Re: [arch-general] virtualize a w8 ntfs partition and run w8 inside Arch

2014-05-20 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from arnaud gaboury's message from Thu 15-May-14 20:56: I am ready for the dirty virtualization. Just want to share my experience with intalling MS Windows 8 (64 bit) in Virtualbox. The DVD installer crashes at very beginning. The solution is a trick of manual fine tuning the VM

Re: [arch-general] Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on aWindows8 UEFI laptop

2014-05-06 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Alan E. Davis's message from Mon 05-May-14 22:03: However, I have run into a wrinkle where nothing is working, so i need Windoze, much to my consternation. Well, the easiest and quickest way would be installing Windows in VirtualBox, that's a think you may want to have anyway.

[arch-general] ThinkPad LEDs

2014-02-17 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi folks, Does anybody know what's happened with ThinkPad LEDs control? I used to use the /proc/acpi/ibm/led interface to control LEDs, but now (just installed Archlinux on a T430) I see that only 2 LEDs work, trying to control others brings up No such device message. The working LEDs

Re: [arch-general] linux-3.4.0-1 enters [testing]

2012-05-31 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Gaetan Bisson's message from Wed 30-May-12 09:11: [2012-05-29 15:46:57 -0600] Sergey Manucharian: The problem with ath5k still persists: ath5k phy0: gain calibration timeout https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=139270 Well the two patches mentioned there made

Re: [arch-general] linux-3.4.0-1 enters [testing]

2012-05-29 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Tobias Powalowski's message from Mon 21-May-12 15:21: Hi guys, Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges The x86_32 switch is not yet enabled. Please report any issues that arise. Thanks. The problem with ath5k still persists: ath5k phy0: gain

[arch-general] is scsi hot swap broken?

2012-05-22 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi folks, Just noticed after the recent update to kernel 3.3.6, an attempt to remove a SATA HDD: # echo scsi remove-single-device 3 0 0 0 /proc/scsi/scsi takes very long time: $ dmesg sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Synchronizing SCSI cache sd 3:0:0:0: timing out command, waited 360s sd

[arch-general] qt applications over ssh tunnel: very slow redrawing

2012-03-05 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi folks, Regularly I do not use many Qt applications, mostly Skype. I run it over ssh tunnel from another computer within the same local network for long time. After recent system update I noticed it became very slow refreshing its graphics. I checked several Gtk and Qt applications and found

Re: [arch-general] qt applications over ssh tunnel: very slow redrawing

2012-03-05 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Victor Silva vfbsi...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe -C option can help: -C Requests compression of all data (including stdin, stdout, stderr, and data for forwarded X11 and TCP connections). The compression algorithm is the same used by

Re: [arch-general] wintv-hvr 850 (hybrid) not detecting any signal.

2011-10-13 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi Javier, Excerpts from Javier Vasquez's message from Mon 10-Oct-11 21:57: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Sergey Manucharian ingeniw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Javier, Excerpts from Javier Vasquez's message from Sun 09-Oct-11 11:40: On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Sergey Manucharian

Re: [arch-general] wintv-hvr 850 (hybrid) not detecting any signal.

2011-10-10 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi Javier, Excerpts from Javier Vasquez's message from Sun 09-Oct-11 11:40: On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Sergey Manucharian ingeniw...@gmail.com wrote: ... I used to use wintv-hvr 950 a year or two ago - it worked fine. Will try find those old configs and run it again

Re: [arch-general] wintv-hvr 850 (hybrid) not detecting any signal.

