Re: [arch-general] Why not create a new repo specified for games ?

2011-11-01 Thread Mauro Santos
it to be, a rounding error. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Why not create a new repo specified for games ?

2011-11-01 Thread Mauro Santos
On 01-11-2011 21:01, Leonid Isaev wrote: On (11/01/11 20:45), Mauro Santos wrote: -~ On 01-11-2011 17:34, Leonid Isaev wrote: -~ On (11/01/11 16:40), Matej Ľach wrote: -~ -~ I support this idea. -~ -~ Keep most games in AUR and the more popular ones can have their -~ -~ own repo [games

Re: [arch-general] coping with damaging updates

2011-10-27 Thread Mauro Santos
-session dbus-launch startxfce in ya .xinitrc ^^ You only need 'exec ck-launch-session startxfce4' in .xinitrc because startxfce4 will call dbus-launch itself. And yes, I'm using xfce and everything works just fine, I don't use any login manager though, don't see the need for it :p -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] coping with damaging updates

2011-10-27 Thread Mauro Santos
On 27-10-2011 17:48, Manolo Martínez wrote: On 10/27/11 at 11:24am, Leonid Isaev wrote: you should let console-kit do the permission granting. In fact, on a modern linux system you only have to be a member of 1 group: users. And wheel? And video, uucp, kvm, just to name a few. -- Mauro

Re: [arch-general] coping with damaging updates

2011-10-27 Thread Mauro Santos
you can but right now you can't. -- Mauro Santos

[arch-general] udevd related warning after initscripts update

2011-10-23 Thread Mauro Santos
) [Done] Saving random seed [Done] ... In my case sda2 is the swap partition, nothing seems to break as swap still gets enabled when the machine boots but I was wondering if this is expected and if this might cause trouble for some corner case. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] udevd related warning after initscripts update

2011-10-23 Thread Mauro Santos
shutdown happens really fast and there isn't much time to read any warnings or errors. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] udevd related warning after initscripts update

2011-10-23 Thread Mauro Santos
On 23-10-2011 19:35, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Mauro Santos registo.maill...@gmail.com wrote: Do you know if the shutdown messages are logged somewhere or if it's possible to log them somewhere (I've grepped through the logs but didn't find anything), as it might

Re: [arch-general] no ACPI estimate in powertop with latest kernels

2011-10-10 Thread Mauro Santos
core, in a ThinkPad Edge 14 running Gnome 3.2 fully upgraded daily. -- Neal I guess this will make it clear, I was looking for it too so serves as a reference to me :) https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=127795 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25845 -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Howto find alternate ABS source download mirror?

2011-10-10 Thread Mauro Santos
://ftp.archlinux.org/other/ Sorry for the noise. abs -t might do the trick for you, it will sync via tarball from the mirror you use for packages. At least it's what abs -h says and what is defined in /etc/abs.conf Never tried it myself though. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Adopting start-stop-daemon in archlinux

2011-09-08 Thread Mauro Santos
in [community] (or [extra]) as an alternative or maybe as a dependency of those misbehaving daemons that need special handling. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] How big really is the MBR?

2011-09-03 Thread Mauro Santos
different set of problems. Thanks! No google and wikipedia in your area? A block size of 440 bytes should be enough to wipe the code area but you can use or may have to use up to a maximum of 446 bytes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] New GTK update make LibreOffice 'save' document type unreadable

2011-09-01 Thread Mauro Santos
or shouldn't affect you. On another note I confirm that other gtk apps are also affected and that downgrading to the previous package version solves the problem for now. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] New GTK update make LibreOffice 'save' document type unreadable

2011-08-31 Thread Mauro Santos
is unchecked. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] CD eject as non-root user

2011-08-18 Thread Mauro Santos
after unmounting I believe that is an old behaviour, either the kernel or the mount command soft lock the drive when media is mounted but will not soft unlock it when unmounting, I remember seeing this behaviour quite some time ago, so for me at least this is nothing new. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Weird behaviour A/C vs battery

2011-08-13 Thread Mauro Santos
, I don't know if there is any way to use the old method but I guess that even if there is this is worth a bug report in the kernel bugtracker. [1] http://mjg59.livejournal.com/137313.html -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Installation of libreoffice

2011-08-03 Thread Mauro Santos
else gtk dependent that is officially supported by arch. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] virtual memory exhausted

2011-07-29 Thread Mauro Santos
goes haywire and starts spawning threads it can crash your machine very quickly (think fork bomb), even the default value seems to be too much for normal usage. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] virtual memory exhausted

