Re: [arch-general] Personal note
Baho: it's sad to see you leave pal but in the future try to not let things bring you down so easily, the world is full of suckers and the sooner you learn to live with that the better. Tom: I will miss your answers, they were often very useful and make help understand a bit more the inner workings of Arch and GNU/Linux in general. As proposed above I too am in favor of a new arch-users-technical list with little to no tolerance at all to flaming, ranting and general dick size wars, +1 to it. As for this list and if most of the devs and savvy guys are already unsubscribed it should be observed how it behaves in next few days or weeks and if it becomes irrelevant _close_ it. The best thing about this list was it's superior technical discussions over the forums but should arch-general become watered I don't see a real need to keep it running... Yes, I know there are some people that follows mailing lists and never put a step on the forums but hey, the forum aren't too ackward if you're subscribed to the different threads. Regards, Martin -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] Update on Trinity - 2 versions available R14 and 3.5.13-sru
On 14 August 2012 12:52, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.comwrote: On 08/05/2012 11:03 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: All, There have been a few noteworthy developments with the Trinity project for Arch. There will be essentially 2 versions available. The primary focus of the project is currently on TDE 14.0.0 (R14) which is TQt3 based and due to executable renaming, it can be installed along side kde4 without conflict. As R14 development went forward, new updates have been continually backported to the stable 3.5.13 branch of the GIT tree. This has resulted in a completely updated branch of TDE 3.5.13 code which is still Qt3 based and retains all backwards compatibility with KDE 3.5.10. This TDE branch is referred to as (3.5.13-sru). TDE has been updated for cups = 1.6 and ffmpeg 0.11. Server space has been graciously obtained from Axilleas Pi. Final builds of the 3.5.13-sru binaries are underway. R14 builds will start thereafter. I will upload binaries and provide a link to the repo within the next couple of days (once I figure out the upload process - and have time to test a couple of tdm (kdm) changes to kdmrc generation ) I'll provide install notes at that time. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Excellent, thank you. -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] old rc.sysinit?
On 14 August 2012 17:08, Jorge Almeida jjalme...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to know how Arch used to deal with some init stuff, like configuring virtual consoles, initializing random seed, etc. Is there some way to retrieve older versions of /etc/rc.sysinit? TIA Jorge Almeida Which versions of rc.sysinit are you looking for? -- -msx
[arch-general] [System update] dhcpcd: /usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpcd@.service exists in filesystem
~# pacman -Syu ... ... (6/6) checking package integrity [---] 100% (6/6) loading package files [---] 100% (6/6) checking for file conflicts [---] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) dhcpcd: /usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpcd@.service exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. ~ # I presume in this case is safe to -f, I can rename the conflicting package too, but I would like to know how's the right way to proceed here. Thanks! -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] [System update] dhcpcd: /usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpcd@.service exists in filesystem
On 14 August 2012 18:44, Daniel Wallace daniel.wall...@gatech.edu wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 02:32:33PM -0700, pants wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:24:55PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: Either you are using [testing] without [community-testing], or this is a packaging bug. Either way, don't use --force. I have never used a testing repository, and I am getting the same error. The conflict is with systemd-arch-units-20120704-1. pants. Community takes longer to sync, the 20120704-2 should take care of it -- Daniel Wallace Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred) Georgia Institute of Technology Will wait then, thank you guys for the explanations! -- -msx
[arch-general] [KDE - Can't make Akonadi server / Nepomuk service run]