2011-10-09 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Javier Vasquez's message from Sat 08-Oct-11 19:48: So, no one with experience on arch with this usb device? Thanks, Javier. Hi Javier, I used to use wintv-hvr 950 a year or two ago - it worked fine. Will try find those old configs and run it again with the recent kernel

Re: [arch-general] X terminal redraw problem

2011-07-25 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Jon Gjengset's message from Sat 23-Jul-11 21:54: On 07/23/2011 09:14 PM, cantabile wrote: Sounds like the problem I've been having with atris [1] and scummvm [2]. Try those, see if you have any redraw problems (switch to fullscreen in atris; just start `scummvm` and move

[arch-general] x terminals refresh issue with latest kernels

2011-06-05 Thread Sergey Manucharian
I have already reported this problem in kernels' sign-off threads, but still have no solution... With kernels 2.6.38 or 2.6.39 xterm and rxvt do not update the content properly. E.g. I enter ps -ef command and see only the first 2 lines at the top and empty space below. In some cases the new

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38.5-1

2011-05-05 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Tobias Powalowski's message from Tue 03-May-11 13:58: bump to latest version. Please signoff both arches, I know it's already in core, just want to let know that X terminals are still unusable - do not refresh properly - with Intel GM965 (ThinkPad R61). Last time several people

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38.2-1

2011-04-02 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Tobias Powalowski's message from Thu 31-Mar-11 07:40: Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.38 series for both arches. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Features included: - latest stable patches - disabled /dev/kmem - added AMD_IOMMU support - kernel image

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38.2-1

2011-04-02 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Sergey Manucharian's message from Sat 02-Apr-11 18:27: Excerpts from Tobias Powalowski's message from Thu 31-Mar-11 07:40: signoff x86_64 Sorry, my reply was too quick - I didn't tested thoroughly... There are still artefacts in X terminals, e.g. when composing mutt messages

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38.1-1

2011-03-25 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Tobias Powalowski's message from Fri 25-Mar-11 07:46: Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Features included: - latest stable patches - disabled /dev/kmem - added AMD_IOMMU support - kernel image is now xz compressed - NUMA is enabled on x86_64 -

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38-2

2011-03-25 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Tobias Powalowski's message from Fri 25-Mar-11 20:35: Am Mittwoch 23 März 2011 schrieb Sander Jansen: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Richard Schütz r.sc...@t-online.de wrote: Am 22.03.2011 17:27, schrieb Richard Schütz: . I noticed that new X packages hit

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38-1

2011-03-19 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Richard Schütz's message from Wed 16-Mar-11 23:01: Am 16.03.2011 20:27, schrieb Tobias Powalowski: Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.38 series for both arches. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Features included: - kernel image is now xz compressed - NUMA

Re: [arch-general] Unicode in chromium?

2011-02-02 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi Magnus, Excerpts from Magnus Therning's message of Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:12 +: Any pointers to how to get proper Unicode support in chromium? I did not have a chance to research this issue, the archwiki page [1] just suggest to install particular fonts, and it helps, but does not explain

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.37-5

2011-01-29 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Tobias Powalowski's message of Sat, 29 Jan 2011 21:17 +0100: now with fixed module-init-tools please signoff 2.6.37 series for both arches. Signoff x86_64. The following is not related to the kernel itself, but in case when somebody builds a device driver alone, the installation

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.37-4

2011-01-28 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Tobias Powalowski's message of Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:29 +0100: please signoff 2.6.37 series for both arches. signoff x86_64 Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:20 +0100: The kernel26 package lacks a versioned dependency on module-init-tools Thanks,

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.37-4

2011-01-28 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Ionuț Bîru's message of Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:57 +0200: and with this, i rest my case. Cherry picking from testing is wrong and it should be all or nothing approach. I agree in general, but IMHO the kernel is different, I do not see any reason to not run whatever kernel people

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.37-4

2011-01-27 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi Tobias, Excerpts from Tobias Powalowski's message of Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:29 +0100: please signoff 2.6.37 series for both arches. What I'm doing wrong with new kernel installation? Currently I'm running 2.6.37.1, trying to update to 2.6.37.4: WARNING: Can't read module

Re: [arch-general] associations for chromium

2010-11-29 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi Thomas, Excerpts from Thomas Jost's message of Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:10 +0100: Le 29/11/2010 03:26, Sergey Manucharian a écrit : I wonder if somebody could already figure out how to handle file and protocol associations for Chromium. For those who use a DE like KDE/Gnome most probably