2011-07-29 Thread Mauro Santos
might help avoid some crashes. The only trouble with this stuff is that one size doesn't fit all and what may be sensible to some users might not be enough (or too much) for others. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Note: WDC Carvair Black 6 Gbps drives require jumpers on pins 5-6 to be recognized as SATA-II

2011-07-24 Thread Mauro Santos
interface (probably for most use cases you can't tell the difference). -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping tcp_wrapper support

2011-07-16 Thread Mauro Santos
in. You've to setup iptables to deny all input and accept only what you need. I never used iptables before, but now I find its syntax really simple, and powerful. And while you are at it you might want to consider restricting the allowed outbound ip/ports for good measure ;) -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Archlinux is for everyone

2011-07-09 Thread Mauro Santos
On 09-07-2011 18:15, Yaro Kasear wrote: The macs are a disgrace. Why should mid-range PCs be priced like top-of-the- line gaming rigs? Because they are imagical, they have the wifis and the bigger GBs and dont forget the apps. Just don't hold it iwrong :p -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Warning - Thunderbird 5 Breaks Access to pop accounts

2011-06-29 Thread Mauro Santos
communications. I rebooted, I tried everything. Finally I had to downgrade to thunderbird-3.1.11-1 to restore access to my pop accounts. Anyone else see this? Works fine here with 7 pop3 accounts from 3 different providers. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Warning - Thunderbird 5 Breaks Access to pop accounts

2011-06-29 Thread Mauro Santos
in the thunderbird package -- or-- is part of it in xulrunner, etc..? xulrunner doesn't even seem to be needed anymore, at least it's not a dependency anymore, either for firefox or thunderbird. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] weird problem

2011-06-19 Thread Mauro Santos
are not supported) you should know what you are doing so you how know how to deal with these kind of conflicts and possible breakage that might happen. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Reboot - Versioned Kernel Installs

2011-06-10 Thread Mauro Santos
of emergency. Then you can just chroot into the broken install and fix the problem or tell pacman where the root and cache are located and fix things. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] coreutils-8.12-2, initscripts-2011.06.3-1, net-tools-1.60-16, udev-171-2, yp-tools-2.12-2, ypbind-mt-1.33-2, iproute2-2.6.38-3

2011-06-08 Thread Mauro Santos
arguments. As a side note, at first glance it seems 'ip' needs a lot more typing than ifconfig needs, at least for the stuff I use more often. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] After the recent linux kernel update booting fails if usb disks are present in /etc/fstab

2011-06-06 Thread Mauro Santos
really belong in there, use consolekit or whatever KDE SC or GNOME use. Use pmount, whatever. What if you are booting from usb into a system with gui capabilities and all rescue/work/whatever tools you might need? -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Reboot - Versioned Kernel Installs

2011-06-06 Thread Mauro Santos
. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] whitebox on bootup after KMS kicks in

2011-05-28 Thread Mauro Santos
On 28-05-2011 06:02, C Anthony Risinger wrote: does anyone else experience title? Works fine for me, using early KMS with radeon on a RV610 card. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'

2011-05-25 Thread Mauro Santos
for this system == pacman -S kernel That sounds good actually, arch is bleeding edge so naming the packages kernel and kernel-lts should be enough, the package version would take care of the rest even if the version jumps to 2.8 then 3.0 and then 2012.01 or whatever. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Cannot Find Desktop in GNOME3

2011-05-09 Thread Mauro Santos
. [1] https://www.archlinux.de/?page=FunStatistics Even more off-topic, aren't percentages supposed to add to 100%? :p -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Drop non-free ?! (Was: Commit in ffmpeg/trunk)

2011-05-07 Thread Mauro Santos
this software patent stuff is getting ridiculous but it's what we have now. As far as I know most if not all distros (and upstream) are leaving the choice of using patented stuff up to the end user. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-30 Thread Mauro Santos
is discouraged. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] GNOME3 in [testing]

2011-04-09 Thread Mauro Santos
audio path is not stellar so ymmv. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] - pulseaudio - GNOME3 in [testing]

2011-04-09 Thread Mauro Santos
? It works fine here with minimal cpu usage. Also make sure you dont have any pavucontrol or volume metering apps running. I've found those can be quite taxing on the cpu. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] qemu-kvm vs. qemu upstream

2011-02-24 Thread Mauro Santos
, it will still fallback to using emulation is kvm support is not found or can't be used. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU#Using_the_Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-ati, xbrightness and KMS bug

2011-02-14 Thread Mauro Santos
: 2.6.37-5 Driver: 6.14.0-1 xorg.conf.d file: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/338214/ That's how it's supposed to be, afaik the drivers don't support UMS anymore. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

2011-01-24 Thread Mauro Santos
to complete the registration process, or keep nagging you afterwards telling you that you are not keeping in touch with your friends, please give us your email's password and let us mass spam everyone (tm). -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

2011-01-24 Thread Mauro Santos
-- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Rail Model font for coders

2011-01-22 Thread Mauro Santos
. However, I also gave the original post the benefit of the doubt since it seems to be something that may benefit a community of people (personally I have no idea what the OP was on about). -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] GPT slower than MBR, although both are properly aligned?