Ok, I know a lot of you cynics would say: it's fine, why would do you want Nepomuk running anyways!? The truth is my laptop HD went dead some days ago so I had to restore my system from a 2-weeks old backup; I usually use fsarchiver to backup root partition and 7z to compress ~/.kde4 so this way I'm covered up about these kind of things. So after restoring my system and home folder I did a full upgrade (nearly a gigabyte of downloads) and while most things seems to work well I found that Nepomuk isn't running, when I try to start it manually I have this error message: Failed to start the desktop search service (Nepomuk). The settings have been saved and will be used the next time the server is started. Going back to the wiki I did my homework re-configuring Akonadi but so far I can't make Nepomuk run. This is what I have: ~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc [%General] Driver=QMYSQL [QMYSQL] Name=akonadi Host=localhost ServerPath=/usr/bin/mysqld StartServer=true User=akonadiuser Password=akonadiuser Options=UNIX_SOCKET=/home/msx/.local/share/akonadi/socket-heybeavis/mysql.socket [Debug] Tracer=null The database is already created and configured: mysql show databases; ++ | Database | ++ | information_schema | | akonadi | mysql | owncloud | performance_schema | ++ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec) and the ~/.config/akonadi/mysql-local.conf is in place: ~ $ cat ~/.config/akonadi/mysql-local.conf # # Global Akonadi MySQL server settings, # These settings can be adjusted using $HOME/.config/akonadi/mysql-local.conf # # Based on advice by Kris Köhntopp k...@mysql.com # [mysqld] # strict query parsing/interpretation # TODO: make Akonadi work with those settings enabled # sql_mode=strict_trans_tables,strict_all_tables,strict_error_for_division_by_zero,no_auto_create_user,no_auto_value_on_zero,no_engine_substitution,no_zero_date,no_zero_in_date,only_full_group_by,pipes_as_concat sql_mode=strict_trans_tables # DEBUGGING: # log all queries, useful for debugging but generates an enormous amount of data # log=mysql.full # log queries slower than n seconds, log file name relative to datadir (for debugging only) # log_slow_queries=mysql.slow # long_query_time=1 # log queries not using indices, debug only, disable for production use # log_queries_not_using_indexes=1 # # mesure database size and adjust innodb_buffer_pool_size # SELECT sum(data_length) as bla, sum(index_length) as blub FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema not in (mysql, information_schema); # NOTES: # Keep Innob_log_waits and keep Innodb_buffer_pool_wait_free small (see show global status like inno%, show global variables) #expire_logs_days=3 #sync_bin_log=0 # Use UTF-8 encoding for tables character_set_server=utf8 collation_server=utf8_general_ci # use InnoDB for transactions and better crash recovery default_storage_engine=innodb # memory pool InnoDB uses to store data dictionary information and other internal data structures (default:1M) innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=1M # memory buffer InnoDB uses to cache data and indexes of its tables (default:128M) # Larger values means less I/O innodb_buffer_pool_size=80M # Create a .ibd file for each table (default:0) innodb_file_per_table=1 # Write out the log buffer to the log file at each commit (default:1) innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=2 # Buffer size used to write to the log files on disk (default:1M for builtin, 8M for plugin) # larger values means less I/O innodb_log_buffer_size=1M # Size of each log file in a log group (default:5M) larger means less I/O but more time for recovery. innodb_log_file_size=64M # # error log file name, relative to datadir (default:hostname.err) log_error=mysql.err # print warnings and connection errors (default:1) log_warnings=2 # Convert table named to lowercase lower_case_table_names=1 # Maximum size of one packet or any generated/intermediate string. (default:1M) max_allowed_packet=32M # Maximum simultaneous connections allowed (default:100) max_connections=256 # The two options below make no sense with prepared statements and/or transactions # (make sense when having the same query multiple times) # Memory allocated for caching query results (default:0 (disabled)) query_cache_size=0 # Do not cache results (default:1) query_cache_type=0 # Do not use the privileges mechanisms skip_grant_tables # Do not listen for TCP/IP connections at all skip_networking # The number of open tables for all threads. (default:64) table_cache=200 # How many threads the server should cache for reuse (default:0) thread_cache_size=3 # wait 365d before dropping the DB connection (default:8h) wait_timeout=31536000 [client] default-character-set=utf8 Now, when I do restart Akonadi server I got: ~ $ akonadictl restart Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) search paths: (/usr/local/bin, /usr/bin, /bin, /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin, /sbin,
Re: [arch-general] New install media 2012.08.04 uses ZSH, if I may ask, why?