[arch-general] associations for chromium

2010-11-28 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi folks, I wonder if somebody could already figure out how to handle file and protocol associations for Chromium. For those who use a DE like KDE/Gnome most probably everything works out of box. There is an article in wiki how to use chromium with no DE [1]. It suggest to use mimeo and

Re: [arch-general] umount usb stick via udev

2010-10-07 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi Benjamin, Excerpts from Benjamin Sambale's message of Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:08 +0200: Am 07.10.2010 17:32, schrieb Thomas Bächler: Am 07.10.2010 17:18, schrieb Benjamin Sambale: I managed to mount my usb stick automatically via udev rules (hal isn't running). However, if I unplug the

Re: [arch-general] FF Browser Tip for Archers who like a darker desktop (DR, you listening?)

2010-08-16 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Filip Filipov's message of Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:08 +0300: -- Forwarded message -- From: Filip Filipov pilif.pi...@googlemail.com Date: Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 18:39 Subject: Re: [arch-general] FF Browser Tip for Archers who like a darker desktop (DR, you listening?)

Re: [arch-general] Kudos to the Arch devs!

2010-06-22 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Gaurish Sharma's message of Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:10 +0530: I would be interested to know your experience of running arch as server os. running I use distros like debian,CentOS etc. till now I have been scared of running arch as server. Please share your experience I'm using

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux

2010-06-22 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Thomas Jost's message of Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:31 +0200: On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:12:30 +0300, Josef Tupag joseftu...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried Arch Linux on their thinkpad? I just want to know how fast it is. I don't like the long boot that is found in Ubuntu and many

Re: [arch-general] b43: wireless issues

2010-06-17 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi Magnus, Excerpts from Magnus Therning's message of Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:22 +0100: It's a broadcom card, using the b43 driver. It connects fine on login, but once I actually use the network I'm disconnected and all attempts to re-connect fail. One person mentioned that things

Re: [arch-general] Label and Format USB Drive

2010-06-16 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Carlos Mennens's message of Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:11 -0400: It appears Arch can't find /dev/sdd1 however I can find it fine when I use the 'fdisk' utility. I don't understand why... You should not fdisk on a partition (like sdd1), only on the whole device e.g. /dev/sdd [r...@tuna

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

2010-06-09 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi David, Excerpts from David C. Rankin's message of Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:16 -0500: Before I add the drive to the heap of drives in my 'dead drive box' are there any other silver bullets I should try to try and resurrect the drive? (Data isn't an issue, it's all backed up :-) I had

[arch-general] 2nd partition for bootable USB flash drive

2010-06-03 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi folks, Of course, it's very convenient to install Archlinux using a bootable USB flash putting the corresponding .iso file in it (e.g. archlinux-2010.05-core-i686.iso). But it's not convenient to keep a separate flash drive for it. The natural solution is to create another partition at the

Re: [arch-general] intel video suspend

2010-05-21 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Nick Stepa's message of Fri, 07 May 2010 08:40 +0300: On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 01:15:53PM -0600, Sergey Manucharian wrote: Excerpts from Isaac Dupree's message of Thu, 06 May 2010 14:32 -0400: On 05/06/10 11:49, Sergey Manucharian wrote: Hi folks, Regularly I

Re: [arch-general] BASH no longer does 'for i in $(ls); do ls $i; done'??

