Re: [arch-general] Btrfs snapshots for upgrade operations

2012-10-25 Thread Christoph Rissner
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:16:02 +0200, Jan Steffens jan.steff...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Christoph Rissner c...@visotech.at wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:03:46 +0200, Jan Steffens jan.steff...@gmail.com wrote: Basically you tell the FS to subvol / to a location like

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS, a good choice for /?

2010-09-27 Thread Christoph Rissner
On 09/24/2010 03:22 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: It seems btrfs is really worth a try after so many positive feedbacks. Any ideas how can I format / with latest btrfs? I've the archiso on my pen drive which was released months ago, I guess it doesn't have the latest btrfs-progs? What's the

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS, a good choice for /?

2010-09-27 Thread Christoph Rissner
On 09/27/2010 09:12 AM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: just heads up; if you want to try the rollback stuff in mkinitcpio-btrfs (AUR), then your system_must_ live inside a subvolume (specifically... __active). the hook will do the appropriate things to prepare your system, but it will leave a

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS, a good choice for /?

2010-09-24 Thread Christoph Rissner
On 09/23/2010 05:47 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Nilesh Govindarajanli...@itech7.com wrote: No more experienced btrfs people here? @shridhar, from your btrfs experience, it seems it's worth a try, waiting for more positive feedbacks. ive had it as / on my

Re: [arch-general] community/e-svn 51937-1 BROKEN? themes fail screen resolution fail etc...

2010-09-15 Thread Christoph Rissner
On 09/15/2010 10:19 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: community/e-svn 51937-1 (e17-svn) [installed] I'm also running that version (but on i686), without any problems. I'm using the default theme (is it Black White?), mostly because I think its acceptable and the Theme Selector doesn't show

Re: [arch-general] Nouveau problem

2010-07-19 Thread Christoph Rissner
Hi, On 07/17/2010 05:30 PM, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: Today new nvidia legacy drivers were released, maybe you can try them. Can you post a link? I'm looking for nvidia 173xx, but can't find anything newer than 173.14.25 (dating from 02/2010). Or does this version work with xorg 1.8?

Re: [arch-general] intel video suspend

2010-06-18 Thread Christoph Rissner
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

Re: [arch-general] intel video suspend

2010-06-18 Thread Christoph Rissner
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

Re: [arch-general] Is preload really working ??

2010-05-07 Thread Christoph Rissner
You mean that wikientry? http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Speed-up_Firefox_using_tmpfs I did this to test how well tmpfs works for me: mv .mozilla /dev/shm/moz ln -s /dev/shm/moz .mozilla There was some difference, but not too much as expected. From what I understand this is to keep the

Re: [arch-general] intel video suspend

2010-05-07 Thread Christoph Rissner
Now from time to time (≈ once a week) when I wake it up, the screen remains black in both X and text console. Nothing can bring it back, What about suspending again, perhaps waiting a few seconds, and resuming again? Does that have a chance to help? (It helps me on my Intel card's graphic