[arch-general] nvidia card - fans are really cranked up after the latest driver update a week or so ago

2009-08-20 Thread David C. Rankin
boot with openSuSE 11.0 so I can confirm that this is an arch/nvidia issue. Has anyone else noticed fan speed increases on your NV cards here lately? If so, any solutions?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715

Re: [arch-general] nvidia card - fans are really cranked up after the latest driver update a week or so ago

2009-08-21 Thread David C. Rankin
On Friday 21 August 2009 03:15:20 am RedShift wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > Listmates, > > > > I have been chasing an issue on Arch having to do with the 8800GT in it. > > A couple of weeks ago there was a driver update from Nvidia that has > > caused th

Re: [arch-general] nvidia card - fans are really cranked up after the latest driver update a week or so ago

2009-08-21 Thread David C. Rankin
n the past several weeks and, if so, (2) whether anyone had found a solution? Sorry to confuse the issue. Thank you for your responses and 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] Problems with install Iso

2009-08-21 Thread David C. Rankin
, When you find a solution that works, would you mind posting it here. I have a number of boxes that I will be moving to Arch and if you can save me from having to reinvent the wheel, it would be much appreciated. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Stre

Re: [arch-general] Weird png corruption issue from Gwenview using "crop" -> "Save As" -> to a smb share

2009-08-21 Thread David C. Rankin
. Example: ksnapshot -> "Open With" -> Gimp -> crop -> "Save As" also works perfectly. Looks like it will just have to be resolved by: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203109 -- 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] Can I downgrade the nvidia driver w/o downgrading the kernel?

2009-08-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Before trying anything I would regret, I thought I would ask. Is it possible? If so, how? Is "-d" OK here? Worst case, I just end up in runlevel 3 reinstalling the current driver again, right? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texa

Re: [arch-general] Can I downgrade the nvidia driver w/o downgrading the kernel?

2009-08-22 Thread David C. Rankin
Redshift, Dieter, Nathan, Xavier, all Thanks for you help pointing me in the right direction for the downgrade. I report back with the results. -- 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] PHP 5.3 - just takes a bit of reconfiguring, but then works fine

2009-08-22 Thread David C. Rankin
That's it, hope it saves somebody a few extra minutes of time. -- 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] Howto adjust font scaling in Arch? All fonts look a bit big and fat?

2009-08-24 Thread David C. Rankin
thing from the kmail message list to the basket notepad fonts look cramped. Any thoughts? -- 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] Script for finding and "moving" older duplicate packages from /var/cache/pacman/pkg

2009-08-24 Thread David C. Rankin
e commented it so it is somewhat readable. Enjoy. -- 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] Why doesn't plasma-panel show open apps in 2 rows in arch?

2009-08-24 Thread David C. Rankin
/screenshots/panel-2rows.jpeg Is there a hidden setting for this, or is it just in the next 4.3.00-xyz package to be released? -- 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] Script for finding and "moving" older duplicate packages from /var/cache/pacman/pkg

2009-08-24 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 24 August 2009 11:51:45 pm David C. Rankin wrote: > > The script for finding and moving older duplicate packages is named > fduppkg and is fairly self-explanitory. Running without arguments gives the > options: > BASH never fails to amaze me, 3116 e

Re: [arch-general] introducing kernel26-lts

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
functionality by some unintended new feature. This will be a great addition to arch. -- 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] Script for finding and "moving" older duplicate packages from /var/cache/pacman/pkg

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
h that ;-) Thanks Patrick, Thomas, Xavier. -- 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] Howto adjust font scaling in Arch? All fonts look a bit big and fat?

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
) is this right, if not, then why? and (2) is there any other remote desktop app that will handle kde4 better? Lastly, "xrdb -q | grep dpi" doesn't seem to be set on any of my Arch or suse boxes -- should it be? If so, to what? Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin

Re: [arch-general] Why doesn't plasma-panel show open apps in 2 rows in arch?

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 03:00:13 am Fabian Schölzel wrote: > 2009/8/25 David C. Rankin : > >Is there a hidden setting for this, or is it just in the next > > 4.3.00-xyz package to be released? > > I'm at work, but if i remember correctly, theres is a setting

[arch-general] What changed: udev PolicyKit - No mount of usb or CD for non-root?

