[arch-general] kde4 tip - quicklaunch in your panel -- convenience at your fingertips!

2009-10-22 Thread David C. Rankin
think you will find the convenience of the desktop improves quite a bit. Good luck ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] enlightenment e-svn (e17) segfaults with standard setup, OK with minimalist (battery module)

2009-10-22 Thread David C. Rankin
and mission operations. I still have a few friends there that send me pictures when the get some good one... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] pkgbuild of tightvnc doesn't produce and installable package?

2009-10-23 Thread David C. Rankin
On Thursday 22 October 2009 03:33:43 am Allan McRae wrote: You are trying to install the source code and not the package. Look for a file ending in -pkg.tar.gz. Allan (Oh Brother.) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961

Re: [arch-general] kwrite: error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 ??

2009-10-23 Thread David C. Rankin
up my pacman.conf ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

[arch-general] Rock-n-roll Compiz 8.4 is in the repositories.

2009-10-23 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, Just updated and noticed compiz 8.4 is in the repositories. Can't wait to give it a run-through. Arch has got to be the best distro going at getting new packages built and online. Thanks for the effort! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street

Re: [arch-general] kde4 tip - quicklaunch in your panel -- convenience at your fingertips!

2009-10-26 Thread David C. Rankin
the teeth adjectives above :) For fun, see the hello world tutorial here: http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials#Introduction_To_KDE_4_Programming -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936

Re: [arch-general] Rock-n-roll Compiz 8.4 is in the repositories.

2009-10-26 Thread David C. Rankin
On Friday 23 October 2009 11:22:01 pm David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, Just updated and noticed compiz 8.4 is in the repositories. Can't wait to give it a run-through. Arch has got to be the best distro going at getting new packages built and online. Thanks for the effort! Follow up

Re: [arch-general] We have lost the desktop war. The reason? Windows 7.

2009-10-26 Thread David C. Rankin
.3111skyline.com/download/bugs/kde4/rankin-bug-list-20091026.pdf that's all 154 of them. (Note there are about 10 kde3 bugs in there, but I wasn't going to take the time to parse them out...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone

[arch-general] Arch Linux makes the kde list!

2009-10-29 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, Next time you have a kde4 bug to file, you will have a new Distribution listed to file it under. Archlinux is now there! See: https://bugs.kde.org/wizard.cgi -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715

[arch-general] Mayday - Installed Fresh Archlinux on Laptop - Resolution stuck 1152x864, need 1440x900??

2009-11-03 Thread David C. Rankin
don't know if that is a part of the issue either. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you need to see anything else, just let me know. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715

Re: [arch-general] Mayday - Installed Fresh Archlinux on Laptop - Resolution stuck 1152x864, need 1440x900?? [SOLVED]

2009-11-04 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 23:31:20 David C. Rankin wrote: The problem I have is that my laptop is stuck in 1152x864 resolution. For the text install that is fantastic, but when you start kde -- not so good. (should be 1440x900) The card is an RS690M (radeon 1200) and the radeon driver

Re: [arch-general] kde4 only install - how do I get quanta?? how do I cnf the kde3 runtime environment?

2009-11-06 Thread David C. Rankin
On Thursday 05 November 2009 08:19:19 Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: On 05.11.2009 08:51, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, This is the first time I have done a install that doesn't include kde3 and I'm running into a few problems: (1) I can't find quanta -- where is it hiding? (2) how does

Re: [arch-general] kde4 only install - how do I get quanta?? how do I cnf the kde3 runtime environment?

