Arch Repositories

When packages are updated in the main repository, are they simultaneously updated in all Arch pacman mirrors? When I used Zenwalk, there was a European/French server that always was more up-to-date, so I could conceivably mess up my system by mixing mirrors.
The main reason I'm asking is because the EasyNews (Arizona) server was unable to send me updates this morning, so I rearranged my mirrors with iBiblio first, which appeared to work fine.

I switched all of mine to Ibiblio. The one problem with the current Arch installer is that, by selecting a preferred mirror, all others are commented out in the various mirrors files, which means there's no fallback if one mirror's down.

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Arch repositories are running out of packages ? pacman fails....

this is what i get when i try to "pacman -S xine-ui":
Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages from current...
error: failed retrieving file 'xine-lib-1.1.6-2.1.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.belnet.be : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'xine-ui-0.99.5-1.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.belnet.be : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'xine-lib-1.1.6-2.1.pkg.tar.gz' from mir2.archlinuxfr.org : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'xine-ui-0.99.5-1.pkg.tar.gz' from mir2.archlinuxfr.org : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'xine-lib-1.1.6-2.1.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.hosteurope.de : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'xine-ui-0.99.5-1.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.hosteurope.de : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'xine-lib-1.1.6-2.1.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.parrswood.manchester.sch.uk : Connection timed out
error: failed retrieving file 'xine-ui-0.99.5-1.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.parrswood.manchester.sch.uk : Connection timed out
error: failed retrieving file 'xine-lib-1.1.6-2.1.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.ntua.gr : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'xine-ui-0.99.5-1.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.ntua.gr : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'xine-lib-1.1.6-2.1.pkg.tar.gz' from archlinux.freeside.ru : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'xine-ui-0.99.5-1.pkg.tar.gz' from archlinux.freeside.ru : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'xine-lib-1.1.6-2.1.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.gigabit.nu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'xine-ui-0.99.5-1.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.gigabit.nu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'xine-lib-1.1.6-2.1.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.hosteurope.de : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'xine-ui-0.99.5-1.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.hosteurope.de : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
warning: failed to retrieve some files from current
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
[root@arch arnuld]#
7 different repositories and xine-ui is not available from anyone of them. some days ago i had the same troubles in installing gtk2 which was not available from 10 different repositories :-(
what exactly is happening with Arch repositories ?

Just do an Syu, and it should work out.
Some packages have been moving from current to extra.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Package_Cleanup

OpenGL math class thats in Arch repositories / AUR?

Hey,
Doing a university project on Arch (actually larch, because it has to be portable to other computers..)
Anyone knows of a good OpenGL math class (C++) thats in the repositories / AUR?
That math class should have an API as similar to OpenGL's as possible.
My goal is to do matrix manipulations out side of OpenGL (glRotate, glTranslate etc. - but BEFORE giving the matrix to OpenGL).
Thanks a lot
fiod

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/eigen/
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/lapack/
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26875
Choose your poison.

Arch Repositories: VMWare

Why not to add VMWare Workstation to official repositories or ABS?

As far as I know, what you find in the official repos is only what the devs use themselves. You can still find WMWare in the AUR though.

Packages installed are not the same version as the arch repositories

Hi, i just installed arch and kde with it and realized that i don't get the latest version of KDE as listed under "packages" in this website.
I get KDE SC 4.4.x instead of 4.5.x
I also noted that a lot of packages listed in here throw a "cant find package", for example bluedevil. I tried pacman -Syy and still no good. Says KDE 4.4.x is the latest.

tataraperz wrote:thanks, this forum is so much better than ubuntus
Allow me to explain jasonwryan's post to you, please read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … troduction and note especially the line which starts with "When asking for help..."

Arch based distro - same repository?

hey,
i got a question.
let's say i'm making a new ,archlinux based distro. must i use own repositorys then or can i just use archs repositories? i won't really make a new distro (no time for that) but i always asked myself this question.
pure curiosity.