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, After updates this past week or so (not sure exactly when), Arch no longer mounts usb or CD/DVDs when inserted. What is the most likely culprit? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333

[arch-general] http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/testing/ - almost usuable "google-analytics"

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
nally know what the problem is, but it may not be helpful to Arch to have the repos killed by some configured (or misconfigured) web traffic analyzer package... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile:

[arch-general] Bug in latest vim - have to enter :q an additional time after split

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
shots: [1] http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/vim-1.jpeg [2] http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/vim-2.jpeg [3] http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/vim-3.jpeg Is this a bug I need to report or does it look like a configuration issue? -- Da

Re: [arch-general] What changed: udev PolicyKit - No mount of usb or CD for non-root?

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 06:02:10 pm Jan de Groot wrote: > On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 17:42 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > > Listmates, > > > > After updates this past week or so (not sure exactly when), Arch no > > longer mounts usb or CD/DVDs when inserted. What is

Re: [arch-general] http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/testing/ - almost usuable "google-analytics"

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 07:25:27 pm Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Mittwoch 26 August 2009 01:49:52 schrieb David C. Rankin: > > I'm glad to finally know what the problem is, but it may not be > > helpful to Arch to have the repos killed by some configured (or > >

[arch-general] How to choose which grub entry boots next from the cli via ssh in Arch?

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
ub, but it isn't. Also, I don't need it for a local machine (obviously), but I need something I can use via ssh. What do we use here? -- 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] http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/testing/ - almost usuable "google-analytics"

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 10:09:04 pm Dan McGee wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:38 PM, David C. > > > > Rankin wrote: > >> On Tuesday 25 August 2009 07:25:27 pm Pierre Schmitz wrote: > >>> A

Re: [arch-general] Bug in latest vim - have to enter :q an additional time after split

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 10:06:10 pm Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:17 PM, David C. > > Rankin wrote: > > Listmates, > > > >There is a bug in the latest vim. Something prevents split windows > > from completely closing requiring a

[arch-general] [SOLVED] Re: Bug in latest vim - have to enter :q an additional time after split

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 11:29:09 pm David C. Rankin wrote: > On Tuesday 25 August 2009 10:06:10 pm Aaron Griffin wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:17 PM, David C. > > > > Rankin wrote: > > > Listmates, > > > > > >There is a bug in the la

Re: [arch-general] How to choose which grub entry boots next from the cli via ssh in Arch?

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
0.5 2: openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.19-3.2 (/dev/sdb1) 3: Windows Then all you have to do is issue the command: # grubonce 2 and you will boot suse 11.1 next time. That's what I'm looking for. I'll keep digging. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Na

[arch-general] [SOLVED] Re: How to choose which grub entry boots next from the cli via ssh in Arch?

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 11:54:21 pm David C. Rankin wrote: > On Tuesday 25 August 2009 09:51:50 pm Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > > There are multiple ways: > > You can put "default 2" at the very top of your menu.lst which will > > always select the 2nd entry (0

Re: [arch-general] introducing kernel26-lts

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
the lts kernel is running and have it get put in the right place? I guess so, I'll give it a go tomorrow. If that sounds like a really bad idea, 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) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] Why doesn't plasma-panel show open apps in 2 rows in arch?

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
gt; Does kinda make you wonder, don't it. -- 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] Howto adjust font scaling in Arch? All fonts look a bit big and fat?

2009-08-26 Thread David C. Rankin
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 10:25:31 am David Rosenstrauch wrote: > On 08/25/2009 06:34 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > > While on this stray tangent -- is there anyway to make kde4 readable > > over vnc? IIRC, kde4 looks terrible when using vncserver because it is a > > nat

Re: [arch-general] introducing kernel26-lts

2009-08-26 Thread David C. Rankin
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 02:54:50 am Thomas Bächler wrote: > David C. Rankin schrieb: > > How do you handle the situation where you are running the nvidia > > driver on > > > the normal kernel and then boot to the lts kernel? The kernel boots fine, > > but

Re: [arch-general] introducing kernel26-lts

2009-08-26 Thread David C. Rankin
works fine on my msi k9n2 box w/phenom processor. Apache2, bind, php5.3, ssl, etc.. all seem fine with the kernel. ( Next - I'll go see if I can get virtualbox to work on it and report back ) ((ducking)) -- 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] [SOLVED] Re: Bug in latest vim - have to enter :q an additional time after split

2009-08-26 Thread David C. Rankin
x highlighting was fixed here in the last vim release. It's gone now. 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] [SOLVED] Re: How to choose which grub entry boots next from the cli via ssh in Arch?