2009-11-06 Thread David C. Rankin
On Thursday 05 November 2009 09:24:59 David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 11/05/2009 02:51 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: (2) how does one configure the default font size, etc.. for the kde3-runtime-base without the kde3 control center? kcmshell for the kde3 runtime base list no modules?? Look like

Re: [arch-general] Mayday - Installed Fresh Archlinux on Laptop - Resolution stuck 1152x864, need 1440x900?? [SOLVED]

2009-11-06 Thread David C. Rankin
On Wednesday 04 November 2009 15:50:02 Jan de Groot wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 14:43 -0700, Byron Clark wrote: On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 03:38:26PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: A negative side effect of the new console resolution is that vi will NOT run. It errors out on start

[arch-general] kde3 sources available anymore missing garbage collector

2009-11-07 Thread David C. Rankin
the wiki in any of the areas I faced challenges. (I'm a bit tight on time at present) Thanks you all for all the help needed in the areas where I got hund up. Cheers! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333

[arch-general] kde4 kleopatra dependency missing when installed

2009-11-08 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, Just a note. When you install kde4, the kleopatra certificate is installed without the needed dependency 'dirmngr'. When you first run kleopatra, you will get the error. Do you want me to open a ticket, or is this email enough? Let me know. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E

[arch-general] new xorg go-openoffice are fighting - fatal user interface language cannot be determined

2009-11-09 Thread David C. Rankin
ISO-8859-1 The strange part is the fact it starts for root, but not a regular user (that normally sounds like a permissions problem). Java runtime permissions?? Where? Let me know what to check and whether you want me to file it as a bug and I'll be happy to. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E

Re: [arch-general] new xorg go-openoffice are fighting - fatal user interface language cannot be determined [SOLVED]

2009-11-09 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 09 November 2009 17:18:28 and regarding: and then look at the $USER environment variable: surprised? Well it's me! Anyway it isn't a good idea to run graphical applications as root. Good words of wisdom to live by :-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510

[arch-general] keepassx crashing?? (Ver 0.4.1-1 )

2009-11-09 Thread David C. Rankin
suck at tracking down these type of issues, (strace is Greek) but I'll keep trying. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

[arch-general] Entranced - Anybody Using It? I get it started, can enter name, but that's it.

2009-11-10 Thread David C. Rankin
'lock' icon and the '' (right-arrow) below the password line are grayed out as well. When things wouldn't work, I just used ctrl+alt+f1 and /etc/rc.d/entranced stop to kill it and then just used kdm. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux makes the kde list!

2009-11-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On Thursday 29 October 2009 12:35:50 and regarding: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:28 PM, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Guys, Next time you have a kde4 bug to file, you will have a new Distribution listed to file it under. Archlinux is now there! See

Re: [arch-general] Permission problems - http is 0775, (root:http), I am in http -- still can't write??

2009-11-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On Friday 06 November 2009 17:22:32 and regarding: On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 05:08:02PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: 16:59 alchemy:/srv/http grep http /etc/group http::33:david And what is the output of: $ groups ? Don't know if gpasswd -a is failing, I use: # usermod -a -G groupname

Re: [arch-general] Permission problems - http is 0775, (root:http), I am in http -- still can't write??

2009-11-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On Friday 06 November 2009 17:20:09 and regarding: On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 18:08, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Can anyone see the error in my logic? (diplomatically, of course) What's the trick? Did you log out and then log back in for the group changes to take

[arch-general] Howto compile in debugging symbols with makepks so I can use gdb?

2009-11-11 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, Still chasing the keepassx problem. There are no debugging symbols in the package so I used ABS to build from source, but of course there is no debugging there either. What's the trick to compile so I can get a meaningful gdb backtrace? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm

Re: [arch-general] keepassx crashing?? (Ver 0.4.1-1 )

2009-11-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 09 November 2009 20:39:28 and regarding: David C. Rankin wrote: Just a note; keepassx, which has worked reliably for years, began crashing today. I don't know whether it is keepassx, or qt (suspicion is qt). The errors are: 18:31 alchemy:~ keepassx Found Metastream

[arch-general] Frustrated with Crappy looking Firefox and OpenOffice GTK QT themes?

2009-11-11 Thread David C. Rankin
have both light and dark themes. You can find some additional/better themes at art.gnome.org Here is an example of firefox and openoffice with the touch-ups applied (60k): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/fixes/gtk-qt-example.jpg -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC

[arch-general] AUR: gcc-java-4.3.3.tar.bz2.part == ERROR: Build Failed.

