Arch Linux

salixman

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Registered: 2009-12-19

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Two problems with newly installed arch linux 64-bit

Hey, I just installed Arch Linux 64-bit (I'm using kdemod, too), and I'm having two major issues. One is that I originally chose not to install kmix, not knowing what it was. I obviously want to use it, so I installed it later. When I click on it it doesn't open. I'm having the same issue with skype-oss (I got it from the AUR). they don't open in the system tray, and kmix never opens a window. Skype opens a window and gives me the login page, but right after it logs in the window closes. Any ideas?

lswest

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2008-06-14

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Re: Two problems with newly installed arch linux 64-bit

This isn't really a solution, but it will probably be required in order to help you fix this problem.  If you run both kmix and skype from the terminal, what output does it return?  Any errors?  Could you copy the entire chunk of output into your next post?

(To run them in the terminal just open Konsole and type "kmix" and "skype" respectively).

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toxygen

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Registered: 2008-08-22

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Re: Two problems with newly installed arch linux 64-bit

kmix does not work with OSS as far as i know (there's a package in AUR but it's buggy at best).  you will have to use ossxmix for now.

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Gen2ly

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From: Sevierville, TN

Registered: 2009-03-06

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Re: Two problems with newly installed arch linux 64-bit

Yeah, kmix currently is currently broken for oss in trunk

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salixman

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Registered: 2009-12-19

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Re: Two problems with newly installed arch linux 64-bit

I actually got both of them working. For skype, I installed the bin32-skype file from the AUR (instead of bin32-skype-oss, which was installed earlier), and I'm not 100% sure how I got kmix working (it might have involved installing the whole kdemod-kdemultimedia package instead of just getting kmix from the main repos). But thanks for the suggestions anyways.