2010-05-18 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Linas's message of Tue, 18 May 2010 22:31 +0200: David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I'm usually quite good at one-liners, but my simple ones no longer work in Arch. Same cli works fine in suse. What have I messed up? To wit: What could keep the simple cli from

[arch-general] intel video suspend

2010-05-06 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi folks, Regularly I put my ThinkPad R61 into suspend twice a day, and everything worked perfectly until 2.6.32 and 2.6.33 kernels. 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, but everything else works

Re: [arch-general] intel video suspend

2010-05-06 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Isaac Dupree's message of Thu, 06 May 2010 14:32 -0400: On 05/06/10 11:49, Sergey Manucharian wrote: Hi folks, Regularly I put my ThinkPad R61 into suspend twice a day, and everything worked perfectly until 2.6.32 and 2.6.33 kernels. Now from time to time (≈ once a week

Re: [arch-general] gmail and mailing list

2010-01-12 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Alexander Duscheleit's message of Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:11 +0100: I don't use GMails web interface, i just pull all my mail from there via IMAP and it's sorted on my local server via sieve/dovecot together with a bunch of other accounts. This feature thus destroys threads for me,

Re: [arch-general] stellarium and x with intel 965

2009-12-24 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from LI Ye's message of Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:34 +0800: It can be temporarily solved by using driconf(in community repository), and disable texture tiling for stellarium. Also look at this http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=87148 Hi LI, Thank you for the information! Indeed

[arch-general] stellarium and x with intel 965

2009-12-20 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi folks, Stellarium won't run properly in my ThinkPad R61 with Intel 965 graphic card. The main window with stars, labels, grids etc. looks fine, but all the dialogs and toolbars' icons are distorted and not readable at all. The screenshot is at [1]. stellarium 0.10.2-3 xorg-server

Re: [arch-general] Borken kernel-2.6.31.6-1.tar.gz ?

2009-11-20 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from DD's message of Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:03 +0100: Le Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:51:22 -0600, Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com a écrit : On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:42 PM, David Dupin dd...@dupnet.org wrote: Hi, It seems that kernel-2.6.31.6-1.tar.gz is broken and can't be

[arch-general] аrch x86_64 and i686 performance comparison

2009-11-11 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi folks, The similar question most probably has been discussed many times, but I really cannot find a clear answer. There are some obvious thinks like 64-bit addressing, but how about math calculations performance? I've set up two identical virtual machines in vbox - one with Arch x86_64 and

Re: [arch-general] arch x86_64 and i686 performance comparison

2009-11-11 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Sven-Hendrik Haase's message of Wednesday 11-Nov-09 05:18pm MST: If you want to make a serious comparison, set up two fresh chroots at least. Better yet, set up two partitions and do the tests using a native kernel as well. I will do that. But the strange think is that I cannot

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

2009-11-11 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Smith Dhumbumroong's message of Thursday 12-Nov-09 10:49am: Better to install both Arch 32-bit and 64-bit on the same machine (dual boot) and run the tests. I've already did it. from my personal experience certain operations, such as video/music encoding, is a _lot_ faster on

Re: [arch-general] arch x86_64 and i686 performance comparison

2009-11-11 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Tom's message of Thursday 12-Nov-09 04:20am: http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/ Thank you for the direction, Tom! I'll give it a try. Sergey

Re: [arch-general] Opinion: What do you think about Lenovo IdeaPad Y450?

2009-09-28 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:31:54 -0300 Guilherme M. Nogueira guilhe...@nirev.org wrote: ... So I was wondering if any of you has one, or has another Lenovo laptop and your opinions about it. I plan on using it with arch only. ... I use 14 ThinkPad R61 (T9300 @ 2.50GHz, 2GB RAM, 160GB 7200rpm

[arch-general] xmonad and java environment

2009-09-25 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi all, I've installed openproj from AUR and met the following issue: the program runs, but the main GUI window is blank (no buttons, menus - nothing), although the dialog windows appear normal. I don't have much experience with java, and tried both jre and openjdk6 - with the same result. Then I

Re: [arch-general] xmonad and java environment

2009-09-25 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:46:25 +0200 Henning Garus henning.ga...@googlemail.com wrote: ... Use openjdk6 or make XMonad lie about its identity: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Frequently_asked_questions#Problems_with_Java_applications.2C_Applet_java_console ... Thank you, Henning and

