02-25 Thread Andrea Crotti
On 02/25/2012 08:12 PM, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote: lauantai, 25. helmikuuta 2012 20:06:28 Andrea Crotti kirjoitti: Now the next problem is that networkmanager doesn't see any networks, and wicd tries to connect but the password is refused. I think this again has something to do with ConsoleKit

Re: [arch-general] ffmpeg and libav

2012-02-12 Thread Andrea Crotti
On 02/12/2012 12:20 AM, Jesse Jaara wrote: Dunno about mplater but mplayer2 uses lubav, but is conpitable with ffmpeg after config script patch (version missmach) Yes exactly, I don't know many details myself but what I'm sure about is that almost all the core developers switched to libav, and

Re: [arch-general] ffmpeg and libav

2012-02-11 Thread Andrea Crotti
On 02/11/2012 07:30 PM, Ionut Biru wrote: On 02/11/2012 09:26 PM, Andrea Crotti wrote: I am not part of the libav team, but I know many developers and I followed the story of the fork. I then also noticed that my beloved arch is still using ffmpeg and libav is not even in the official

[arch-general] Motion

2011-01-09 Thread Andrea Crotti
I'm trying to setup motion http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome at the moment since I didn't find anything interesting natively on OSX I was trying to configure inside the virtual machine. (this is the kernel Linux test 2.6.36-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 24 00:39:57 CET 2010

Re: [arch-general] Motion

2011-01-09 Thread Andrea Crotti
Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl writes: Then there might be a bug in the rc.d script, did you check out what it does? Well the rc.d is correct actually, the problem is that with killall motion motion doesn't quit, so the rc.d script [ ! -z $PID ] kill $PID /dev/null of course doesn't

Re: [arch-general] Motion

2011-01-09 Thread Andrea Crotti
Ray Rashif sc...@archlinux.org writes: On 9 January 2011 22:47, Andrea Crotti andrea.crott...@gmail.com wrote: Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl writes: Then there might be a bug in the rc.d script, did you check out what it does? Well the rc.d is correct actually, the problem

Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini

2010-08-18 Thread Andrea Crotti
Ray Rashif schivmeis...@gmail.com writes: I got a hold of the AspireOne. Plugged in my Arch-on-a-Stick and BAM! 3D is DEAD. Or, dying. I'm giving up on this as a regression of intel/mesa, because some months ago this same netbook played UrbanTerror on Ubuntu Netbook Remix. I can't test it

Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini

2010-08-18 Thread Andrea Crotti
Andrea Crotti andrea.crott...@gmail.com writes: Ray Rashif schivmeis...@gmail.com writes: I got a hold of the AspireOne. Plugged in my Arch-on-a-Stick and BAM! 3D is DEAD. Or, dying. I'm giving up on this as a regression of intel/mesa, because some months ago this same netbook played

Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini

2010-08-18 Thread Andrea Crotti
Andrea Crotti andrea.crott...@gmail.com writes: Ok great, now after modprobe psb the framebuffer goes to an amazing resolution (the native I guess). But starting X is veryy bad still, maybe I have to tell to Xorg to load the psb driver... Very exciting we're almost there, I added

Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini

2010-08-18 Thread Andrea Crotti
Not done yet, even adding the right modes to the xorg.conf I can always only see the 1024x576 from xrandr. But another bad news, some kernel errors (I guess conflicts between psb and reiserfs) don't let me start networkmanager anymore, which is a bad thing...

[arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini

2010-08-12 Thread Andrea Crotti
I have a nice del mini 10 with archlinux and XFCE4 It works great after I updated the kernel the audio and the camera started to work, which is nice. BUT - I think the 3d still doesn't work, I followed the guide (using intel-dri drivers) and video now runs smoothly, but glgears is still very

Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini

2010-08-12 Thread Andrea Crotti
Ray Rashif schivmeis...@gmail.com writes: Get a 3D game. I could play UrbanTerror on 800x600 and low details at 24+ FPS on an Acer AspireOne. Mm something less big and easier to install :D? Downloading tuxkart, let's see. Strange because it looks faster then before but not fast as the 3d would

Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini

2010-08-12 Thread Andrea Crotti
Alessandro Doro ordo...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 04:56:33PM +0200, Andrea Crotti wrote: Since I've read somewhere that is not a good measure, how do I know for sure if 3d is activated or not? glxinfo |grep ^direct rendering: I already looked at that and I get Yes

Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini

2010-08-12 Thread Andrea Crotti
didier gaumet didier.gau...@gmail.com writes: Le Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:31:16 +0200, Andrea Crotti andrea.crott...@gmail.com wrote about problems with his wireless card often deconnecting. hi, I have had a similar problem (non-US citizen) and after having setup crda, it works now like a charm

[arch-general] Ssl no more :(

2010-04-20 Thread Andrea Crotti
I was wondering why I was not able to login to a remote arch server. Openvpn is still working and luckily also webmin, so I logged in and I saw this: --8---cut here---start-8--- /etc/rc.d/sshd restart :: Stopping Secure Shell Daemon[BUSY][FAIL] ::

Re: [arch-general] Ssl no more :(

2010-04-20 Thread Andrea Crotti
Evangelos Foutras foutre...@gmail.com writes: How did you produce that output? :) lsof | grep libcrypt a great tool ;) Restarting the services made the trick, thanks everyone

Re: [arch-general] Why taking so long?

2010-01-31 Thread Andrea Crotti
Ray Rashif schivmeis...@gmail.com writes: In the latest kernel, there is 'make localmodconfig' for precisely this problem. Thanks to all of you, I recorded everything so I'll try next time. By the way I had to mask the kernel26 build (even if I don't use it) because broadcom-wl is always a bit

Re: [arch-general] Little problems with arch

2010-01-30 Thread Andrea Crotti
Andrea Fagiani andfagi...@gmail.com writes: Hi Andrea, 1) time issue ... Great, that solved everything :) Now it wouldn't be so bad to have the 3d working but I don't want to lose too much time. I had already opened a discussion on the forum http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=71102 If

[arch-general] Why taking so long?

2010-01-30 Thread Andrea Crotti
Sometimes (only twice actually) I had to recompile the kernel with ice support from aur. Now compiling the kernel is not a short job, but it looks like it really compiles EVERYTHING! Maybe putting my .config somewhere it will not do it, how do you manage it? Thanks

[arch-general] Little problems with arch

2010-01-29 Thread Andrea Crotti
I have a little dell 10 with archlinux. Unfortunately the audio and 3d are not really working, I tried hard some time ago but with no luck, anyway other problems are more annoying. - time getting crazy Every time I reboot this little machine the date is set somehow randomly. Any idea of what