2009-11-12 Thread David C. Rankin
with bsdtar - Extracting gcc-g++-4.3.3.tar.bz2 with bsdtar - Extracting gcc-java-4.3.3.tar.bz2 with bsdtar == Entering fakeroot environment... == Starting build()... You need the de_DE locale to build gcc. == ERROR: Build Failed. Aborting... What to check? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin

Re: [arch-general] AUR: gcc-java-4.3.3.tar.bz2.part == ERROR: Build Failed.

2009-11-13 Thread David C. Rankin
needs updating... I'd surprized if it worked at all in its current form. Thanks guys. I was starting to believe it was some kind of German conspiracy ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936

Re: [arch-general] Frustrated with Crappy looking Firefox and OpenOffice GTK QT themes?

2009-11-13 Thread David C. Rankin
report and kde.org. Imagine that... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] AUR: gcc-java-4.3.3.tar.bz2.part == ERROR: Build Failed.

2009-11-13 Thread David C. Rankin
... Getting that little pdftk build has become a real challenge. What needs to be done to update the package so it will build again? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339

[arch-general] archlinuxfr bad virtualbox_bin-3.0.10-1 package

2009-11-16 Thread David C. Rankin
... Targets (1): virtualbox_bin-3.0.10-1 Total Download Size:8.09 MB Total Installed Size: 88.87 MB Probably just a bad rsync... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339

[arch-general] First install of gnome on Arch, pretty cool... (new artwork this time :-)

2009-11-16 Thread David C. Rankin
done, I just had to send the screenshot in, so: (82k) http://www.3111skyline.com/download/ss/arch/archGnomeCompiz.jpg The Artwork for the caps: (108k) http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/compiz/archCaps.png If you like the artwork, use it at will... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E

Re: [arch-general] First install of gnome on Arch, pretty cool... (new artwork this time :-)

2009-11-17 Thread David C. Rankin
have created something they should really be proud of. There are quite a few distros that try to do Linux, very few get it right, and even fewer do it so well they get to watch what they have created start to grow. Great job and thanks! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510

Re: [arch-general] archlinuxfr bad virtualbox_bin-3.0.10-1 package

2009-11-17 Thread David C. Rankin
in the case of damages=profits -- you can do the math. Of course all just assuming arguendo, because we know the archfr folks have the permissions they require :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333

Re: [arch-general] MUA

2009-11-17 Thread David C. Rankin
. There are a lot of good packages out there, you just have to find the one that fits your tastes and needs. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

[arch-general] Akonadi control process not registered at D-Bus, committing suicide! -- WTF?

2009-11-22 Thread David C. Rankin
C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

[arch-general] New install configuring php - only get text - feeling stupid -- help!

2009-11-23 Thread David C. Rankin
the directory to /dcr. In fact I can browse /dcr just fine, but clicking on the phpinfo() script just returns the text of the script like all my other pages. What's the trick? (yes, I've stopped and restarted httpd...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street

Re: [arch-general] New install configuring php - only get text - feeling stupid -- help!

2009-11-23 Thread David C. Rankin
, but that is the only thing I can see that could have caused the problem. I'll keep my ouigi board handy in case it happens again! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339

[arch-general] kmail spellcheck reporting no errors when there plainly are errors - can someone confirm?

2009-11-23 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, With KMail Version 1.12.3 Using KDE 4.3.3 (KDE 4.3.3), kmail isn't catching any spelling error. Eggsample: lsdfjhosijg Spellcheck with kmaaail: Spell check complete. WTF?? If you can confirm, I'll bug it. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street

[arch-general] Gnome - howto configure sound? Sound is silent, beep is loud (as heck)?

2009-11-24 Thread David C. Rankin
to ask. I'm more than happy to do the work on my end to learn how to fix this. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] kmail spellcheck reporting no errors when there plainly are errors - can someone confirm?

2009-11-25 Thread David C. Rankin
(they are encrypted, just not to the extent wallet does). I find wallet to be a complete pain. Even if I set it to always remember my password, I still get prompted to enter it at the least expected times. I tried to live with it on this latest install, but that relationship ended in divorce ;-) -- David C

Re: [arch-general] kmail spellcheck reporting no errors when there plainly are errors - can someone confirm?

