Answered: NFTables Coming To Arch?

Just learned from the Internet Storm Center that the the kernel back in the 3.10 stream had the netfilter project merged via the new nftables project. Checked the changelog and sure enough it's there.
I've just searched for anything to do with the change including the new nft userspace controller program and found nothing. If you can't tell I'm eager to play with the feature.
I was wondering if anyone else knew of this and if we'll be getting it soon. I could put together an AUR package but seeing that it's a kernel feature and the way the netfilter project is moving, I'd hate to duplicate work.
More Info: http://www.netfilter.org/projects/nftables/
EDIT: After talking to a friend he informs me that it isn't really ready. It's still in heavy development and will be going 'mainstream' in the 3.13 kernel according to Phoronix.
Article: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … px=MTQ5MDU
Last edited by pilotkeller (2013-10-23 13:59:54)

+1 on eagerness to follow the project.
The howto (yes, also linked from the project url) is a great write up: https://home.regit.org/netfilter-en/nft … ick-howto/

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Last edited by Nameless One (2007-08-10 07:08:38)

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The name of the directory you placed the driver in contains spaces. That is why you get the no rule to make target GLX error.
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install share/applications/nvidia-settings.desktop $startdir/pkg/usr/share/applications/
# fix nvidia .desktop file
sed -e 's:__UTILS_PATH__:/usr/bin:' -e 's:__PIXMAP_PATH__:/usr/share/pixmaps:' -i $startdir/pkg/usr/share/applications/nvidia-settings.desktop
install share/pixmaps/nvidia-settings.png $startdir/pkg/usr/share/pixmaps/
install X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers
install X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so.$pkgver $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions
install -m755 bin/nvidia-{settings,xconfig,bug-report.sh} $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/
cd $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/;
ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so.$pkgver libGL.so
ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so.$pkgver libGL.so.1
ln -s /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.$pkgver libGLcore.so.1
ln -s /usr/lib/libnvidia-cfg.so.$pkgver libnvidia-cfg.so.1
ln -s /usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.$pkgver libnvidia-tls.so.1
cd $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions;
ln -s /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.$pkgver libglx.so
install $startdir/src/NVIDIA-Linux-${ARCH}-${_nver}-pkg0/LICENSE $startdir/pkg/usr/share/licenses/nvidia/
find $startdir/pkg/usr -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
# phew :)
Last edited by kappa (2007-08-09 11:14:42)

[SOLVED] Audio setup troubles with usb headphones and built-in sound

Hello,
I Just started using Arch about a month ago after going through many Debian and Ubuntu variants. After all my frustrations with apt pinning to get working 10bit video playback, only to have everything else uninstalled by crappy dependency checking, I am extremely happy with how easy it was in Arch.
Now I am having difficulties perfecting my audio setup. Almost everything else is set up to satisfactory levels but I have yet to bring the sound to the same standard. With just ALSA my built in audio works, but defaults to the unused hdmi on my nvidia graphics. I have managed to get it to switch at some point but with ALSA alone I could never get my usb headset to work at all.
By using pulseaudio as well I was able to get simutaneous playback, which is ideal, but had choppiness and other issues with just the usb headset. I followed some instructions found on the arch wiki and other places on the net for choppiness in both ALSA and pulse and tried the fixes listed in various combinations. I ended up with outcomes such as pulse not starting, no sound at all, creepy ticking in usb and perfect sound on speakers, and my current situation of perfect sound on speaker and acceptable but tinny sound on usb which degrades over time requiring restart.
Is anyone able to give any advice or point me to any guides I may have overlooked?
Setting up sound from scratch is something I have never done before coming to Arch, so I don't know what commands are useful for audio specifically, but learning is one of the reasons I decided on Arch. As for commands I do know, lspci and lsusb, relevant entries are as follows:
spricc ~ $ lspci | grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF104 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 1532:000e Razer USA, Ltd
USB device is a Razer Megalodon headset, NVIDIA Audio is of no interest to me, unless it is not what i think it is.
Thanks to anyone who takes the time to read this.
Last edited by spricc (2012-03-23 15:21:11)

I managed to find a solution.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu … oppy_sound
Following this exactly didnt work before, but setting the sample rate to 192000 instead seems to have done the trick