On 6 August 2012 00:21, David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: That'd get my vote, but I'd be amazed if any distribution ever did this. Doesn't zsh take more--a lot more--memory? David, I don't think in modern systems this could be of any real issue, choosing, for instance, sh over zsh because memory consumption is like deactivating unused ttys in /etc/inittab to save memory: nonsense. But in the case you happen to install Arch in a very resource-constrained machine you can always install Bash and then switch to it. I myself am a bash guy; while other fancy shells can add extra features I find bash sports everything I need for my daily console work. I really don't care about zsh shipped as default shell as long as zsh is full bash-compliance - but AFAIK zsh have some minor incompatibilities with bash that may prevent it from being the shell standard because the vast majority of scripts are crafted using Bash, a widespread de-facto standard for so long time. -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] New install media 2012.08.04 uses ZSH, if I may ask, why?
On 6 August 2012 01:16, David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: Indeed--those incompatibilities are precisely what I like about zsh. ;-) You mean the features associated to them, I guess! -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.
On 26 July 2012 16:08, Jeremiah Dodds jeremiah.do...@gmail.com wrote: In fact, at some point you realize that while there are a lot of beautiful and clean systems, a lot of our entire computing stack is ugly hacks on top of ugly And we get used to our particular ugly hack and then complain like hell when someone wants to take that ugly hack away and replace it by an unknown (and possibly/probably ugly as well) hack. Lol, totally true guys, let's assume it: we all like ugly hacks and do dirty things =D -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] How do you extract version from pacman?
On 26 July 2012 06:37, Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de wrote: Morris lor...@gmail.com on Thu, 2012/07/26 11:24: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: Or the same with cut: $ pacman -Q virtualbox | cut -d' ' -f2 4.1.18-4 Getting the complete package information is not required. - I was just to suggest this! Anyway, this diversity and broad way to achieve the same goal is what makes Unix-like OSes so pretty: all roads leads to Rome ^_^ -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users
May be this is a silly question but: will there be a general announcement when systemd became officially adopted? As T. G. said in the Dev list: If a move should happen, I suggest waiting a bit longer until more unit files have been added to our various packages. And to allow some more time to see if problems crop up. I'm as a final user would like to make the leap ony after systemd is already adopted as the new AL official init manager. Kind regards, Martin -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] [Bulk] Re: My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.
Guys, relax, we are all in the same wagon, it's a nonsense to make anything personal nor to demonstrate who has the bigger dick, fuck off all that shit. As some _DEVS_ had actually stated, let's discuss everything from a TECHNICAL point of view, arguing and ranting because personal dislikes of proposed new technology or procedures should not have a place here, there is a special section in our forums for that and even if you prefer ML you can create a new thread for your rants. Folks, we are suppose to be a community of geeks/nerds/hobbyst whatever else who happens to like IT, who happens to like and in many cases work with GNU/Linux and similar technologies AND -most important- who happens to fucking like Arch Linux because of every single other distro out there Arch is the only one that rocks our boat. So try to be constructive and if someone says something that upsets you please choose your words with care and re-read two or three times your emails before pushing Send because there's no way back afterwards. Let's act like adults (we're all grown ups here), not selfish idiots. Cheers, archers! -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] How do I should install and configure arch linux
Hi, I'm in a hurry to work so I will try to be the most clear but succint possible, forgive any typo then :) [...]So if I do not have installation guide previously printed on paper, I just become consused what to do next.[...] But for the present I would like at least to have installation guide included in installation iso (with a note where this guide resides) in order to switch to it during installation.[...] +1 I second that and I already asked for the very same guide to be included in the ISO, may be one will be included in the _next_ ISO - if I understand right, there will be a new ISO release every month. Did you chek if links or elinks (or w3m or a similar text web-browser) is available? I didn't tried yet the new ISO but elinks was shipped in the last images so it's a breeze to connect to our wiki and check the install guide - in this case the AIS wiki. Regarding your last question -and since I've been very busy these days- I didn't tried systemd either, this is a pending course for me, but for you to configure your network you can use netcfg[0], Arch's shiny network manager first introduced few months ago; you will find examples of wired and wifi connections in /etc/network.d [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg See you around. -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.