2011-01-22 Thread Mauro Santos
may be wrong though ... it would not the the first time :p -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] GPT slower than MBR, although both are properly aligned?

2011-01-22 Thread Mauro Santos
but with 512B sectors emulation it is not very easy to get the alignment right. Maybe things will improve once the drives can report the true minimum sector size they use for writing, which I guess they should start doing soon or it will be a hidden bloody mess for everyone :p -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] adding hunspell-xx packages

2011-01-15 Thread Mauro Santos
Added Hunspell and Thesaurus packages for Portuguese (European) to the AUR. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45431 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45430 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45432 -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] VirtualBox_bin 3.12 - slow system freeze on i686, OK on x86_64

2010-12-09 Thread Mauro Santos
/ticket/7605 -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Patent protection

2010-12-09 Thread Mauro Santos
the small guys close the shop if they want to. It would be interesting to know what other distros are doing, specially the larger ones which might be a target first. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread Mauro Santos
. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-27 Thread Mauro Santos
support pulse. However vlc-pulse-plugin is not listed as an optdepend and maybe it should be. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-27 Thread Mauro Santos
On 27-11-2010 13:19, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 11:33 +, Mauro Santos wrote: On 27-11-2010 01:18, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 21:34 +0100, Jan Steffens wrote: I've put PulseAudio into [testing] some time ago, but received no feedback on this. This either means

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Boot loaders in core/base

2010-11-20 Thread Mauro Santos
if support is flaky. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Strange Xorg issue - no init of NV 8800GT - reboot - late init?

2010-10-25 Thread Mauro Santos
on battery. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] no python3 package?

2010-10-20 Thread Mauro Santos
to ask their maintainers in the AUR to make the necessary changes. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] [OT]Disk showing too many bad sectors - is it going to fail ?

2010-10-17 Thread Mauro Santos
is probably already way past any possibility of data recovery at home. Mind you that the sometimes drives fail without warning or without any change in the smart attributes. This [1] is an interesting read. [1] http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] [OT]Disk showing too many bad sectors - is it going to fail ?

2010-10-16 Thread Mauro Santos
the write and readback test and see if anything changes. The not so worst case is that you caught an impending disk faillure before it caused trouble and you already have a backup, the best case is that you find out those values are bogus and should not be taken into account. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Te agregué como amigo en Facebook

2010-09-27 Thread Mauro Santos
below to unsubscribe. http://www.facebook.com/o.php?k=c0d700u=10411411962mid=30af556G5af328ffe5faG0G8 Facebook, Inc. P.O. Box 10005, Palo Alto, CA 94303 Is it just me or does this look like spam? -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Te agregué como amigo en Facebook

2010-09-27 Thread Mauro Santos
On 09/27/2010 09:41 PM, Daenyth Blank wrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 16:39, Florian Pritz bluew...@server-speed.net wrote: On 27.09.2010 22:36, uli.armbrus...@googlemail.com wrote: * Mauro Santos registo.maill...@gmail.com [27.09.2010 22:34]: Is it just me or does this look like spam

Re: [arch-general] Old news

2010-09-23 Thread Mauro Santos
On 09/23/2010 07:08 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: In my experience this is a regular one-time occurrence ;) Now that just made me grin :p -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-19 Thread Mauro Santos
the change ... it's still crappy flash with sub-par linux support. I would like to see a 64bit version of flash on the repos but I can't blame the devs/maintainers if they have some doubts about changing things yet again, it seems adobe can't make up its mind about 64bit support. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-19 Thread Mauro Santos
appropriate and the user trying it just copies the procedures verbatim is just wrong. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] pkgstats: second try

2010-09-10 Thread Mauro Santos
) and send the stats again with a new IP. (1) Here the lease seems to be for 36H, I don't know about other ISPs. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] digital camera not showing as mass storage device

2010-09-08 Thread Mauro Santos
it identifies itself? I guess this is a good time to review the manual and check what it really is capable of doing :) -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] sudoers file change - not much on dev list - reason for changes?

2010-09-07 Thread Mauro Santos
On 09/07/2010 11:52 AM, Ty John wrote: Huh. I always wondered what 'wheel' meant. I always though that it had to do with being at the wheel, as in command or in control of things. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] The principle behind MSN Yahoo invisible scanners?