PCI device numbering whine

Anyone else use PCI expansion slots for their hard drives? I have a hard drive (IDE) connected through a PCI card. My primary hard drive is also IDE and connected straight into the motherboard. I have another IDE storage drive.
Back in my Ubuntu days, my PCI data drive and normal storage drive would (literally) swap every few reboots, which was quite annoying. After coming to Arch, I noticed that my PCI drive was consistantly sda, primary hdd was sdb, and storage drive was sdc. Always, which was nice. I thought it must've been some Ubuntu/Debian-specific patch that was causing my trouble.
I got a bit of a blast from the past today after I upgraded to kernel 2.6.25. Upon reboot, I got a kernel panic because my root file sytem wasn't found. I thought it'd been a faulty install (for other reasons) and lamented my multiple re-installation of the kernel, which changed my fallback image. So I booted my laptop, plugged my primary hdd in via USB, and used pacman to install the kernel (with --root) to the drive. I plugged it back into my desktop, but got nothing.
Frustrated, I started searching the forums, then, had a flashback. On a hunch, I rebooted and changed my Grub entry to pass the parameter root=/dev/sda2 instead of /dev/sdb2. Here I am.
Reminds me of the old joke...
Being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters and architects. Every morning when you wake up, the house is a little different. Maybe there is a new turret, or some walls have moved. Or perhaps someone has temporarily removed the floor under your bed.

Realtek Card Reader:
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Newbie experience

hello Archers,
I am not a linux expert, I installed a bunch of linux distros in the past but I can be easily defined a newbie. I recently built a new desktop PC and decided to completely switch to linux (no dual boot and no VM ). I tried many distros before landing on archlinux but now I have a fully functional, light and fast desktop environment.
I needed 3 days to:
- understand archlinux "philosophy" (day 1);
- install the base system, cpufreq, gnome, alsa (day 1);
- install compiz fusion, extras, eye-candies, plugins, printers, camera (day 2);
- learn to build my own packages, update HPLIP package from 1.7.4 (in the repos) to 2.2.6 (latest stable version) (today)
Compared to ready-to-go distributions like Ubuntu it's a lot of time, but probably now that I know arch better I would need no more than a couple of hours, plus -repeat- I am quite a newbie.
What's the meaning of this post? Well, just wanted to encourage users evaluating the possibility of installing arch linux to give it a spin, it's not (just) a distro for gurus, anyone can install it and it gives great satisfaction. It's one of the few distros that lets you configure the system exactly the way you want it and it's not bloated with dozens useless applications/deamons/modules/etc.
I don't understand why arch is not more "mainstream" (and reading the forums the developers seem proud of it), anyway to me this is the way linux should be.
Last edited by Matt3o (2007-09-13 15:54:42)

You live and Florence and you're running Arch? You must be in heaven.
Like you, I tried most of the mainstream distributions before coming to Arch. I didn't expect to but I've become a dedicated Arch user ever since. I'm not even the type of person who likes to build things themself (I'd rather have everything I need installed for me) but I've found that the system runs much faster and cleaner when you do it yourself and you usually know what's going on at all times, so I'm very happy I did it. And the best thing is: I don't have to do it all over again when there's a new release, just a simple pacman -Syu does the trick.
Good luck with the rest of your endeavors!

Running program at startup [as ordinary user]

Hi,
I want to be able to run a command at system startup as an ordinary, non-priveledged user. In FreeBSD (where I came from before coming to Arch), there is a @reboot directive in crontab, allowing me to set up command in my crontab file to be run at startup, just as any other cronjob (only at startup instead of at a specific time).
The cron that comes with Arch doesn't seem to support the @reboot directive. Is there another simple mechanisms available for ordnary users?
Svein Halvor
Last edited by sveinhal (2008-12-03 22:31:52)

There's a few things you could do. I run all my startup apps in my xinitrc and the like, so I don't need functionality like this.
Possibility 1: Create a "framework" for this. In /etc/rc.local, add something like:
cd /home
for user in *; do
if [ -x "/home/$user/.rc.local" ]; then
su $user -c "/home/$user/.rc.local"
fi
done
Alternatively do the same thing for rc.shutdown.local
Possibility 2: Use a different cron. I think we have 3 floating around somewhere. If not feel free to package one that works to your liking and stick it in the AUR
Possibility 3: Create an /etc/rc.d/ script that drops privileges to your user and runs all the apps you need
... there's lots more I'm sure ...

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