2009-08-26 Thread David C. Rankin
bout Linux. There is always more than 1 way to skin the cat ;-) [ We now have two more pelts... ] -- 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] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread David C. Rankin
ne before issuing the "sudo pacman -S $(cat pkg.list)`, then the install uses the local files and avoid the time required to download them. You can easily do a 10 minute install that way. -- 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] introducing kernel26-lts

2009-08-26 Thread David C. Rankin
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 12:49:25 pm Xavier wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:46 PM, David C. > > Rankin wrote: > >If the nvidia driver is too much of a pain to maintain, the how > > about the nv driver. That way all you would have to do is modify your > > x

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread David C. Rankin
--needed > > work the best for this. list out only explicitly installed minus any > foreign packages; then only install those that are needed (pull in your > own deps). > That's a keeper -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoch

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

2009-08-28 Thread David C. Rankin
e posted: 800x514 (90K) http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/kde4/font-scaling- suse-9pt-800.jpeg 1440x900 (270k) http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/kde4/font-scaling- suse-9pt.jpeg I'll swap driver and post the arch comparison later tonight. -- Da

[arch-general] subversion package newer than testing ??

2009-08-29 Thread David C. Rankin
newer than the subversion in testing: testing/subversion 1.6.4-2 Replacement for CVS, another versioning system (svn) extra/subversion 1.6.5-2 Replacement for CVS, another versioning system (svn) What's up? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochilt

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

2009-08-29 Thread David C. Rankin
On Saturday 29 August 2009 01:14:06 am David C. Rankin wrote: > On Thursday 27 August 2009 03:00:14 am RedShift wrote: > > This thread is useless without pics... > > > > > > Glenn > > Agreed. > > Here is a link to my suse desktop showing the kmail mess

Re: [arch-general] subversion package newer than testing ??

2009-08-29 Thread David C. Rankin
On Saturday 29 August 2009 10:13:14 pm Allan McRae wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > Listmates, > > > > > > What's up? > > Subversion is in testing for the ruby-1.9 rebuild which has been held up > for a long time due to the vim/gvim. The subversi

[arch-general] since the fglrx legacy driver is now static - any will to make a run at getting it to work?

2009-08-30 Thread David C. Rankin
or 2400+ series cards, good luck, it's still moving pretty fast -- 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] Howto adjust font scaling in Arch? All fonts look a bit big and fat?

2009-09-02 Thread David C. Rankin
#x27;ve nearly mastered vim over the past 10 years when all I really needed to do was ssh "-X" hostname and then type "kwrite". Think of all the empty space and all those uncluttered brain cells I would still have available for something else today ;-) Live and learn... --

[arch-general] My first convert isn't going so well. Problems with net install.

2009-09-08 Thread David C. Rankin
hing that might help, just let me know and I'll pass it along. 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] My first convert isn't going so well. Problems with net install.

2009-09-12 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 08 September 2009 07:04:42 pm Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 20:01, David C. > > Rankin wrote: > > Listmates, > > > >One of my friends from the openSuSE list was trying his first > > archilinux install and ran into an

Re: [arch-general] since the fglrx legacy driver is no w static - any will to make a run at getting it to work ?

2009-09-12 Thread David C. Rankin
On Wednesday 02 September 2009 03:57:22 am Thomas Bächler wrote: > David C. Rankin schrieb: > > Now with the driver static, I wonder if it might not be worth looking > > into to see if it is even feasable to try and make it work with the > > current arch setup. >

Re: [arch-general] archlinux on old hardware

2009-09-18 Thread David C. Rankin
n pick up great AGP cards on ebay for ~$30 (GeForce 6800 Ultra, etc..) Will give Arch a go on the old boxes and see how they behave. 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] Community db missing ?

2009-09-18 Thread David C. Rankin
t caught right away :blush: > Fat fingers, eh? -- 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] Last couple of updates Knocked my Wireless -- OUT (atheros/madwifi/ath_pci)

2009-09-20 Thread David C. Rankin
so that is presenting my wireless from being brought up at boot?? Any help or pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated. 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] Last couple of updates Knocked my Wireless -- OUT (atheros/madwifi/ath_pci)

2009-09-21 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 21 September 2009 09:25:24 am Tom K wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > Listmates, > > > > I'm not sure where to start troubleshooting this problem. For months and > > months, ever since I installed Arch, my Atheros wifi (through ath0) has > > a

Re: [arch-general] Last couple of updates Knocked my Wireless -- OUT (atheros/madwifi/ath_pci)