Ιf it's rolling, I guess there is no problem, but you need to make it clear (on the distro site for example) that the most of work done is thanks to the Archlinux devs, if you are gonna use the official repos.
Chakra-project for example is Arch+KDEmod, thus it currently* uses the official repos.
*they are gonna make their distro, afaik, non-rolling.

Arch programs from repos and multithread support

Support of how many CPU cores/threads maintainers compile programs with? Programs which are available from Arch repositories.

Mr. Alex wrote:
graysky wrote:The programs don't have specific support AFAIK
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg
The MAKEFLAGS option can be used to specify additional options for make. Users with multi-core/multi-processor systems can specify the number of jobs to run simultaneously. Generally -j2, plus 1 for each additional core/processor is an adequate choice. Optimizing for multiple cores can sometimes increase compiling performance, shortening compile times. However, be warned that occasionally using anything but the default can cause compilation problems, though many have agreed that -j3 is fairly safe to use for the majority of packages.
This only affects how many threads that make will spawn. It's compile time only and won't change the behaviour of the resulting binary one bit.
A single threaded app will always be single threaded, even if your compile forked off 30 threads when it compiled it.
Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2010-12-20 16:16:00)

Arch Kernel Release Cycle

Hi guys,
I recently started compiling my own kernels, but I still use the arch packages as a guideline. For example I use the patches provided by Arch Linux, and at the moment I stay with the version which is in the arch repositories.
So for example if I want to compile 2.6.35.7, the PKGBUILD I use just downloads the source for 2.6.35, and the patch for .7 from Arch. Would it be 'possible' to use the stock kernel patches? What is different in the Arch packages (I know I can just diff, but why are there Arch specific patches)?
Arch gernerally updates the kernel rather fast. But some versions are skipped. Is there any policy on that? For example at the moment 2.6.36 is out, yet Arch packages 2.6.35.8 as the latest.
Thanks and kind regards
Julian

2.6.36 is in [testing]. Kernels usually do not make it to [core] until the around .2 version.
The Arch specific patches are rather small... http://projects.archlinux.org/linux-2.6 … ee/patches AUFS2 and some logo replacements.

Arch Newbie Questions

1. How many developers does Arch have?
2. Approximately how many users does Arch have?
3. How many packages are available in the Arch repositories?
4. How good is the pacman dependency mechanism? For example, after the base system is installed, can I install k3b (the KDE CD/DVD writer application) and expect pacman to install all needed dependencies including X windows with a minimal window manager, the necessary KDE libs, etc?

2ManyDogs wrote:
I don't know when you last installed Gentoo, and this may have been true when you installed it, but according to the current Gentoo documentation, twm does not "come with X" -- twm must be emerged separately.
I also just checked "equery depgraph icewm" on my Gentoo machine, and xorg-server is not listed as a dependency for icewm. Emerging icewm would not "install the X server."
And I would stack the Arch wiki up against the excellent Gentoo docs any day. I use both, and both are very good, but I have never had any trouble configuring Arch using the wiki.
One reason I am taking a close look at Arch is because when I Google for info about Linux problems, the Arch Wiki has come up with some useful solutions several times.
I have not installed Gentoo in some time; however, I have installed Sabayon (a Gentoo derivative) last month. The way I use it is to install from their SpinBase iso. It gives you a basic commandline installation with no GUI (it takes 5 minutes to install). From there I install 95 programs (all in one command) and it installs a total of 725 packages and I then configue my system.
It installs the Xorg server without me explicitly telling it to. I did not check twm the last time I installed Sabayon but did use twm on Sabayon fairly recently, maybe during the summer.
I managed to get the Arch Xserver working with icewm but not without some issues. When I do something new, I just run things without any configuration changes to see what the default behavior is. I ran startx -> command not found. After some research I discovered that I needed to install xorg-xinit to get the startx program. Did that and ran startx. The X server crashed. Looking through the log, I discovered none of the drivers were loading. I installed the nv driver but it wasn't loading. I read somewhere in the docs that the vesa driver is installed by default but it wouldn't load either. I installed the vesa, fbdev and nouveau drivers. Ran startx, still none of the drivers are loading. After scratching my head for a while, I decided to check which kernel modules are loaded, maybe there is a conflict. Lo and behold! None of the modules were loaded. That is not behavior I am used to, usually the modules get loaded as needed. I manually loaded the nouveau kernel module, uninstalled all the other drivers and ran startx. The Xserver crashed again. While I was staring at the screen I noticed a different error at the bottom. It couldn't run xterm. It must be trying to run twm and xterm even though they are no longer installed by default instead of icewm. I decided to force it to run icewm by putting it in my personal .xinitrc file. I ran startx and icewm snapped up on the screen. I checked the log file and it was using the vesa driver. Now I was really confused, I had uninstalled that driver. I decided to try rebooting. Ran startx and icewm snapped up on the screen. I checked the log file and it is using the nouveau driver. Now it is working the way I expect.
A little research showed that /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc needs to be changed so that it does not try to launch twm when it is not installed and an entry for all installed WMs and DEs needs to be put in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d so the system xinitrc knows what is available.