2009-11-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 24 November 2009 01:03:35 and regarding: David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, With KMail Version 1.12.3 Using KDE 4.3.3 (KDE 4.3.3), kmail isn't catching any spelling error. Eggsample: works here... do you have the aspell dictionary for your language installed? Yes, I have

Re: [arch-general] Gnome - howto configure sound? Sound is silent, beep is loud (as heck)?

2009-11-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 24 November 2009 10:23:06 and regarding: On 11/24/2009 04:00 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: the system beep is so loud it will scare the heck out of you when you backspace too far, etc... I need to reverse both. Solution for this is to either 1) lower the volume, by lowering

[arch-general] Help - Sound Disappeared -- Really! All modules - Gone?? (kernel bug?)

2009-11-30 Thread David C. Rankin
: pci:v1002d4383sv1179sdFF08bc04sc03i00 Driver Info #0: Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active Driver Activation Cmd: modprobe snd_hda_intel Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Now how do I get the sound to re-appear in Arch?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law

[arch-general] packages installed to /usr/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu and x86_64-unknown-uclibc -- broken??

2009-12-01 Thread David C. Rankin
/ -type f | wc -l 367 Full file list at: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/usr-x86-64-unknown.txt The file dates on the files are November 5th. These directories look like they should be somewhere else, so I'm putting it to the brain-trust, bug or feature?? -- David C. Rankin

[arch-general] Pretty Cool Dark Blue Arch Linux kdm/xdm greeter theme for your box

2009-12-01 Thread David C. Rankin
out and you should have it looking at you. Enjoy: (~401k due to the svg dialogs..) http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kdm/ArchSpotLight.tar.gz -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936

Re: [arch-general] Pretty Cool Dark Blue Arch Linux kdm/xdm greeter theme for your box

2009-12-01 Thread David C. Rankin
:p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] Help - Sound Disappeared -- Really! All modules - Gone?? (kernel bug?)

2009-12-01 Thread David C. Rankin
, but at least I have all the current packages if that becomes necessary. I bet it was gnome that did it :p. I think I have another x86_64 Arch install for my laptop, maybe I could pull the missing files from there. But how to tell what I need to copy? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC

Re: [arch-general] Single Person ISP?

2009-12-01 Thread David C. Rankin
C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] Help - Sound Disappeared -- Really! All modules - Gone?? (kernel bug?)

2009-12-01 Thread David C. Rankin
-intel kernel26 /lib/modules/2.6.31-ARCH/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko It's there, it's just sitting in sound-preoss.tar.bz2 right now. How to proceed?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile

Re: [arch-general] Help - Sound Disappeared -- Really! All modules - Gone?? (kernel bug?)

2009-12-01 Thread David C. Rankin
C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] Help - Sound Disappeared -- Really! All modules - Gone?? (kernel bug?)

2009-12-01 Thread David C. Rankin
removal script that restores alsa works as it is supposed to. Alsa restored, module loaded and sound is back to normal (although with a cool mixer in kde 4.3.4) Thanks again DR. Next time, just send me back the following link: http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/ :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D

Re: [arch-general] packages installed to /usr/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu and x86_64-unknown-uclibc -- broken??

2009-12-01 Thread David C. Rankin
they are fine where they are, but shouldn't the install packages have put them somewhere else? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] Help - Sound Disappeared -- Really! All modules - Gone?? (kernel bug?)