What exactly is wrong with ini files and/or registry? Perhaps it is your misunderstanding... Oh please, if you ever dealt with windows registry then you know it's a totally disfunctional way to keep record of anything. Over time it gets oversized, filled with crap, slow and totally impractical, in one word: bloated, and please, while windows may implement one or two good ideas the underlying infraestructure is as much messy as is it's registry. -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] vboxbuild: command not found
Somewhere on a mailing list was announced by a maintainer, that vboxbuild would be replaced by the use of dkms. But I can't recall completely where this was mentioned. Here!: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2012-July/028477.html -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] vboxbuild: command not found
Oh well! -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.
On 22 July 2012 13:41, Damjan gdam...@gmail.com wrote: Also, by splitting it in different files you make it more robust. You don't want to bork your network setup just because you were editing your locale and forgot to close a quote. @Damjan: this isn't completely true because if the config file parser is well coded it just can ignore the faulty locale line while correctly parsing everything else, that's what I do when I need to parse a file: if a line has a typo or a value is out of range or plain wrong I make the parser show a warning message and keep parsing the config file :) My 2 cents regarding rc.conf (as a 2-years Arch fan): Seems I've been out of sync lately because I was totally unaware about this grand change. First of all I want to say I'm admitedly in love with Arch (as strange as it sounds, being in love with software): for a lazy guy like me Arch is both easy and simple, in fact easier and simpler than any other GNU/Linux distro out there (may be with the only exception of Slackware). It has a clean file layout, the packaging system is one of the best out there -if not the best- and it's easy to see The Arch Way is implemented system wide. One of the great things I specially love about Arch is /etc/rc.conf and it's whole sysconfig scheme: it's plain *awesome* to have init configuration centralized in one slim file instead scattered through god-may-know where; /etc/rc.conf is almost *perfect* specially if I compare it with SysV Init cumbersome scheme, with plenty of directories and S and K files, come on, that really sucks. But as things change and as systemd is becoming a de-facto on GNU/Linux distros, and there's nothing that can be done to keep the awesome rc.conf from being splitted, I vote for EMBRACE THE CHANGE AS SOON AS WE CAN. If rc.conf has it's days counted, then don't delay what must be done: Arch is bleeding edge so let's honour it. While I don't like the idea of losing rc.conf and I know I will miss the 'good old days' I don't want to delay a change I know it's unavoidable :'( Since I first met Arch Linux and since I first read The Arch Way I instantly knew this was the distro I was looking for since so much time, it was already packed with nothing else than awesomeness. Because that I strongly believe devs and TUs and everyone else who contribute to the distro development knows what's the best way to keep up with the The Arch Way and to keep Arch Linux a simple, minimalist, clean, easy and lightweight GNU/Linux distribution. Cheers =) -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] Roadmap for user-intervention upgrades [was: Still Glibc problems]
The problem is not Arch is bleeding edge nor this deep change from /lib to /usr/lib, the problem is that _people don't read_: everything was *clearly* explained in the website's frontpage news and in the wiki. Here's what the people at Project Zomboid had to do to ensure it's customers READ a notice: http://projectzomboid.com/blog/index.php/buy-our-games/ Again: people don't read, screw up their system and then blame the change... :P -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] my Arch box randomly becomes irresponsible
@Not To Miss If you are using GRUB Legacy (the one that you can choose when installing a fresh Arch) all you have to do to add a parameter to the kernel is to edit /boot/grub/menu.cfg and add it to the kernel line. For example, this is a typical section of Arch's GRUB Legacy fresh menu.cfg: # (0) Arch Linux title Arch Linux root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda2 ro initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img lock then you add clocksource=HPET to the kernel line this way: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda2 ro clocksource=HPET (ro is just another kernel parameter that means read-only) If you're using GRUB2 it's a whole different story. Since GRUB2 is a completely different boot-loader, redesigned from scratch to meet current cumputing requeriments, you first need to a edit /etc/default/grub file and add clocksource=HPET to the kernel line and the generate a new /boot/grub/grub.cfg file as explained in the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB2 Regarding your video issue, I remember time back I too had a similar problem with a gigabyte-based computer (as pointed by Myra) running GNOME 2.32; what I can't remember if I used xset or vbetool to force turn on display and temporarily workaround the issue - actually may be both depending if I did turn on the monitor from an X console or from a tty. Anyway, both tools are in our repos so you can install them and try luck. @ PGD: [...] and brings to mind pictures of your computer spending all your money, running an anonymous proxy without asking you, or maybe sending prank e-mails to your friends. Maybe you're dealing with a teenage computer? :p Lol x'D, I almost died with brings to mind pictures of your computer spending all your money These are the kind of grammatical errors that happens to me too despite I try to speak a descent english ^_^ (and the type of corrections I thanks!) -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] Installing without using AIF?
