On 01/29/2010 11:59 PM, Andrea Crotti wrote:
I have a little dell 10 with archlinux.
Unfortunately the audio and 3d are not really working, I tried hard some
time ago but with no luck, anyway other problems are more annoying.
- time getting crazy
Every time I reboot this little machine the date is set somehow randomly.
Any idea of what could that be?
Maybe the battery that should keep it up is not working (I think is an
OS issue though)??
- screensaver
I use xfce but I installed quite a lot of stuff from gnome, but I
never asked for the stupid gnome-screensaver to start at every boot,
and I don't find how to disable it.
My daemons are only those:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond acpid sshd hal bluetooth alsa
rsyncd cpufreqd wicd cups fam)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
- network devices with random name
I had some troubles with the wireless card but then it worked smoothly
with the proprietary "broadcom-wl" driver, the only problems is that
sometimes
eth0 = lan, eth1 = wireless and sometimes is the opposite
and I don't understand why.
This also happens with normal reboots.
- no packages to update
This is quite strange, sometimes I do a "pacman -Suy" and I loop up to
date, but if I change the first mirror just editing mirrorlist I'm not
up to date anymore and it starts updating.
What does that mean? Not all the mirrors are on sync?
Could it be related somehow to my problem with the date (shouldn't be
though)?
Hi Andrea,
1) time issue
check your /etc/rc.conf and make sure you have
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
and the correct TIMEZONE setting.
Also, if that is already ok, try deleting //var/lib/hwclock/adjtime/ ,
this fixed it for me.
2) about gnome-screensaver, I don't really know I've never had such
problems with it, I'd try running /gnome-screensaver-preferences/ and
disabling it from there though.
3) network intefaces issue
if that keeps up you could try adding udev rules for your devices:
create a new rules file, e.g. //etc/udev/rules.d/66-nic.rules/ , a
possible set of rules would look like
KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff", NAME="eth0"
KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="ff:ee:dd:cc:bb:aa", NAME="eth1"
where the address fields should match that of your network intefaces
(you can use /ifconfig /to narrow that down).
That should pretty much do the trick.
4) mirrors
Yes, some mirrors may be out of sync, take a look at the Mirror Status
<https://www.archlinux.de/?page=MirrorStatus> ;-)
Andrea