2009-09-21 Thread David C. Rankin
get it for you. Also, will try to install the prior version of the madwifi driver (Ver. 0.9.4.3952-5) and see if that helps the speed issue. Thank for your help and let me know if I can post anything else you think might 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] Last couple of updates Knocked my Wireless -- OUT (atheros/madwifi/ath_pci)

2009-09-22 Thread David C. Rankin
;m not very good at troubleshooting wireless driver issues. How would I start trying to figure out what is causing the poor wireless performance. I do have a spare laptop drive with SuSE on it that I can pop in to compare things if that would help. I just need to know what I would need to start l

Re: [arch-general] Last couple of updates Knocked my Wireless -- OUT (atheros/madwifi/ath_pci)

2009-09-22 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 22 September 2009 08:49:51 am Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:43, David C. Rankin > > wrote: > > Vincent, > > > >Thank you for the information. At least I know I'm not going > > crazy... It looks like I will have to down

[arch-general] New kernel/updates - Is the timezone information messed up for dual-boot configs?

2009-09-22 Thread David C. Rankin
What else to check? Any help would be greatly appreciated. (this time I have made an effor to post everything possibly relevant, so if I have missed something you would like to see, just ask, no need to yell) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Str

Re: [arch-general] [kernel26 >= .30 + e100] Slow ethernet

2009-09-22 Thread David C. Rankin
01kB/s. So far it looks like a time (clock) issue on my box, but I'm still trying to figure out exactly what is happening. -- 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] Last couple of updates Knocked my Wireless -- OUT (atheros/madwifi/ath_pci)

2009-09-22 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 22 September 2009 09:56:49 am David C. Rankin wrote: > I know the wmaster0/wlan0 combination was weird, but it seemed to > work fine. I'll change the config to wifi0/ath0 under the old kernel, > confirm performance under the setup and then I'll reinstall th

Re: [arch-general] New kernel/updates - Is the timezone information messed up for dual-boot configs?

2009-09-22 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 22 September 2009 01:29:03 pm Alessandro Doro wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:17:55PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > > Listmates, > > > > I have been chasing my tail on the madwifi issue and I think I have > > found the problem. It's not m

Re: [arch-general] New kernel/updates - Is the timezone information messed up for dual-boot configs?

2009-09-22 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 22 September 2009 01:36:32 pm Xavier wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:17 PM, David C. Rankin > > wrote: > > Listmates, > > > >I have been chasing my tail on the madwifi issue and I think I > > have found the problem. It's not madwifi

[arch-general] Failover to LTS in the Arch boot processt?

2009-09-25 Thread David C. Rankin
talls where the server operates on the regular kernel but also has LTS installed as a backup. I'll leave it to the gurus to consider. If it's not doable or not worth doing, then just consider it another of my stray thoughts worthy of the DEL key ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

[arch-general] Why doesn't Arch show full kernel version in uname-r?

2009-09-25 Thread David C. Rankin
son the rest of the version string inst included in this naming? Not a biggie by any stretch, just another curious thought ;-) -- 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] Why doesn't Arch show full kernel version in uname-r?

2009-09-26 Thread David C. Rankin
On Saturday 26 September 2009 01:40:53 am Evangelos Foutras wrote: > In short, to save rebuilding all out-of-tree modules after every minor > kernel release. > That's the answer I was looking for. Saves work! Like I said, it isn't a biggie, I was just curious. Thanks. -- D

[arch-general] Opera Tip -- Use QT/GTK file Open/Save dialogs

2009-09-26 Thread David C. Rankin
#x27;s worth a look. While on the subject, you might want to check out the C00-14, Keramik and crystal_onyx_bull skins. Opera has come a long way in 10.0 -- 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] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.31.1-1

2009-09-29 Thread David C. Rankin
-a Linux supersff 2.6.31-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 26 02:39:09 CEST 2009 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux -- 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] ERROR - Installing texlive: map file `ams-bsr-interpolated.map' has not been found

2009-10-01 Thread David C. Rankin
luatex.ini' failed `luatex -ini -jobname=dviluatex -progname=dviluatex dviluatex.ini' failed recreating all formats... done. (logs are under /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c//.log) You have new mail in /var/mail/david -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacog

[arch-general] kde4 themes and trick your kids (and maybe you) will enjoy

2009-10-01 Thread David C. Rankin
t's my informational post for the day :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] ERROR - Installing texlive: map file `ams-bsr-interpolated.map' has not been found

2009-10-01 Thread David C. Rankin
Last login: Thu Oct 1 12:32:58 2009 from alchemy.3111skyline.com 16:53 archangel:~> sudo updmap-sys --syncwithtrees updmap: This is updmap, version $Id: updmap 14402 2009-07-23 17:09:15Z karl $ updmap: using transcript file `/usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/updmap.log' u

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-04 Thread David C. Rankin
t "Arch" config could potentially cause more user headaches than they cure. SuSE and others have tried packaging web apps with limited success. The two exceptions to that are generally phpadministrator and phpmyadmin which I have seen successfully packaged by several distros. Just food

Re: [arch-general] archweb isn't updating its record.