That's a good point. Gentoo for example has a good in-depth explanation of all the steps involved in an installation. Maybe some inspiration can be taken from there. Hi all. While indeed Gentoo have a detailed step-by-step guide to install the system I also find it somewhat boring and burdensome, but the really important thing here is that they have the install guide that way because Gentoo is a little more tedious to install when compared with Arch's simplicity - no flame here, just the facts. So far what I saw at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Install_Scripts is really neat! I must say I did not install any Arch that way yet, but it seems trivial to do that following wiki's instructions and -most important- the possibility to install the system by chrooting it -so you can installing everything else before the first boot- just rocks. On the other hand I don't think this can drive any new user away more than if we continue using the traditional AIF procedure because, and let's be real on this, the average 'final' user is even affraid of using something like AIF (I hear that all the time); but on the contrary, more technical people who wants to dive into GNU/Linux and learn about Arch will have no problem to follow simple instructions to install their system. What I do expect to see -actually I really would like to see- in the installation media are both the Arch Install Scripts wiki article plus the Beginner's Guide -- but also the Unofficial Beginner's Guide would be a welcome bonus. Cheers! -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] /lib to /usr/lib : custom kernel
On 14 July 2012 19:13, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:18 PM, set nm...@netcourrier.com wrote: I updated one machine following instructions on archlinux.org and the process was flawless. That machine was running the Arch kernel. I dare not do it on another machine running a custom kernel. Will a system update break the setup because /lib/modules contains a kernel not managed by pacman ? If so, how to proceed ? Should the custom kernel be removed first ? If the kernel was installed with pacman, then change the PKGBUILD to install it into /usr/lib and rebuild the package. If you installed directly into /lib/modules, that means that no package owns the modules, so you can just move them manually to /usr/lib/modules and everything will be ok (this is what I did on my machine with a custom kernel). -t I usually run Liquorix on my notebook so to ensure a smooth upgrade I did boot into Arch's stock kernel, removed linux-lqx, did the upgrade and finally installed Liquorix again. If you use a non-stock kernels, I'm sure the package aur/modprobed_db will save you a _lot_ of time while compiling your kernel - and also gain some space. -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] Trinity - post usrlib move - builds fine!