[Solved]Are there any ipv6 sources for arch ?

I'm a arch user in Edu net, I have only 6G flows each month, so I want to find source repositories in ipv6,
are there any ipv6 sources for arch ?
Last edited by mihail (2011-10-08 15:04:54)

mihail wrote:
SidK wrote:https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/ lets you create a mirrorlist file of ipv6 hosts only
谢谢～
I don't understand your answer.
What do you mean by "source repositories"? The term 'repository' means 'a bunch of precompiled packages', Arch repositories host binaries, not source tarballs.

[SOLVED]....install Arch, for the first time, am i doing it right?

The first try, it failed at grub boot(froze with blank screen), so now I'm going to install for the 2nd time and I need your help to confirm if the grub installation procedure below is correct.. (Thinkpad x61s-64bit machine)
# mkinitcpio -p linux
# pacman -S grub-bios bash-completion os-prober
# grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/sda
# cp /usr/share/locale/en\@quot/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo /boot/grub/locale/en.mo
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
# exit
# umount -R /mnt
# reboot
..or should i just use Syslinux instead? There won't be any other OS on the disk except there's a partition i made previously(ext 4) that i used for file storage purposes(music,video,docs etc) and the said partition now reside in sda4 and do not want to delete that as ive got so much stuff in it and my external HD is full. so i'll have to install Arch on sda1/2/3.
my partitioning scheme would be 2g swap, 20g root and 30g home.
Thank you
Last edited by MrPotato (2014-01-06 04:46:08)

MrPotato wrote:
The first try, it failed at grub boot(froze with blank screen), so now I'm going to install for the 2nd time and I need your help to confirm if the grub installation procedure below is correct.. (Thinkpad x61s-64bit machine)
# mkinitcpio -p linux
# pacman -S grub-bios bash-completion os-prober
# grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/sda
# cp /usr/share/locale/en\@quot/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo /boot/grub/locale/en.mo
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
# exit
# umount -R /mnt
# reboot
..or should i just use Syslinux instead? There won't be any other OS on the disk except there's a partition i made previously(ext 4) that i used for file storage purposes(music,video,docs etc) and the said partition now reside in sda4 and do not want to delete that as ive got so much stuff in it and my external HD is full. so i'll have to install Arch on sda1/2/3.
my partitioning scheme would be 2g swap, 20g root and 30g home.
Thank you
You could just use syslinux, but i guess you just had a bad timing with your installation there are a few bugs present with grub at the moment, which are actually already fixed upstream, but not yet available from the official arch repositories. Did you notice any bug messages when running "grub-mkconfig" ? There were probably some "syntax-errors", but they can be easily fixed (https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/38234?project=1&cat[0]=31&string=grub); the method with "GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=y" works fine and you could fix it by "chrooting" into your system again from the live-installation-cd/usb. Alternatively you could enable the testing-repos for installing grub; this version works without the syntax errors, but there is another bug with multiple kernel-entries So the first way would be probably the best way to fix grub at the moment.
Last edited by tumas (2014-01-05 15:57:54)

