Arch Linux (and general Linux) graphics and artists community

TheBodziO has started a discussion about the (Arch) linux graphics community. That gives me an idea. It would be nice to create an online (sub)community dedicated to graphics, DTP, and photography centered around Arch Linux. For now, I can only offer some ideas, my experience in graphics and DTP, and lots of hosting space on a non-dedicated server.
The ideas for the (sub)community:
* an open forum for discussion, not just Arch-related but 'graphics on Linux' in general
* a wiki for Linux artists
* a gallery (d'oh!)
* an Arch LiveCD for graphics artists
* a dedicated graphics repository
If you have suggestions and/or are interested to participate, please post below.

For start I want to say that I'm content that the new thread have been started to discuss the matters of cooperation of designers and developers communities. It's a good sign.
As foxbunny said the whole idea is *much* more than another art repository. I thought about creating a common ground - a meeting point - for both developers and designers. Developers have the skills to code. Designers have needs and ideas how to speed up/ease their work. Developers create tools that designers use and designers provide feedback and ideas. What I think free software world lacks is an organized way to provide the pan-project and pan-distro connection between these groups.
To illustrate the whole thing on a simple example: let's assume that I'd love to have a possibility to lock some operations on elements of my project with password. It's because my work will be given to someone else who will be responsible for placing a text in proper places on the design. I don't want to see him to move or delete something accidentally. It's possible that also some other designers will find that feature useful too. Then maybe some developer will be willing to implement that. The trouble is, that if I propose that feature and encourage its implementation in gimp, I would have to repeat the same process for scribus for example. But the idea is common. I want to state it once and see who will catch the bait . To some extent it will promote deeper integration between different projects.
Today graphic designers have the tools for editing vector graphics, raster graphics some page design tools. These tools often use the same methodologies! There are bezier curves in gimp, inkscape, scribus... whatever yet they are implemented redundantly. Perhaps thanks to one thoughts sharing panel it will be possible to come with some common solutions. Maybe some common libraries or platforms will emerge in time? I think that mentioned meeting point will keep us close to unix philosophy: do it for a single purpose and do it well. In other words I think that it will allow us to have powerful building blocks on which something even better than today state of the art apps could be build.
I want to at least start some discussion about the issue. Hopefully this will be only a beginning.
First I want to ask: do you believe that a subcommunity of archers that would be responsible for communication between the developers and designers would be useful? If so then we could more precisely state our goals and code of conduct.
Designers experience is of the essence if we want to make free software usable for demanding "art" community.
Last edited by TheBodziO (2007-10-28 20:35:15)

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Mar 07 18:38:21 localhost systemd[1]: Started Getty on tty4.
Mar 07 18:38:27 localhost login[503]: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user asadali by LOGIN(uid=0)
Mar 07 18:38:27 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Session c4 of user asadali.
Mar 07 18:38:27 localhost systemd-logind[207]: New session c4 of user asadali.
Mar 07 18:38:27 localhost systemd[1]: Started Session c4 of user asadali.
Mar 07 18:38:27 localhost login[503]: LOGIN ON tty4 BY asadali
Mar 07 18:40:43 localhost kernel: usb 1-2: USB disconnect, device number 2
Mar 07 18:40:43 localhost systemd-udevd[163]: error opening USB device 'descriptors' file
Mar 07 18:40:43 localhost colord[374]: /usr/lib/colord/colord-sane: error while loading shared libraries: libsane.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Mar 07 18:40:43 localhost kernel: usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 6 using xhci_hcd
Mar 07 18:40:43 localhost colord[374]: /usr/lib/colord/colord-sane: error while loading shared libraries: libsane.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Mar 07 18:40:43 localhost colord[374]: /usr/lib/colord/colord-sane: error while loading shared libraries: libsane.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Mar 07 18:40:43 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ether
Mar 07 18:40:43 localhost kernel: rndis_host 1-2:1.0 usb0: register 'rndis_host' at usb-0000:00:14.0-2, RNDIS device, 02:56:06:5d:63:36
Mar 07 18:40:43 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver rndis_host
Mar 07 18:40:43 localhost colord[374]: /usr/lib/colord/colord-sane: error while loading shared libraries: libsane.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Mar 07 18:40:43 localhost kernel: rndis_host 1-2:1.0 enp0s20u2: renamed from usb0
Mar 07 18:40:49 localhost sudo[526]: asadali : TTY=tty4 ; PWD=/home/asadali ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/systemctl restart dhcpcd
I only posted a piece of it.
By the way, I got this file by using startX (becuase otherwise i didnt have permissions), used > to output it to a file, mounted a usb flash drive, copied it to flash drive, used a windows computer to copy the file to my ubuntu laptop (because the folder wouldn't show up in the ubuntu computer) and then posted it here. There has to be a better way to post a debug manage on here.