Me too, I was waiting for this to try Trinity on a single-core Pentium 4 / 1.25gb RAM :) -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] Can't suspend or hibernate
On 29 June 2012 08:48, Sébastien le Preste de Vauban ulpianoso...@gmail.com wrote: I can suspend and hibernate but my computer can't boot after a /sudo pm-hibernate/. Not sure why, anyway If I unplug it from the power source for a couple of seconds, then it will boot again almost normally (sometimes I get a message like /cpu frequency error/ from the bios, strangely nothing seems wrong when looking at the bios settings). Maybe the hibernating process sets the computer in some bad state. Mmm, I've seen every kind of weird behaviour with ATX power supplies, please try this: just for testing purposes switch the power supply for another one -either a used one or a new one, it doesn't matter- and try to reproduce the glitch. The idea behind this is sometimes ATX power supplies 'go dumb' and you need to fully discharge them in order to reset them (sort of) - that's why it works right when you unplug it. -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server
Hi guys, may be you'll find ArchServer an interesting project, you'll find more here: www.archserver.org. The idea behind this project is to create a rock-solid, server-oriented Arch flavor ready for mass deployment with all the pros we love about Arch -easy to maintain, lightweight, ultra-stable, a joy to use, you know, The Arch Way- plus a well tested repositories to ensure no unexpected surprises (!) and the least manual intervention possible while remaining %100 Arch-compatible. While the project have been around for quite some time, the lack of people involved together with real-life matters of it's lead devs and mantainers made Arch Server slide into an induced sleep for some time... until now. In my last email exchange with Daniel (aka ShadowBranch, current AS maintainer), about a month ago, he made clear it's matter of time until the project is up and fully running again - undoubtedly he is not having the necessary spare time to setup everything again and relaunch the project. So if you think ArchServer have any worthiness or is something interesting -personally I would _love_ to have a specific server-flavor of Arch- head on to the ML section and subscribe yourselves so you don't miss the grand reopening. P.S.: I know this may sound like a cheap NTM[0]/sell speach but it's not! I'm just a fan of the idea of having a server edition of AL ready to deploy and forgot about it because Arch rocks and I don't really want to work with any other distros that isn't Arch-centric; also I find inefficient to have to learn the ways of other distros -which I don't like how they do things- in order to work with a production server. For now I set up my Arch Linux server boxes by hand as the next archer does, but I'm sure it would be plain awesome to have an Arch branch specifically fitted for the server role, it could save me countless hours on deployment, management, testing, servicing, etc., and I'm sure it can do the same for all the rest of the archers :) [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_marketing Cheers!
Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server
Have you considered flavours like mail, web. A recent thread showed atleast one person who probably would have liked an out of the box web arch? Sorry Kevin, I don't follow you. -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] KDE Dolphin crashes on click
Dare I say it...I think this is fixed now. I've re-enabled tooltips and haven't got Dolphin to crash so far. Paul I can confirm that (fuck yeah!). -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update
[OT] @Victor: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Arch? What a combination! [/OT]
Re: [arch-general] Powertop tunables and performance + Other optimizations
On 31 May 2012 10:31, Sergi Pons Freixes sachiel2...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/5/31 Martin Cigorraga m...@archlinux.us: From my subjective own experience, it don't, the only thing I don't activate when my laptop is plugged is the mouse switch since it instructs the system to turnoff the USB port whenever there's no activity on it and that can be very annoying, believe me xD I've been playing interactively with the tunables, and completely agree about how annoying is the auto suspend for the USB mouse :P. I'll probably make all the others permanent. Combining Powertop 2 with Liquorix kernel, Ulatencyd, e4rat, preload and some more fancy tweakes here and there -sysctl.conf, grub kernel line, etc.