Getting to know Arch, noticed some inconsistencies

Hi guys,
couple of days ago I decided to try out Arch Linux for the first time.
After installing a system, and adding a regular user I discovered I couldn't log in as a regular user from the virtual terminals, while ssh logins worked fine. After some digging, I discovered that the problem was the user's shell -- I assumed, incorrectly, that typing `which bash` would yield a valid path to bash to give to useradd(8), but it returns /usr/bin/bash, while /etc/shells lists only /bin/bash. Ok, I fixed that small problem quite easily. However, after these first impressions, questions popped up in my mind about some of the inconsistencies I noticed in the system defaults:
1) Why is GNU bash installed as /usr/bin/bash, then symlinked as /bin/bash, while zsh gets installed directly as /bin/zsh?
2) Why don't sshd and su (and possibly others) check if user's login shell is actually a valid shell as defined in /etc/shells?
3) Why is some of the default /etc/pam.d/* configuration structured, but most is not? For example, what's the purpose of a config file named /etc/pam.d/system-remote-login in the base install? sshd config does not include it -- actually, no PAM config file in the base includes it.
Last edited by vv (2013-02-03 13:01:31)

Ok, since I got no answers to this, I decided to try and answer my own question. What puzzled me most was why is this file called /etc/pam.d/system-remote-login even there?
Try googling for this file name. Besides Arch, you'll find that Gentoo also has a configuration file of the same name. Gentoo's /etc/pam.d/system-remote-login looks like this:
auth include system-login
account include system-login
password include system-login
session include system-login
Feel free to can compare that with your /etc/pam.d/system-remote-login.
I'll try and tell you what I think happened. Devs can feel free to can fill in any mistakes I made.
There was, let's assume, a dev, I'll call him Dev1, who created the pambase Arch package. Let's assume, without meaning to insult anyone, that this developer was just a little bit lazy, or he was short on time, and copied over files from Gentoo's pambase package as a starting point. Nothing bad in not starting from scratch, this is an open source project after all.
And Gentoo's pambase is okay-ish, I guess. It has this neat hierarchy, where, for example, you have a config file for login which adds some login(1)-specific modules, and then includes system-local-login for all four management groups that PAM provides (auth, account, password and session). system-local-login in turn, as we have seen, includes system-login for all four mgmt groups, which in turn includes system-auth, etc. Other configured local login configs, such as for logging via a DM, also include system-local-login for all mgmt groups. This design makes it easier to deploy authentication changes across all configuration -- if we would want to add a new login module for all login types, we could simply add it to system-login. A mechanism for having easy separation of local and remote login config is provided, via system-{local,remote}-login files, but it is not yet used, both files are exactly the same.
If you take a look at Arch's /etc/pam.d/, you'll see that it uses this same design.
Let's further assume that Dev1 did not provide /etc/pam.d/sshd, and that this file is a part of openssh package. Let's call the openssh package maintainer Dev2.
Here's Gentoo's /etc/pam.d/sshd:
auth include system-remote-login
account include system-remote-login
password include system-remote-login
session include system-remote-login
It again follows this simple pattern -- it just includes system-remote-login, which includes system-login. So, Gentoo has no PAM modules that are specific to ssh sessions, but if such need arises, they could be simply added to this file.
Now let's take a look at Arch's current /etc/pam.d/sshd
#%PAM-1.0
#auth required pam_securetty.so #Disable remote root
auth required pam_unix.so
auth required pam_env.so
account required pam_nologin.so
account required pam_unix.so
account required pam_time.so
password required pam_unix.so
session required pam_unix_session.so