2009-12-01 Thread David C. Rankin
brought the issue to life. All is good now. Thank you for your help. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] dcopserver problem

2009-12-02 Thread David C. Rankin
this is a kde problem. If you haven't done it yet, open a bug at bugs.kde.org and post the bug number. I'm still trying to collect additional details. If I get the needed info before your response, I'll file it and post the bug back here. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510

[arch-general] turn mc into a 'SuperTool' enable 'Lynx-like motion'

2009-12-03 Thread David C. Rankin
the directory hierchy. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

[arch-general] Yikes! kernel26-2.6.32-1-x86_64 leaves Toshiba laptop unbootable

2009-12-06 Thread David C. Rankin
that logging was turned on. Anyway, you guys let me know what you want to see or what you want me to test and I'll get it for you FAST. I can't have my Arch install down. I can live without suse, but not Arch ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches

Re: [arch-general] Yikes! kernel26-2.6.32-1-x86_64 leaves Toshiba laptop unbootable

2009-12-06 Thread David C. Rankin
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 and Radeon KMS

2009-12-06 Thread David C. Rankin
to boot again... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

[arch-general] [WORK-AROUND] Re: Yikes! kernel26-2.6.32-1-x86_64 leaves Toshiba laptop unbootable

2009-12-06 Thread David C. Rankin
: # MODULES=piix ide_disk reiserfs #MODULES=radeon MODULES= and then add radeon to the modules line in /etc/rc.conf: MODULES=(radeon ath5k vboxdrv !pcspkr) Then upgrade the kernel and all will be good. Thanks again for you guys help! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm

[arch-general] scripts to analyze and manage /var/cache/pacman/pkg for installed/uninstalled gen install scr for uninstalled

2009-12-07 Thread David C. Rankin
...) For all you gurus out there, if you happen to look at the scripts and see things I could do better, I welcome the feedback because I'm always open to adding new tools to my toolbox as well ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 and Radeon KMS

2009-12-07 Thread David C. Rankin
crossed -- or go shop nvidia gpu based laptops :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] Help - Sound Disappeared -- Really! All modules - Gone?? (kernel bug?)

2009-12-07 Thread David C. Rankin
entry', so I just chocked it up to my reasonable suspicion of operator error :-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

2009-12-07 Thread David C. Rankin
03:40:58 nirvana console-kit-daemon[2480]: WARNING: Couldn't connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333

[arch-general] testing: xf86-video-ati, libdrm - transparency lost in kde4 w/compiz

2009-12-07 Thread David C. Rankin
with KMS. Anybody else see this? Everything else with the driver and drm seems to work OK, but I haven't rebuilt the initramfs for KMS early yet (waiting on more info on the driver issue). Do you want me to try that?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree

[arch-general] kde4/kmail slow - anybody else notice or is it just me?

2009-12-07 Thread David C. Rankin
. (if that is possible) Anybody else seeing a slow down in kmail? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] kde4/kmail slow - anybody else notice or is it just me?

2009-12-08 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 08 December 2009 01:55:36 and regarding: Am Dienstag 08 Dezember 2009 08:41:15 schrieb David C. Rankin: Anybody else seeing a slow down in kmail? Well the initial access to a folder (after kmail install) takes a few seconds, but after that it's usually fast. I just counted

Re: [arch-general] testing: xf86-video-ati, libdrm - transparency lost in kde4 w/compiz

2009-12-08 Thread David C. Rankin
when used with KMS. Anybody else see this? fricking fat fingers -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] scripts to analyze and manage /var/cache/pacman/pkg for installed/uninstalled gen install scr for uninstalled

2009-12-08 Thread David C. Rankin
in the scripts and I write the comments in the scripts telling you it isn't necessary but to do it anyway as a matter of good form. Very few understand the subshell rule, but if you always reset IFS, you will always be OK :p Thanks for making me remember it though! -- David C. Rankin

Re: [arch-general] testing: xf86-video-ati, libdrm - transparency lost in kde4 w/compiz

2009-12-08 Thread David C. Rankin
Xavier wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:14 AM, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 08 December 2009 01:39:29 and regarding: This is which radeon loaded in rc.conf due to the current hang in used with KMS. Anybody else see this? Let me try that again

[arch-general] go-openoffice not opening templates - anybody else?

2009-12-10 Thread David C. Rankin
with go-oo and templates? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] go-openoffice not opening templates - anybody else?

2009-12-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On 12/10/2009 06:00 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: 2009/12/10 Ng Oon-Eengoo...@gmail.com: On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 04:13 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I had to uninstall go-openoffice today and install the regular (beta) version so my templates would open again. When I would try

Re: [arch-general] kde4/kmail slow - anybody else notice or is it just me?