Re: [arch-general] dd and bash_completion

2009-09-24 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:40:28 +0200 Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Aaron Griffin schrieb: And this appears to be fixed in git http://code.phraktured.net/cgit.cgi/bash-completion/commit/?id=f733e71e1f8d63c072a402346d8162f9c6b63ae2

Re: [arch-general] Change letters of partitions

2009-09-13 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:55:32 +0200 Damjan Georgievski gdam...@gmail.com wrote: ... How do I change home partition /dev/sda2 to /dev/sda3? That's fairly easy but dangerous. With fdisk you first print the partition table, then delete sda2 and sda3, and recreate them with exactly the same

Re: [arch-general] Maximum JFS file (not filesytem) size

2009-09-09 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:10:46 +0200 Guus Snijders gsnijd...@gmail.com wrote: . It feels a bit like the disk (on which the image is stored) is giving a read error, causing dd to stop. Also, is there anything in the kernel messages (dmesg) that gives a clue? . If you suspect that the

Re: [arch-general] Howto adjust font scaling in Arch? All fonts look a bit big and fat?

2009-08-24 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:43:31 -0500 David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Listmates, I'm looking for a way to adjust the font size scaling (no not the control center font size) so all the fonts in my kde4 desktop look right. Basically, in Arch kde4 on my laptop, all

Re: [arch-general] ext3 driver for windows

2009-07-30 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:26:29 +0200 Rene Rasmussen archli...@paranoidix.dk wrote: ... I found the following to choose from: Ext2 IFS and Ext2 FSD How is the stability. Did you have any trouble getting it to work? I use Ext2Fsd for long time (in read-only mode), it's pretty stable, I never

Re: [arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?

2009-07-26 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:34:35 -0400 Alexander Lam lambchop...@gmail.com wrote: ... A - The disk that already has an installation but is smaller B - The disk that that you want to put the installation on if you dd A onto B, B will get the partition structure from A and appear smaller.

Re: [arch-general] [OT] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kbd-1.15-2

2009-07-24 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:01:15 +0300 Roman Kyrylych roman.kyryl...@gmail.com wrote: a sign == знак a signature == підпис to sign == підписувати that's why translation was incorrect sign off is even harder :-P (as there's no word-to-word translation of (I) sign off (this) to my language, but

Re: [arch-general] PCI modems

2009-07-23 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:50:19 +0200 RedShift redsh...@pandora.be wrote: ... I don't think using second hand modems is a good idea, I really need something I can buy in a store... ... http://www.wiredparadise.net/46xvp.html Amazing - the price is $30, but the shipping to Europe is $65...

Re: [arch-general] portable player, usb plugging/mounting problems

2009-06-22 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:58:28 -0300 Guilherme M. Nogueira g.maionogue...@gmail.com wrote: . I have a Sansa e200 portable media player and I'm having problems mounting it. It used to work, but I can't recall when (I have been listening to the same stuff for over 4 months now). I'm using

Re: [arch-general] Openbox - great lightweight desktop, similar to icewm, but better in several regards

2009-06-10 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:59:05 +0200 Johannes Held m...@hehejo.de wrote: . Paste something like this into you ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml and be shure to have gmrun installed. keybind key=A-F2 action name=Execute executegmrun/execute /action /keybind . Another good program is

[arch-general] Option XkbLayout doesn't work?

2009-05-13 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi folks, It looks like the setting of keyboards layouts in xorg.conf doesn't work anymore, or I'm missing something? --8-- Section InputDevice . Option XkbRules xorg Option XkbModel evdev Option XkbLayout us,ru,am Option

Re: [arch-general] Option XkbLayout doesn't work?

2009-05-13 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Wed, 13 May 2009 14:46:29 -0300 Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: . There's some time now that X Window has a hotplugging feature. You can disable it, probably is what you want. See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_input_hotplugging for more information.