I am using jboss 4.2, java5.0 and Fedora Linux Enterprise Version 4.0 with

Hi,
I am using jboss 4.2, java5.0 and Fedora Linux Enterprise Version 4.0 with kernel 2.6 and NPTL 2.3.4
I am using open source network chart generation API provided by geosoft ( http://geosoft.no/graphics/). This API generates chart into swing window.
I wrote the code to change this swing window into web browser compatible jpeg image. I used thread to generate the image. It is working fine, for one user and no other processes running on the application.
ISSUE:- When more than 5 users hit the application at the same time, some images get generated, some donot, there is no fixed trend to this image generation process.
I analyzed CPU timing, it is using 100% CPU and after the images are generated / not generated, the CU usage goes down to zero.
When I used the same code with Linux 9.0 (kernel 2.4, NPTL � 0.6), rest remain the same, it is working perfectly fine with more than 10 users, with all images being generated within 30 secs
Can somebody help me out to figure out whether it is a kernel issue / NPTL issue? Does it have something to do with thread processing?
Code for network chart generation :-
NetworkGenerator ntw=new NetworkGenerator();
BufferedImage img;
ntw.setVectRootNodes(vectRootNodes);
ntw.setHashChildNodeNames(hashNodeData);
ntw.setHashNodeRelation(hashNodeRelation);
ntw.setHashNodesCreated(hashNodesCreated);
ntw.setSupplyChainBean(supplyChainBean);
Thread t=new Thread(ntw);
t.setPriority(Thread.MAX_PRIORITY);
t.start();
try{
t.join();
catch(Exception e)
DebugManager.doDebug(className.toString(),e);
if(t!=null)
System.out.println(t.getState().name());
System.out.println(t.isAlive());
public class NetworkGenerator extends JFrame implements Runnable{
public void run()
//call the garbage collector
System.gc();
// Create the graphic canvas
window = new no.geosoft.cc.graphics.GWindow();
window.getCanvas().setSize(screenWidth,screenHt );
// Create the GUI
JPanel topLevel = new JPanel();
topLevel.setBackground(new Color(255,255,255)) ;
topLevel.setLayout (new BorderLayout());
getContentPane().add (topLevel);
topLevel.add (window.getCanvas(), BorderLayout.CENTER);
topLevel.setVisible(true);
// Create scene with default viewport
scene = new no.geosoft.cc.graphics.GScene(window, "My Scene"+ (new Date().getTime()));
no.geosoft.cc.graphics.GStyle style = new no.geosoft.cc.graphics.GStyle();
style.setForegroundColor (new Color (0, 0, 0));
style.setBackgroundColor (new Color (255, 255, 255));
style.setFont (new Font ("Arial", Font.BOLD, 10));
scene.setStyle (style);
int xPos=minY ;
int yPos=0;
int noofChild=vectRootNodes.size();
int dev=(screenHt -minY )/(noofChild+1);
int newDev=Math.round(dev-(dev/5));
//log.debug("---------noofChild-----------------------------------"+noofChild);
if(!hashNodesCreated.isEmpty())
for(int i=0;i<noofChild;i++)
yPos=minY +(dev*(i+1));
String nodeName = vectRootNodes.get(i).toString();
log.debug("root nodename===="+nodeName+" with ypos :"+yPos);
//log.debug("nodeName=="+nodeName);
//create root nodes
Node rootNode = createChildNode( nodeName,minY,screenHt,xPos, yPos ,newDev,1);
scene.add(rootNode);
log.debug("screenWidth ===="+screenWidth );
// if(screenWidth>minExtXval)
// minExtXval = screenWidth;
// w2 o
// * |
// * |
// * |
// * w0 o-------o w1
double w0[] = {0.0,screenHt ,0.0};
double w1[] = {screenWidth,screenHt,0.0};
double w2[] = {0.0,0.0,0.0};
scene.setWorldExtent (w0, w1, w2);
this.pack();
Thanks in advance.

How do I do that as I checked for it in utilities and is not there? Thanks in advance

Screen lags with catalyst and kernel linux-3.10.6-2

so I have been using arch for about a month now and it has been working fine. But since I installed linux-3.10.7-1 my screen started lagging.
when moving windows around the screen lags and when scrolling down in thunar it lags very much.
And I can't configure my monitors anymore in catalyst control center. same thing with the latest kernel: linux-3.10.9-1
so I downgraded to linux-3.10.6-2 for now and everything works fine.
catalyst version is catalyst 13.4-15, catalyst-utils 13.4-3
xorg version is xorg-server 1.13.4-1
I'm using openbox btw version = openbox 3.5.2-1
GPU = AMD Radeon HD 7850
Any idea what might cause this ?