2010-09-07 Thread Mauro Santos
friends there is no choice. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] The principle behind MSN Yahoo invisible scanners?

2010-09-06 Thread Mauro Santos
about this in mercury's forums, at least the problem came up there and also on amsn's forums if I remember correctly. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] The principle behind MSN Yahoo invisible scanners?

2010-09-06 Thread Mauro Santos
On 09/06/2010 11:17 PM, Mauro Santos wrote: Mind you that since some time ago it seems this feature is not reliable anymore. The are msn clients that had this functionality built-in and things have gone south when it started to malfunction and reporting some users as being blocked

Re: [arch-general] X11 crashes after pacman -Syu

2010-09-04 Thread Mauro Santos
of being unable to allocate DMA memory and aborts. My Xorg.0.log is here: http://sprunge.us/GOLS Most probably you need to set an option to ignore abi for now no idea of how to do that though, I don't own an nvidia card. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] restore hdd image to a bigger disk

2010-08-24 Thread Mauro Santos
. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] restore hdd image to a bigger disk

2010-08-24 Thread Mauro Santos
On 08/24/2010 10:20 PM, Marek Otahal wrote: On Tuesday 24 of August 2010 23:03:23 Mauro Santos wrote: On 08/24/2010 08:14 PM, Marek Otahal wrote: Hi all, I use dd command to make an image of entire /dev/sda (160GB) and back up it as netobook.hdd to an external storage. The disk contains both

Re: [arch-general] restore hdd image to a bigger disk

2010-08-24 Thread Mauro Santos
On 08/24/2010 11:44 PM, Tavian Barnes wrote: On 24 August 2010 16:02, Mauro Santos registo.maill...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/24/2010 10:20 PM, Marek Otahal wrote: On Tuesday 24 of August 2010 23:03:23 Mauro Santos wrote: On 08/24/2010 08:14 PM, Marek Otahal wrote: Hi all, I use dd command

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] At last, clean multilib support

2010-08-23 Thread Mauro Santos
, I've been using it for a good while and it has been working fine. I think the staticqt version can also help avoid some minor inconveniences that plague skype when there is a qt update, such as missing avatars. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] At last, clean multilib support

2010-08-23 Thread Mauro Santos
On 08/23/2010 01:00 PM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 08/23/2010 02:39 PM, Mauro Santos wrote: On 08/23/2010 12:18 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: I think the staticqt version can also help avoid some minor inconveniences that plague skype when there is a qt update, such as missing avatars. missing

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] At last, clean multilib support

2010-08-23 Thread Mauro Santos
On 08/23/2010 01:01 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 23.08.2010 13:39, schrieb Mauro Santos: On 08/23/2010 12:18 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: I think the staticqt version can also help avoid some minor inconveniences that plague skype when there is a qt update, such as missing avatars. Using

Re: [arch-general] mayday - new updates killed httpd - make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:443

2010-08-09 Thread Mauro Santos
to be working were actually working, right? I guess now you know you can't have two programs listening on the same port(s) and it's the sysadmin responsibility to assure that doesn't happen or deal with it when the sticky smelly stuff hits the fan. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Unload module after printer startup

2010-08-03 Thread Mauro Santos
module and try something similar for usblp, however I don't know if that will do what you want. Right now I can't remember anything else. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Unload module after printer startup

2010-08-03 Thread Mauro Santos
the packager know about the workaround and maybe submit a patch. One last thing, try not to top post, it makes reading the thread harder. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Problemas con HP1020

2010-07-30 Thread Mauro Santos
the most help possible. You should really read the Beginners' Guide, what you want is explained there [1]. [1]http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide#HARDWARE_Section -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] how to listen to internet radio?

2010-07-29 Thread Mauro Santos
. I don't know who thought it would be a good idea to lock the usage to the browser but it sure is a bad idea. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Getting firefox to use the PDF I want?

2010-07-23 Thread Mauro Santos
open in okular... Jerome However it will forget whatever you had there once you select any other option (such as save) instead of open. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Getting firefox to use the PDF I want?