Re: [arch-general] thinkpad t61 and not able to adjust brightness

2009-04-17 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:47:38 -0400 Adam Stokes adam.sto...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the information, I did add those keycodes to my .Xmodmap with no change unfortunately. I also installed the acpi/acpid packages but I haven't actually rebooted yet since it seems that acpid will not run due

Re: [arch-general] unable to associate wlan0 during network start

2009-04-17 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:22:31 -0400 Adam Stokes adam.sto...@gmail.com wrote: /etc/rc.d/network start fails with Could not associate wlan0 - try increasing WIRELESS_TIMEOUT and check network is WEP or has no security. However, running dhcpcd wlan0 when system is up works. I dont use wep but

Re: [arch-general] unable to associate wlan0 during network start

2009-04-17 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:57:48 -0400 David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.net wrote: +1 on the netcfg recommendation. It works pretty flawlessly for me. I don't use it daily, as I prefer a GUI solution like knetworkmanager for desktop use, but I still use it frequently - i.e., when

Re: [arch-general] thinkpad t61 and not able to adjust brightness

2009-04-16 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:13:15 -0400 Adam Stokes adam.sto...@gmail.com wrote: So pressing the fn home/end for brightness alters : /proc/acpi/video/VID/LCD0/brightness doing an: echo '100' /proc/acpi/video/VID/LCD0/brightness My .config for the kernel is set to:

[arch-general] synaptics edge scrolling

2009-04-16 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi, With the current xorg-server 1.6.1-1 the vertical scrolling using the edge of touchpad is almost unusable since it's too fast now. It's not possible to adjust it with both gsynaptics and 'Option HorizScrollDelta' in the xorg.conf... Thanks for ideas. My computer is ThinkPad R61. Cheers,

Re: [arch-general] [solved] synaptics edge scrolling

2009-04-16 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:03:04 -0600 Sergey Manucharian serg...@rmico.com wrote: Hi, With the current xorg-server 1.6.1-1 the vertical scrolling using the edge of touchpad is almost unusable since it's too fast now. It's not possible to adjust it with both gsynaptics and 'Option

Re: [arch-general] latest xorg- significant slowdown

2009-04-13 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:24:58 -0700 (PDT) Jonathan Brown jbs...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all Upon updating to the latest xorg/nvidia (Xfce), and rebooting, X seems to take about 4 times as long to start, and programs seem to take about 2-3 times as long to start up. Anyone else having similar

Re: [arch-general] Surviving without X

2009-03-30 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:29:46 +0900 Juan Diego juantas...@gmail.com wrote: mplayer also has a fb output plugin mplayer does good job with -vo aa or -vo caca, personally I prefer aa ;)

[arch-general] smbd cannot be killed

2009-03-20 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi folks, I've posted a message about a samba issue I'm experiencing on the samba community forum. The issue itself is not relevant to this list, but the bottom line is that I cannot restart samba - several instances of smbd continue running and even kill -9 smbd doesn't help... I have to

Re: [arch-general] DST and suspend

2009-03-11 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:41:15 +0100 Jan de Groot j...@jgc.homeip.net wrote: I guess the hardware clock isn't saved when doing suspend or hibernate. When the system boots up, the clock is read from hardware, resulting in your timeshift. This is only an issue when your system time is stored in

[arch-general] DST and suspend

2009-03-10 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi folks, I wonder if anybody else is experiencing such a problem. Here in USA the Daylight Saving time started from the last Sunday, and my box has switched the clock properly. But then I found that every time when I suspend my ThinkPad R61 and bring it back to life the clock is switched back to

Re: [arch-general] DST and suspend

2009-03-10 Thread Sergey Manucharian
2009/3/10 Sergey Manucharian serg...@rmico.com Hi folks, I wonder if anybody else is experiencing such a problem. Here in USA the Daylight Saving time started from the last Sunday, and my box has switched the clock properly. But then I found that every time when I suspend my

Re: [arch-general] how to mount external hdd

2009-02-18 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:03:08 +0100 hollun...@gmx.at wrote: .. An external drive can be rather reliably identified and always mounted at the same place using udev. This is somewhat problematic on arch linux tough. For some reason the devices seem not to be created before mount runs