- I have a feather-light, lightspeed KDE SC full suite with every eye candy effect on and the best part is my notebook -Pavilion dv7-4287cl- reminds _cool_ all the time. Sounds really nice. I've never heard about the kernel and software you mention, and after reading about them it sounds really interesting. Do you have any reference (website/blog/wiki/whatever) with these optimizations, apart from the Arch Wiki? Sorry for the delay amigo català, this is what I do to squeeze the most of my system -meaning 'system' the combination of hardware and software-, depending on your own hardware and software choices/combination it may or may not help you at all or even worst, leave your system unusable... with that in mind check out my following tweaks: 1. HW SPECS: My laptop is a Pavilion dv7-4287cl, a first-gen i5 (Quad, 2,66mhz), 8gbRAM, 720hd5400rpm, hybrid video system sporting an ATi Radeon HD 5600 series. ~ $ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port (rev 02) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Madison [Radeon HD 5000M Series] (rev ff) 01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5600 Series] (rev ff) 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03) 7f:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02) 7f:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02) 7f:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02) 7f:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02) 7f:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02) 7f:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02) Make sure to check out the microcode kmod! (actually in [extra]) 2. KERNEL As you note this laptop runs nearly enterily Intel chipset so if your PC(s) runs AMD take for sure much of the kernel line tweaks will not work since their meant for Intel hardware. I have several entries in my GRUB but the one I boot most is this following: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux-lqx root=/dev/sda2 ro rootfstype=ext4 hpet=force i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 pcie_aspm=force irqpoll i915.lvds_downclock=1 radeon.pcie_gen2=1 i915.semaphores=1 elevator=bfs init=/usr/sbin/e4rat-preload-lite resume=/dev/sda2 acpi_backlight=vendor rootfstype=ext4 : I forget to remove it, actually it isn't needed. hpet=force i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1 i915.semaphores=1 : these tweaks are meant for Intel chipset to preserve battery life - I can't notice any performance hit with them on. pcie_aspm=force : makes sure it's activated. radeon.pcie_gen2=1 : boosts F/LOSS radeon module - only for ATi RadeonHD videocards elevator=bfs : makes sure
Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums
Personally, I prefer mailing lists, So do I. Mailing list is, in my VERY humble opinion, the place where you find higher quality discussion than on web forums. But, that's just my opinion. +1 I tend to use ML to catch up the news -I'm subscribed to all MLs- and ask for help while in contrast I wander the forums trying to answer others posts and help fellow archers. I know it sounds weird but it's the *natural way* for me, lol ^_^ -- -msx
Re: [arch-general] KDE Dolphin crashes on click
I have Strigi disabled and yet until yesterday's night I was receiving segfaults when clicking on any type of fire; finally after trial and error an before going insane and start ripping my hair out, I found that the crash is connected with the Enable tooltip option, disable it and you shouldn't have any more Dolphin crashes. If you confirm this I file a bug in our bugtracker and in KDE's tracker if relevant. On Jun 11, 2012 8:05 AM, Łukasz Redynk lukas.red...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Yes, I've got it too. There's thread on forum about this error: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=142964 It seems there's problem with nepomuk/strigi, workaround for that is disbaling semantic desktop is System Settings and relogin to the kde. --- Pozdrawiam Łukasz Redynk W dniu 11.06.2012 12:49, Paul Gideon Dann pisze: Hello all, I'm having some trouble with Dolphin. Clicking or right-clicking on files causes a SIGSEGV with the following backtrace: #0 0x74e5c59c in KSycocaDict::find_string(QString const) const () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.5 #1 0x74dc7fc8 in KMimeTypeTrader::preferredService(QString const, QString const) () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.5 #2 0x758fc2ac in KRun::runUrl(KUrl const, QString const, QWidget*, bool, bool, QString const, QByteArray const) () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.5 #3 0x758fc977 in KRun::foundMimeType(QString const) () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.5 #4 0x758f2412 in KRun::mimeTypeDetermined(QString const) () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.5 #5 0x758faff8 in KRun::init() () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.5 #6 0x758f4290 in KRun::slotTimeout() () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.5 #7 0x74923dcf in QMetaObject::activate(QObject*, QMetaObject const*, int, void**) () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 #8 0x749230dc in QObject::event(QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 #9 0x73a44f7c in QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #10 0x73a493fa in QApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #11 0x75376c66 in KApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.5 #12 0x7490e8ee in QCoreApplication::notifyInternal(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 The same thing occasionally happens on hover. I've tried running kbuildsycoca4 on the offchance something got corrupted, but it didn't help. This seems to be a separate issue from the herqq issue. Anyone else getting this? Paul
Re: [arch-general] NAS drive revisited
Hi Nikolic, If you don't plan to share your NAS with (nasty and mediocre) Windows systems you should mount it as a NFS4 share, I use it to access my download and media home servers from various PCs in my home and it's quite a smooth experience.