Radioactiveman wrote:
Is the fglrx module loaded at all?
And what's the output of 'fglrxinfo'?
Most likely the fglrx module is incompatible with the recent kernel version.
A simple solution for this problem is using catalyst-hook.
THIS. You should do this because the kernel module in the catalyst package itself is compiled against the kernel Vi0L0 has on his/her system and there is no way to compile one for later kernels without installing the package Radioactiveman suggested.

[SOLVED] Dual monitors and raid - linux newb

Hi
I'm raginaot and I'll probably be asking a lot of dumb questions here in the near future
I just decided to say goodbye to windows for a while. Been wasting too much time gaming and it was either - switch to linux or - sell my computer and move to the desert. I'm gonna try the former first and see how it goes.
I managed to install arch and get gnome up and running with the help of the most awesome linux install guide I have ever seen and I installed the xf86-video-ati driver package but I'm having trouble getting it to recognise my 2 monitors.
I'll list my hardware specs before I go any further:
CPU: i7 920
RAM: 12GB (3x4) Mushkin Silverline 1333MHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte EX58-UD3R (rev 1.6)
GPU: ATI HD5870 1GB
Souncard: Auzentech X-fi forte
Monitors: Samsung 2693HM and Samsung 226BW
now the monitors seem to be stuck in mirrored mode, both showing the same image at 1280*1024 resolution
when I try to set them both to on and their native resolutions (1920*1200 and 1680*1050) in the display settings I get a message that says:
"the selected configuration for displays could not be applied
required virtual size does not fit available size: requested=(3600, 1200), minimum=(320, 200), maximum=(1920, 1920"
But when I unplug the 22" display, I can set the 26" to native res just fine and vice versa.
Now to the second issue...
I have 2 1TB drives in raid0, but in fdisk -l they appear as 2 seperate 1TB drives instead of 1 big 2TB like they're supposed to (see output below).
I guess I have to mount them in some special way, but I have no idea how. The raid worked right away in linux mint.
fdisk wrote:
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000203804160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1c7fba32
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb2 13 34421 276377600 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb3 34421 243202 1677035520 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb876c595
Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by raginaot (2010-11-24 03:29:46)

Bregol wrote:
Glad you were able to figure out the RAID part - I can't really help you with that. As far as the dual monitor setup, I would suspect that you will need to do some stuff with the xorg config to get it working. I would say that xorg.log would be the first thing to look at - to see what is limiting the modes available to X. Maybe post the xorg.log and your x configuration
My post in this thread might give a bit of background on how X comes up with what resolutions it lets you choose.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=101547
thanks
I pasted the xorg logs here: Xorg log 0: http://pastebin.com/tHPqWVaw and Xorg log 1: http://pastebin.com/nPhdpCE0
and here is the xorg.conf in /etc/X11 (hope that's the right file..)
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "record"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
Load "dri"
Load "dri2"
Load "dbe"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 470 300 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "SAM"
ModelName "SyncMaster"
HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: : integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
### <percent>: "<f>%"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac8Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "BusType" # [<str>]
#Option "CPPIOMode" # [<bool>]
#Option "CPusecTimeout" # 
#Option "AGPMode" # 
#Option "AGPFastWrite" # [<bool>]
#Option "AGPSize" # 
#Option "GARTSize" # 
#Option "RingSize" # 
#Option "BufferSize" # 
#Option "EnableDepthMoves" # [<bool>]
#Option "EnablePageFlip" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoBackBuffer" # [<bool>]
#Option "DMAForXv" # [<bool>]
#Option "FBTexPercent" # 
#Option "DepthBits" # 
#Option "PCIAPERSize" # 
#Option "AccelDFS" # [<bool>]
#Option "IgnoreEDID" # [<bool>]
#Option "CustomEDID" # [<str>]
#Option "DisplayPriority" # [<str>]
#Option "PanelSize" # [<str>]
#Option "ForceMinDotClock" # <freq>
#Option "ColorTiling" # [<bool>]
#Option "VideoKey" # 
#Option "RageTheatreCrystal" # 
#Option "RageTheatreTunerPort" # 
#Option "RageTheatreCompositePort" # 
#Option "RageTheatreSVideoPort" # 
#Option "TunerType" # 
#Option "RageTheatreMicrocPath" # <str>
#Option "RageTheatreMicrocType" # <str>
#Option "ScalerWidth" # 
#Option "RenderAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SubPixelOrder" # [<str>]
#Option "ClockGating" # [<bool>]
#Option "VGAAccess" # [<bool>]
#Option "ReverseDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "LVDSProbePLL" # [<bool>]
#Option "AccelMethod" # <str>
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "ConnectorTable" # <str>
#Option "DefaultConnectorTable" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultTMDSPLL" # [<bool>]
#Option "TVDACLoadDetect" # [<bool>]
#Option "ForceTVOut" # [<bool>]
#Option "TVStandard" # <str>
#Option "IgnoreLidStatus" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultTVDACAdj" # [<bool>]
#Option "Int10" # [<bool>]
#Option "EXAVSync" # [<bool>]
#Option "ATOMTVOut" # [<bool>]
#Option "R4xxATOM" # [<bool>]
#Option "ForceLowPowerMode" # [<bool>]
#Option "DynamicPM" # [<bool>]
#Option "NewPLL" # [<bool>]
#Option "ZaphodHeads" # <str>
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
BusID "PCI:3:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Not sure what to look for here...
The "#DisplaySize 470 300" line looks like something.
I only have the 26" screen plugged in at the moment, if that matters. Does the xorg log change it self when I plug in another screen?