2009-12-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On 12/08/2009 08:00 PM, Atanas Zhelev wrote: 2009/12/8 David C. Rankindrankina...@suddenlinkmail.com: On Tuesday 08 December 2009 01:55:36 and regarding: Am Dienstag 08 Dezember 2009 08:41:15 schrieb David C. Rankin: Anybody else seeing a slow down in kmail? Hi, i have 11000+ messages

Re: [arch-general] kde4/kmail slow - anybody else notice or is it just me?

2009-12-11 Thread David C. Rankin
more than 1000 unreaded mails in a folder. (Yes, exactly 1000. 999 are fine.) http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207628 Fabian, That looks exactly like what is going on. I have a few very active subscriptions 300-400 emails/day. Go away for the weekend and you are big trouble :-) -- David C

Re: [arch-general] New Thunderbird build 3.0-2 installs lightning by default

2009-12-14 Thread David C. Rankin
) location: JS frame :: file:///usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0/extensions/%7Be2fd4-76b-420-bd-a41df33103D/modules/calStorageUpgrade.jsm :: ensureUpdatedTimezones :: line 380 data: no] -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333

Re: [arch-general] I know of $repo, is there a $arch too?

2009-12-14 Thread David C. Rankin
don't know if you can quickly get the package architecture by some other method than substring extraction on the file name, but that in itself is simple enough. Food for thought :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936

[arch-general] speaking of Thunderbird 3.X - great new thread summary view

2009-12-14 Thread David C. Rankin
/moz/tbird-thread-summary.jpg -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] I know of $repo, is there a $arch too?

2009-12-15 Thread David C. Rankin
On 12/15/2009 01:55 AM, Allan McRae wrote: Read the other replies to the thread Allan, I did right after I hit send :-( -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339

[arch-general] Quanta - Installed w/kde4, but ssh/sftp/fish upload choices are gone??

2009-12-16 Thread David C. Rankin
configured to work correctly in quanta on kde4. If you did, how? What's the trick? I would hate to have to install kde3 just to get the quanta upload feature back. What say the experts? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936

[arch-general] Good press at distrowatch.com

2009-12-17 Thread David C. Rankin
, MD5). /quote Good job guys. Another testament to wise decision making, good distro management, and smart devs ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] Thunderbird bugging with Lightning + Enigmail

2009-12-17 Thread David C. Rankin
gpg keys work. I'm glad to hear that enigmail will allow integration again. (one I find the right one -- or once the package is upgraded for 3.x) The cost of progress -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 and Radeon KMS

2009-12-17 Thread David C. Rankin
on it shortly. It S U C K S to have a laptop that worked perfectly and fast with the unavailable 'legacy' driver, now not work or work like crap with the new driver. Progress...??? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 and Radeon KMS

2009-12-17 Thread David C. Rankin
, installing, restarting X and checking and then marking good/bad. To my shagrin, there were only 90+ commits within the good/bad window I have. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339

Re: [arch-general] Thunderbird bugging with Lightning + Enigmail

2009-12-17 Thread David C. Rankin
it downloads, it fails on install with the not compatible message. I'll check the abs package. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] Good press at distrowatch.com

2009-12-17 Thread David C. Rankin
and logically they are also the two areas that give new users the most frustration. I agree with Dieter, that the install should be measured by speed and automation -- but long ago I realized that there a whole lot of other people out there that just don't think like me :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E

[arch-general] Firefox Themes Will Not Install / Disabled - Unsecure Extenstion Updates

2009-12-18 Thread David C. Rankin
: this is not advisable due to security concerns, use with discretion) (ps - I know this is a cross post ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] Thunderbird bugging with Lightning + Enigmail

2009-12-19 Thread David C. Rankin
of incompatibility between lightning and enigmail are fully true, i.e. have both add-ons enabled and you'll loose some text in your menu, disable either and everything looks good again. Irritating indeed! /M You're Good... Thanks Magnus! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree

[arch-general] kernel26-2.6.32.2-1 -- Radeon module (EE) config/hal ... org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied

2009-12-22 Thread David C. Rankin
laptop w/Radeon RS690M. The full log is here: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/radeonhd/log/Xorg.0.22095221.log Anybody know what to do to figure out what is going on here? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone

[arch-general] MAYDAY - drm/mesa/libgl/radeon updates - laptop stuck in 1152x864 - kdm locks on logout!