2009-10-04 Thread David C. Rankin
pdates over the same period of time). I moved these guys down in the list and updates then proceeded normally. -- 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] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-07 Thread David C. Rankin
On Sunday 04 October 2009 04:42:19 am Xavier wrote: > On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:36 AM, David C. Rankin > > wrote: > > On Friday 02 October 2009 04:13:13 am Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > >> > Also, major php applications usually automatically notify the admin > >&g

Re: [arch-general] php not working - Was: Web_application_package_guidelines wiki page

2009-10-07 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 05 October 2009 06:26:52 am Allan McRae wrote: > Did you read the news about php on the front page of the website? > Oh, you mean that one, the one you have to scroll way down (one or two mouse scrolls) to find... (ducking. ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin La

Re: [arch-general] [SOLVED] php not working - Was: Web_application_package_guidelines wiki page

2009-10-07 Thread David C. Rankin
and about pulled my hair out tightening the php.ini configuration to play nice with 5.3. The changes really show where you had been loose in your config before 5.3 and gotten away with it. Now 5.3 requires a bit of clean up with your config, but then works just fine. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.31.2-1

2009-10-07 Thread David C. Rankin
n the radeonhd driver loads as well. Just thought I would pass it along. -- 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] Who has the original for backgrounds in /usr/share/archlinux/wallpaper

2009-10-07 Thread David C. Rankin
CPU meter. I don't mind putting the arch logos back on just the plain backgrounds, but with the textures and patterns involved, there aren't something you can just move the logo on. If anybody has them, I would appreciate a copy. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm

[arch-general] Which security setting in Arch prevents forwarding X apps when su root?

2009-10-07 Thread David C. Rankin
ected because of wrong authentication. kwrite: cannot connect to X server localhost:10.0 kdm config? X config? Any pointers/links would be appreciated. -- 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] [SOLVED] php not working - Was: Web_application_package_guidelines wiki page

2009-10-08 Thread David C. Rankin
your linux box in a critical role is to setup another 'testing' box to test updates on and confirm all is well before updating the box you rely on. That will virtually eliminate any downtime. With P4 3.0GHz boxes being excessed for as little as $60 it's cheap insurance. -- Dav

Re: [arch-general] Which security setting in Arch prev ents forwarding X apps when su root?

2009-10-08 Thread David C. Rankin
On Thursday 08 October 2009 09:56:06 am Thomas Bächler wrote: > David C. Rankin schrieb: > > Listmates, > > > > Which setting in Arch prevents forwarding apps when you ssh -X in an Arch > > box, su and then try to start a kde app, etc.? X forwarding works just > >

[arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update

2009-10-09 Thread David C. Rankin
fine. What could have changed? Full Xorg.0.log and pacman.log are here: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/Xorg.0.log http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/pacman.log.bz2 Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -- David C. Rank

[arch-general] nut package - no docs or cgi interface??

2009-10-09 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, Any reason that the nut package (network ups tools) isn't being packaged with the documentation (release notes, upgrade notes, etc.) or the web interface (cgi/html) files? Just curious? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches,

Re: [arch-general] nut package - no docs or cgi interface??

2009-10-09 Thread David C. Rankin
On Friday 09 October 2009 06:25:51 pm David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > > Any reason that the nut package (network ups tools) isn't being packaged > with the documentation (release notes, upgrade notes, etc.) or the web > interface (cgi/html) files? Just curious? >

Re: [arch-general] nut package - no docs or cgi interface??

2009-10-09 Thread David C. Rankin
On Friday 09 October 2009 11:05:09 pm Allan McRae wrote: > > File a bug report/feature request. > > Allan > Done: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16554 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update

2009-10-09 Thread David C. Rankin
vncserver/vncviewer will not even start kde. I get the error: "Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation." when I open the vncviewer window. What other logs might help? 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] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update

2009-10-09 Thread David C. Rankin
On Saturday 10 October 2009 12:25:41 am David C. Rankin wrote: > On Friday 09 October 2009 06:24:06 am Jan de Groot wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 12:53 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > > > After the latest kernel update, I cannot start X for the Arch box I > > &

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update

2009-10-09 Thread David C. Rankin
tel" (II) UnloadModule: "vgahw" (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvgahw.so (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. Please also che

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update

2009-10-11 Thread David C. Rankin
beg for more help :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] nut package - no docs or cgi interface??