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Hi everyone,
I have a Portege R100 (PPR10L-13G10P). I'm trying to install Linux and when attempting to access the function keys (F6) the computer doesn't allow me to... any ideas why?
Also what is the latest BIOS version for this computer? And where can it be downloaded?
Thanks in advance!
Terrence

Hi
At first I must say that Toshiba doesn't support Linux in general so you are alone with this problem.
Hopefully someone will be able to assist you a bit.
If you want to find out the latest BIOS version just enter BIOS settings and check it out.
Newer BIOS version will not help you at all so my opinion is that you should not change anything.
Anyway, bio download page is - http://www.toshiba.eu/innovation/download_bios.jsp
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Hello,
I just joined today. I have a question about how I should go about updating certain things in my R51.
I greatly favor Linux over Windows-- I use the Linux distro MEPIS 8.5 in one desktop tower, and the Linux distro sidux in another desktop tower. I just bought an R51 (type 2895-AU3) Thinkpad a few days ago- this is my first laptop. While I wasn't given any OS disc(s), it came loaded with WinXP. Shortly after getting home with the R51, I looked up what updates are available for it from Lenovo. For WinXP, there are a number of them but when I changed the OS option to Linux, only 3 turned up, as I recall, for the HDD and for the CD-RW/DVD. I'm wondering if, while I still have WinXP installed, I should update the BIOS and various other things for WinXP and then wipe the WindowsXP and install MEPIS.
When I ran my MEPIS live CD in the R51 (and a Linux live CD doesn't install Linux, yet), I noticed that the boot info said the BIOS was outdated (and maybe it said it needs updating?) The BIOS is currently version 1.21 (1VET63WW) and is dated 21 Feb. 2005.
Are there so many Lenovo-supplied updates for WinXP because that OS needs them in order for that OS to be optimized for use today, while so few updates for Linux because things are basically OK for Linux (except for the three I found in my seach)?
So I'm asking: Should I first do the Lenovo updates (BIOS, etc.) for WinXP, then wipe the WinXP and install MEPIS, doing later the Linux updates from Lenovo?
[A short while ago I read about some bad update bug offered in a Lenovo BIOS update for some unspecified ThinkPad. I of course want to avoid anything that makes my laptop unuseable.]
Thanks

If I'm not too late, Just install Ubuntu. Not sure if it's the only one or not, But it can be installed inside windows like an program. When it boots you will have the option to choose windows or ubuntu. Best way to install it is to load the iso with any image loaders (poweriso, magiciso, deamontools) It will install faster than a burned CD. Also disconnect from the internet before install. Or it will install from the internet which will be over 30mins long. Ubuntu is very easy to use.
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Adobe AIR on RedHat and SUSE Linux

Hi,
I am trying to install AIR 2.5 runtime on RedHat Linux and SUSE Linux . When I try to do it on RedHat, I get the following error:
error while loading shared libraries: libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Can anyone help me fix it. I assume I will get something on the same lines on SUSE as well? Also, has anyone successfully done what I am trying to do? I can see that Adobe AIR page doesn't mention RHEL and SUSE (but openSUSE) supported, but still.
Thank you!
-Amit

The only version that works on RHEL 5 is 2.0.4. Check this thread for more details:
http://www.cherpec.com/2010/12/adobe-air-2-5-1-glibc_2-7-error/
It works as I tested on RHEL 5. But to ship AIR heelp to customers, this is for sure not a solution.

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Oracle10G and oracle11gr1 for windows and Linux ,I am unable to get them .
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Sanjeev Sen

Oracle10G NOT SUPPORTED ANYMORE,NO SOFTWARE AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD TOO
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