2010-07-23 Thread Mauro Santos
On 07/23/2010 09:50 PM, Jérôme M. Berger wrote: Mauro Santos wrote: On 07/23/2010 08:12 PM, Jérôme M. Berger wrote: Note that if you set it up once in the pop-up, it will remember it for the next time *even if it doesn't say so*. So the next time you get the Open with... dialog

Re: [arch-general] X11 forwarding: X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 10

2010-07-21 Thread Mauro Santos
On 07/21/2010 03:49 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 07/21/2010 05:55 AM, Mauro Santos wrote: The only thing I can remember is to try: ssh -XY nirvana.3111skyline.com I usually use it with -XY because just -X or -Y (which should imply -X I guess) don't seem to work very well sometimes

Re: [arch-general] kernel26-2.6.34.1 - won't boot - stuck at Setting up UTF-8 mode or craters with kernel NULL pointer

2010-07-13 Thread Mauro Santos
of my screen. I could never figure out exactly what was wrong, starting with a cold boot sometimes it hangs, most of the times it works. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] VLC and Wine have been out-of-date too long.

2010-06-26 Thread Mauro Santos
and reply to the first one. Remove yourself from the reply-to field and that message will not be delivered to your inbox anymore. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Open Letter (Plea for Medical/Help Assistance) to World Leaders

2010-06-25 Thread Mauro Santos
, that mail comes from outside the matrix. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [extra]

2010-06-19 Thread Mauro Santos
if pulse was in [extra] it might be possible to include that too for vlc as an optdepend. As always, some users wouldn't mind while others would get really upset about that if it was a depend. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [extra]

2010-06-19 Thread Mauro Santos
, this just in case it gets into [extra]. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Open Letter (Plea for Medical/Help Assistance) to World Leaders

2010-06-15 Thread Mauro Santos
On 06/15/2010 02:35 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote: Spam? Most probably yes. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-15 Thread Mauro Santos
important. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] ALSTF (Arch Linux Security Task Force)?

2010-06-12 Thread Mauro Santos
to it, or use another distro in your critical machines that provides these features for you. I guess that up until now no one felt capable of tackling this task or the itch wasn't that bad :P -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Bad Magic Number in Superblock - Any trick for Arch or for new kernels?

2010-06-10 Thread Mauro Santos
data, now all you can do is try to decide if that drive can still be used and trust it a bit less (put it in a raid array that can tolerate failures). Unless the drive fails terribly with no margin for doubt it is hard to say, from the users point of view, if it is really failing or not. -- Mauro

Re: [arch-general] Bad Magic Number in Superblock - Any trick for Arch or for new kernels?

2010-06-10 Thread Mauro Santos
from that drive, just to learn some tricks for the future before you write to it and wonder what has caused that problem. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Bad Magic Number in Superblock - Any trick for Arch or for new kernels?

2010-06-09 Thread Mauro Santos
, keep an eye on the smart attributes because any problem not detected before may show up now. If you get no errors or smart attribute changes then the drive should be ok. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Burning From Command Line

2010-05-26 Thread Mauro Santos
. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Burning From Command Line

2010-05-26 Thread Mauro Santos
On 05/26/2010 04:59 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Mauro Santos registo.maill...@gmail.com wrote: Because I say so is not a valid backup for your claims, Earth used to be flat and the center of the universe because the experts of that time said so. This behavior gets people mad at you

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.34-1

2010-05-17 Thread Mauro Santos
that if I don't have radeon_ucode [1] installed then early or late KMS don't work and I get just a black screen. However I didn't wait 1 minute to check if after a while the boot process resumes. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33016 -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.33.3-2 (and aufs2)

2010-05-09 Thread Mauro Santos
If you have something like radeon.modeset=1 in your kernel line, remove that, that caused me some trouble and I got a kernel panic during startup with this message: /init: export: line 52: (garbled chars): bad variable Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] vnc remove

2010-05-04 Thread Mauro Santos
it still works really well if you choose the settings correctly, specially the full screen mode. The alternative, tightvnc, seems to have the fullscreen mode still broken and with no solution in sight (it seems to be a known problem with tightvnc for a long long time). -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] 4k sector drives

2010-04-30 Thread Mauro Santos
they define and format in the factory. I did not try parted but I've read that it will also align the partitions properly, but it may require some extra switch to disable the alignment to cylinders. -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] HAL dependencies

2010-04-18 Thread Mauro Santos
On 04/18/2010 12:22 AM, Rob Bean wrote: I've recently started using Xorg 1.8 from the [xorg18] repo to finally be able to get rid of HAL. Xorg is working fine, but I want to remove the remaining packages that depend on HAL. It looks like there are only 3: gnome-vfs,

[arch-general] NDN Messages

2010-04-18 Thread Mauro Santos
problem, is there any way to avoid getting this message or solving the problem? -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Sharing my repo-tools

2010-04-11 Thread Mauro Santos
On 04/11/2010 08:09 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 03:13:33 +0200, Pierre Schmitz pie...@archlinux.de wrote: I have finally put the tools I use to sync my local repo and to create those magic rebuild lists into a git repo. I polished them to increase usability and portability,

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