2009-10-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On Saturday 10 October 2009 02:40:06 am Tom K wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > On Friday 09 October 2009 11:05:09 pm Allan McRae wrote: > >> File a bug report/feature request. > >> > >> Allan > > > > Done: > > > > http://bugs.archlinu

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update

2009-10-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:10:15 am David C. Rankin wrote: > The strange part is that if that is the problem, something changed > with the 10/8 update. For many months, this box with the intel card just > worked... I'll report back after reading through the wiki an

[arch-general] pacman error: config file ../mirrorlist, line 193: directive 'Server' not recognized

2009-10-14 Thread David C. Rankin
s just the first sever in mirrorlist: 192 # United States 193 Server = http://mirrors.gigenet.com/archlinux/$repo/os/i686 194 Server = http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/i686 Any ideas? The pacman.log.bz2 and messages.log.bz2 for the install are here: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archl

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update

2009-10-14 Thread David C. Rankin
On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:33:57 am Jan Spakula wrote: > Excerpts from David C. Rankin's message of So Okt 11 10:16:57 +0200 2009: > > On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:10:15 am David C. Rankin wrote: > > I'm back already. The wiki page must be out of date. It says to

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-14 Thread David C. Rankin
ny horror > stories around the net about how bad this has broken peoples boxes. > > Can you let us all know when you have resolved it and how you resolve it > please? > > Cheers, > > Dusty. > Will do Dusty! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLL

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-14 Thread David C. Rankin
) I have updated everything, and I still get the black screen of death. On boot, you can tell that X tries to start, the screen flashes, but then BAM back to the terminal screen. Latest logs: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/Xorg.0.log.1014 dmesg (bzipped) http://www.3

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update

2009-10-14 Thread David C. Rankin
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 02:57:58 pm Loui Chang wrote: > > /etc/modprobe.conf is deprecated. > /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf is used instead. > Thanks Loui! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Fac

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update

2009-10-14 Thread David C. Rankin
On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:33:57 am Jan Spakula wrote: > Excerpts from David C. Rankin's message of So Okt 11 10:16:57 +0200 2009: > > On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:10:15 am David C. Rankin wrote: > > I'm back already. The wiki page must be out of date. It says to

Re: [arch-general] pacman error: config file ../mirrorlist, line 193: directive 'Server' not recognized

2009-10-14 Thread David C. Rankin
g] needs to be uncommented too > I have a feeling you are RIGHT -- as usual ;-) 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] pacman error: config file ../mirrorlist, line 193: directive 'Server' not recognized

2009-10-15 Thread David C. Rankin
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 04:21:04 pm Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:18 PM, David C. Rankin > > wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 October 2009 01:38:30 pm Aaron Griffin wrote: > >> I have a feeling you uncommented something (testing?) in > >> /etc/

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-15 Thread David C. Rankin
post a new set of log files. Thanks again. Hopefully we can get this fixed. -- 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] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-15 Thread David C. Rankin
om/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/dmidecode.txt latest Xorg.0.log is here: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/Xorg.0.log If you have any other suggestions or ideas, please 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) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-15 Thread David C. Rankin
may hold more information here: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/rc.conf http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/mkinitcpio.conf http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/menu.lst Let me know if I can post anything else that might help

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update

2009-10-15 Thread David C. Rankin
ed X to fail. > I had to get a new updated driver and reinstall and it. > > Tom B > Tom, Thanks for the idea. I'll try anything at this point. I'll remove the xf86- video-intel package and reinstall it and see if that help. I'll report back. -- David C. Ran

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-15 Thread David C. Rankin
On Thursday 15 October 2009 01:19:25 pm Xavier wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:08 PM, David C. Rankin > > wrote: > > latest Xorg.0.log is here: > > > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/Xorg.0.log > > I don't see any errors in

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-15 Thread David C. Rankin
On Thursday 15 October 2009 01:19:25 pm Xavier wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:08 PM, David C. Rankin > > wrote: > > latest Xorg.0.log is here: > > > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/Xorg.0.log > > I don't see any errors in

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