2009-12-23 Thread David C. Rankin
for info, etc. I'm glad to provide logs, etc. I'll also go ahead and open a ticket if you think it is necessary. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] MAYDAY - drm/mesa/libgl/radeon updates - laptop stuck in 1152x864 - kdm locks on logout!

2009-12-23 Thread David C. Rankin
On 12/23/2009 02:24 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: I got bit bad tonight by the updates tonight. X starts but is stuck at 1152x864, if I log out, X freezes. Looks like bad libdrm and lib32-libdrm packages. Specifically, I upgraded: [2009-12-23 00:30] starting full system upgrade [2009-12-23

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Law Office? (Was: Re: go-openoffice not opening templates - anybody else?)

2009-12-23 Thread David C. Rankin
replacement for quickbooks. There are some good project making headway, but I haven't had time to check/test anything in the past year. Hopefully, we can give quickbooks the boot in the next year or so. Anybody got a favorite open-source accounting package that would be good to test? -- David C

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Law Office? (Was: Re: go-openoffice not opening templates - anybody else?)

2009-12-23 Thread David C. Rankin
the potential to do. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] MAYDAY - drm/mesa/libgl/radeon updates - laptop stuck in 1152x864 - kdm locks on logout!

2009-12-23 Thread David C. Rankin
On 12/23/2009 03:15 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 03:05 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: Ouch! Now, I don't know if this happened after the kernel update to 26-2.6.32.2-1 or if it just happened tonight with the drm update and then downgrade. I can't think of any reason the upgrade

Re: [arch-general] MAYDAY - drm/mesa/libgl/radeon updates - laptop stuck in 1152x864 - kdm locks on logout!

2009-12-23 Thread David C. Rankin
On 12/23/2009 05:20 PM, Jan de Groot wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 03:37 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: Err, yep slow is a nice way to put it. The question is how do I get back to the usable 2D hardware setup? Should I set KMS back up? I'm up to date with all packages except the mesa/drm/libgl

Re: [arch-general] kernel26-2.6.32.2-1 -- Radeon module (EE) config/hal ... org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied

2009-12-23 Thread David C. Rankin
accel seems to be working. Tis.. a fun time in Radeonland we all be having now (comment about doing something terrible to AMD omitted ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339

[arch-general] What ISO will load a kernel in an AMD K62/450?

2009-12-27 Thread David C. Rankin
download, if any, can install on this old hardware. (currently a great little fax server, backup DNS/dhcp box and 40G of storage.) Any help (or the right link) would be appreciated. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Law Office? (Was: Re: go-openoffice not opening templates - anybody else?)

2010-01-03 Thread David C. Rankin
Aniruddha wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 03:10 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: Anybody got a favorite open-source accounting package that would be good to test? http://www.gnucash.org I've looked at it before -- years back and it wasn't quite there yet. I'll have another look, it may

[arch-general] How does dmraid handle the development of a bad block on 1 drive in an array??

2010-01-06 Thread David C. Rankin
Socket Designation: Socket 939 Type: Central Processor Family: Athlon 64 Manufacturer: AMD ID: 32 0F 02 00 FF FB 8B 17 Signature: Family 15, Model 35, Stepping 2 All thoughts welcomed... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Law Office? (Was: Re: go-openoffice not opening templates - anybody else?)

2010-01-07 Thread David C. Rankin
a big push on for Linux acceptance at that time, because one instance like that during a corporate transition and it could set the effort back 5 years. Thanks for your info and I will be very interested to see what comes in this new decade... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC

Re: [arch-general] high CPU temperature with 2.6.32

2010-01-07 Thread David C. Rankin
or anything like that ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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