session required pam_limits.so
session optional pam_loginuid.so
-session optional pam_ck_connector.so nox11
-session optional pam_systemd.so
Ouch. So much redundant stuff here! This file is not integrated at all with the rest of the PAM config from pambase! No includes, just flat listing of modules. Not nice at all. Not "streamlined" by a long shot.
Let's assume that Dev2, who owns the openssh package and provides the /etc/pam.d/sshd could not consult Dev1 (who owns pambase) because by that time Dev1 has left the project. Dev2 didn't bother to integrate his configuration with the rest of PAM config, he just dropped a big monolitic config file for sshd into /etc/pam.d/. And he forgot to include the PAM module that checks if the user's shell is allowed via /etc/shells. He wouldn't have made this omission if he integrated his config with pambase properly, because the common config in system-login (see above) covers that.
This had some consequences. For example, when the switch to systemd came along, devs would have had to open two separate tickets for it's pam configuration, since now that change touches both pambase and openssh packages. Furthermore, on all users' systems both packages had to be updated! This scenario would apply to any PAM config change that also affects ssh logins. In practice, for every PAM config change now you have to update the openssh package, too.
Coincidently, Dev2 was the dev who closed my ticket regading /etc/shells. He didn't want to respond to my question about sshd logins not getting checking against /etc/shells, which is configured as a part of the package he maintains. I sent him an email, asking him to provide the answer in this open forum. He didn't answer my email. He also didn't show up on this topic, yet.
You can draw your own conclusions about the quality of this work. But what frustrates me really is this kind of attitude. Someone asks a guy a perfectly reasonable question, regarding his own work, and he just acts as if he didn't hear it. I know the devs are volunteers so I will not comment on professionalism, but is this even adult behaviour?
If covering dev's own ass by avoiding questions about his work is more important to him than getting shit done right for everyone's sake, then I'm not sure if he is doing the community a favor here.
Now, let's fix this.
First, let's remove from sshd PAM config all the modules that would eventually get loaded if system-remote-login config is included, simply by eyeballing the files that get included down the chain from system-remote-login. We narrow the list to 5 modules:
#auth required pam_securetty.so #Disable remote root
account required pam_time.so
session required pam_unix_session.so
session required pam_limits.so
-session optional pam_ck_connector.so nox11
Actually these are 4 modules, one is commented out. But let's say that those are sshd-specific. And now let's reference our old friend from the beginning of the story, that little file called system-remote-login to pick up the rest, and to give it, for the first time in his life on Arch repositories, and on many Arch users' hard drives, a purpose! So we get this new /etc/pam.d/sshd:
#%PAM-1.0
#auth required pam_securetty.so #Disable remote root
account required pam_time.so
session required pam_unix_session.so
session required pam_limits.so
-session optional pam_ck_connector.so nox11
auth include system-remote-login
account include system-remote-login
password include system-remote-login
session include system-remote-login
Restart sshd, can I login? Yes indeed I can. Can I login after removing my shell from /etc/shells? Indeed I can not, which is the desired behavior. Say, that took about 10 minutes, all in all. (It would be nice if anyone else would be so kind to test).
Now I wouldn't call this "streamlined" either, but it's better. It's clearer. It's more consistent. And global PAM config changes would not require updates to openssh package anymore.
Now let's diff this against the current sshd config, call that a patch (because, as Xyne said, devs LOVE patches) and file a new ticket, this time against the openssh package. And see what happens.
Last edited by vv (2013-02-04 06:49:00)