Re: [arch-general] how to mount external hdd

2009-02-18 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:31:13 -0300 Denis Alessandro Altoe Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: .. If it is always connected, I would put a line on /etc/fstab so it is mounted as any other ordinary partition. For some reason this does not work for me - when I restart the

Re: [arch-general] vnc on display:0

2008-12-30 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:13:35 +0530 sagar n sagar.1...@gmail.com wrote: So display:0 connection is crucial. I looked at nomachine, but I dont think it has :0 connection. As of now, I am trying to speed up x11vnc by looking at its various options. Since it polls, I am not sure if I can

Re: [arch-general] vnc on display:0

2008-12-28 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:23:46 +0530 sagar n sagar.1...@gmail.com wrote: ... I want to connect to display:0 of a headless box remotely. If it's PHYSICALLY headless, what is the reason to use namely :0 anyway? In any case, is there an alternative way to connect to display:0 remotely? Personally I

[arch-general] Arch on VIA EPIA Pico?

2008-11-06 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi folks, Does anybody have an experience installing Arch on VIA EPIA Pico-series boards? Are there known issues? Thanks! Sergey.

[arch-general] nxserver issue

2008-11-05 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi folks, After the yesterday server's system update I cannot connect to that server anymore using nxclient. After the dialog box shows: Establish the display connection a window with !m logo appears for a second and disappears without any message. I looked into files at the server side:

Re: [arch-general] Sunplus (Philips) webcam problem

2008-10-26 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:40:45 +0100 Thomas Bächler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... What do you mean be works incorrectly? The new gspca drivers only support v4l2 and don't do conversion in the driver. Well, indeed with v4l driver the mplayer shows a messed image with swapped lines and weird colors,

Re: [arch-general] Sunplus (Philips) webcam problem

2008-10-26 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:14:36 +0100 Thomas Bächler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Should be in extra now. Version 0.5.2 should hit the mirrors soon. I think it even fixes a bug with your camera, not sure. Great! Works fine - tested with mplayer and skype. Thanks, Thomas! Cheers, Sergey

[arch-general] Sunplus (Philips) webcam problem

2008-10-25 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hello, After the recent system update my webcam: 04fc:0561 Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd Flexcam 100 stopped working properly. The driver gspca_spca561 is loaded automatically, but works incorrectly, when trying to use gspca_sunplus the camera is not recognized. Unfortunately I did not pay

Re: [arch-general] bftp denyhosts

2008-10-13 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:04:54 + Jon Kristian Nilsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is ther any reason you are using bftp, instead of for example sftp? Actually there is no specific reasons, it was installed 2 years ago, and now services a whole bunch of users with complex chroot directories

[arch-general] bftp denyhosts

2008-10-12 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi folks, I run the bftp server, and since sometimes bad boys try to brake in scanning usernames/passwords I also run denyhosts daemon. It puts a suspicious IP address into /etc/hosts.deny after 5 attempts to login using unexciting username and so on. Today I've noticed that every few second

[arch-general] no local login prompt

2008-08-19 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi folks, After today's system update of my P4 machine I cannot get the login prompt to the local terminal. Initscripts run, I see a whole bunch of [DONE]s and that's it - the line with the last (from rc.conf) daemon on the bottom of screen and nothing happens. I can login via ssh with no

Re: [arch-general] Dropping ipw3945 from core

2008-03-31 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:18:27 +0200 Thomas Bächler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After I discovered that my problems with the new Intel driver where related to dhclient and fixed the bug, I am now successfully using iwl3945 on my machine. It seems to be working perfectly, so I am considering

Re: [arch-general] Dropping ipw3945 from core

2008-03-31 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:17:45 +0200 Thomas Bächler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Schaefer schrieb: Sergey Manucharian wrote: Recently I was installing Archlinux on a notebook and the network was working fine with iwl3945 during the installation, but after reboot it couldn't find