Towards an Arch OCAML packaging guidelines

I'm not an OCaml programmer so I'm posting a preliminary howto in the hopes folks will give input and we can put it up on the wiki. I think the lack of standardization (and packages in general) is quite sad and we should be able to rather effortlessly do better. Much of the following info I hijacked from the debian package guidelines.
* Bytecode executables should have "options=(!strip)", since we're x86 only we don't really have to worry about native code compiler availability.
* Libraries/bindings should be prefixed with ocaml-.
* Libraries should provide META files. Since these seem to differ across various distros it seems reasonable to try and support both fedora and debian if possible, otherwise it seems debian seems to have more force and should be a priority (also they have lots of prewritten META's to hijack). Since our findlib doesn't setup a META.x directory META files should be placed under `ocamlfind printconf destdir`/library-name and should be called META.
* I have found that -j1 is often needed, maybe we should note this as it's bitten me a few times.
I wish I could comment on documentation but I don't know anything about it. Input on this would be appreciated. I assume they have a tool like doxygen, haddock, javadoc, etc.
Please give suggestions! Thanks.
Follows is a more formalised wiki page, I stole some stuff from the lisp guidelines:
== Background ==
At the moment, there are relatively few ocaml packages available in the Arch repositories. This means that at some point or another, more will likely appear. It is useful, therefore, to figure out now, while there are few packages, how they should be packaged. Therefore, this page stands as a proposed packaging guideline for lisp packages. Keep in mind, however, that this is a work in progress; if you disagree with some of the ideas suggested here, feel free to edit the page and propose something better.
== Bytecode and Native code ==
If Bytecode is produced make sure to include "options=('!strip')".
Probably should give mention of something here. I'm not educated enough to comment but intuitively native would be the way to go.
== Findlib ==
Packagers are encouraged to create META packages if a library does not provide one. The Debian folks seem to have a good foundation to build on or provide. Compatibility with Debian should be an interest. Fedora also supplies META packages for various libraries which may differ from those supplied by Debian. It is sometimes possible to be compatible with both distributions and this is hence encouraged when sensible.
== Directory Structure ==
Given that our current findlib package does not setup a metadir META packages should be placed under `ocamlfind printconf destdir`.
Maybe a comment here about executables and/or documentation?
== Example PKGBUILD ==
<pre>
pkgname=ocaml-mysql
pkgver=1.0.4
pkgrel=1
license=('LGPL')
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
pkgdesc="Objective Caml (OCaml) mysql library."
url="http://raevnos.pennmush.org/code/ocaml-mysql/"
depends=('ocaml' 'ocaml-findlib')
source=("http://raevnos.pennmush.org/code/ocaml-mysql/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz")
md5sums=('76f1282bb7299012669bf40cde78216b')
install=ocaml-mysql.install
options=('!strip')
build() {
cd $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver
mkdir -p "$pkgdir/$(ocamlfind printconf destdir)"
mkdir -p "$pkgdir/$(ocamlfind printconf destdir)/stublibs"
./configure || return 1
make || return 1
make opt || return 1
env DESTDIR="$pkgdir" \
OCAMLFIND_DESTDIR="$pkgdir/$(ocamlfind printconf destdir)" \
make install || return 1
</pre>
== Things you, the reader, can do ==
* Maintain lisp packages following these guidelines
* Update and fix problems with these guidelines
* Keep up with what's changed here
* Provide (polite) thoughts, feedback, and suggestions both on this document and to people's work.
* Translate this page and future updates to this page.

Nice Work! One question: Can you explain what you expect from the mentioned meta-packages? Maybe it is obvious to a experienced ocaml programmer, but not to me.:)

Onboard audio modules won't load after Skype install on 64b Arch

Hi,
I've a fully updated Arch 64b/KDE 4.5.2 (new PC).
My motherboard has a Realtek ALC889 Audio controller, and, in addition I have a Radeon 5600 graphic PCIe card with HDMI output.
I have the on-board audio controller enabled at the BIOS.
Initially, my audio worked fine, till I installed (from Arch repositories) Skype along with required 32b libraries.
My current status, after reboot:
The 889 module is not loaded (see below), only the one included in the graphic card.
When logging in KDE, I do hear the sounds.
Although Skype loads and logs-in fine, I can't hear Skype's test sounds nor does it capture the microphone connected to my motherboard back microphone plug. (Skype options offer ONLy Pulse Audio both for output and capture).
Both alsa-utils and alsa-oss are installed.
Please advise how do I restore full Audio capabilities (along with functional Skype).
Thanks!
I've tried to follow the Alsa wiki of Arch with the following results:
lspci | grep Audio
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5600 Series]
ls -l /sys/module/snd/holders
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 6 12:05 snd_hda_codec -> ../../snd_hda_codec
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 6 12:05 snd_hda_codec_realtek -> ../../snd_hda_codec_realtek
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 6 12:05 snd_hda_intel -> ../../snd_hda_intel
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 6 12:05 snd_hwdep -> ../../snd_hwdep
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 6 12:05 snd_mixer_oss -> ../../snd_mixer_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 6 12:05 snd_pcm -> ../../snd_pcm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 6 12:05 snd_pcm_oss -> ../../snd_pcm_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 6 12:05 snd_seq -> ../../snd_seq
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 6 12:05 snd_seq_device -> ../../snd_seq_device
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 6 12:05 snd_seq_oss -> ../../snd_seq_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 6 12:05 snd_timer -> ../../snd_timer
I've tried to modify my /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf to the following but, during boot, noticed a message saying modprobe ignores the option due to an error. The same happened also after omitting the "index=0" per the Wiki's recommendation.
# /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf (for v2.6 kernels)
options snd-pcsp index=2
# disable autoload of ipv6
alias net-pf-10 off
# added by miki
options snd_hda_codec_realtek index=0
options snd-pcsp index=1

p0x8 Thank you for the response, yes the host is Arch Linux. I am running the most current version of Virtual Box v4.2.8-1.
Now, with what you are saying, what I am missing. How do I get the VMs to work properly. So far, I have been able to get the Network up and running via each VM, Mouse and Keyboard integration is working. Also was able to get USB devices working as well. But my screen resolution is garbage for all 3 VM's. In doing some other reading, I noted where within the VM (Windows XP to be specific) there will be an icon on the lower right corner stating Oracle VM Virtualbox Guest Additions. This will also display a VBox system trey for lack of a better word on the bottom where you can attach devices and what not. That is what I am trying to get working on all 3 of my VMs.
Thank you again, and I should have paid more attention to detail as that section of the Wiki does say "Arch Guest" and not "Arch Host"
Edit: One thing I wanted to add. In reading the wiki it states:
Guest additions disc The virtualbox package also suggests installing virtualbox-guest-iso on the host (Arch Linux) running VirtualBox. It is a disc image that can be used to install the guest additions onto guest systems. Make it available to the (running) guest by going to Devices and clicking "Install Guest Additions... Host+D". Then run the guest additions installation from inside the guest.
I don't see the "Devices" option in order to run this. I have the virtualbox-guest-iso package installed in Arch, but when running the VM, I don't see a "Devices" option.
Last edited by ichase (2013-03-15 14:27:31)

Arch Linux Newsletter for June 04, 2008 Discussion

http://archlinux.org/static/newsletters … un-02.html
Here we are going to discuss any questions, suggestions or random talk about the newsletter for June 04, 2008. Feel free to contribute with ideas and suggestions.
As always thanks for your support,
In the name of the Arch Linux Newsletter Team
Eduardo "kensai" Romero

kensai wrote:
[vEX] wrote:I also think it should have been made clear that Tremuluos is only available for i686 and you need to enable the Community repository (I think it's enabled by default now, but I bet some people have it disabled).
Ok fixed everything but the interview, since I don't like correcting people in interviews, he is from Germany so English might not be his first language, still I always like Interviews to be left untouched.
Oh, and check it out now, I updated the Tremulous article with your note. ;)
Yeah, I feel the same way about the interview, it's just that previously in some interviews small typos have had [sic] next to them to point out the editor being aware of them.
weseven wrote:
Update: [vEX] from the forums pointed out: "it should have been made clear that Tremuluos is only available for i686 and you need to enable the Community repository (I think it's enabled by default now, but I bet some people have it disabled)."
false.
trem is for x86_64 too. the backport client you linked is only for i686, but if you search a bit on google, you can find svn client versions for 64 too.
playing trem on an arch64 laptop :)
Oh, I didn't spend much time searching for it, I just checked what's available in the Arch repositories, so in one way I'm still correct. It'd be nice to see a package (be it in Extra/Community or AUR) for us 64-bit users.
Last edited by [vEX] (2008-06-05 12:07:03)

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