Arch Linux

I prefer conky over having things in my system tray (battery monitor, network information, CPU load, RAM usage, etc...). All of these are kind of important for me because I am very mindful of my resources now because I have had instances where I didn't realize Thunderbird was hung in the background and maxed out 1 of my CPU cores to 100% which prevented my CPU to scale down which in turn resulted in extremely slow processing for my little netbook and drained my battery before I could get to an outlet.

Of course it does look good but I can get by with setting the refresh rate to 60-120 seconds probably.

You rock! That's exactly what I was looking for. I need to look at that rc.conf file closer, it really does have all the settings I'm looking for.

I found Arch Bang on accident while doing some research on Openbox. I found Will's blog first and then found Arch Bang not knowing they were connected. I am kind of disappointed that it uses so much more memory than my Fedora 14 XFCE install did but I'm very happy with the simplicity and all of the disk space I'm saving.

Can you post your rc.conf and .xinitrc file? You can do this from the CLI.

I had that same issue also, I had to login to my user via CLI to fix it. I honestly can't remember what caused it though or how I fixed it. Did you make any other changes besides updating?

I got the same thing when I first ran pacman, try this:
pacman -Syuf

Ok I found the problem (by accident)... /etc/rc.local automatically sets the mixer controls each time Arch Bang boots up. LoL!

I did that, no luck.

According to this thread the person resolved the error by installing the kernel headers (kernel26-headers?). I'm just replying based on the limited research I've done so if I'm wrong somebody please correct me.

For what it's worth, around the time this thread was created a forum I am an admin on started getting flooded with spam also, around 100-400 messages a day. We've installed some vB plugins so now we're down to about 40-80 a day (luckily 99% of them are sent to moderation so they don't appear but I am still busy cleaning up the forums every hour or so ) but ultimately the cause is that xrumer (spambot script) released a new version around this time that apparently beats most CAPTCHA out there. Just thought I'd let you know.

I thought that was it! I haven't had much time to play with it but that would have been my first thing to play with. Thanks for confirming!

The partitions are already setup but the Arch Bang installation doesn't want to use my current boot partition and keeps creating it's own. So now I have 2 boot partitions and when I try to boot into Windows 7 from the Arch Bang /boot it just pulls up the 2nd grub menu.

Thanks for the replies! I prefer editing the config file CLI which worked perfect.

I noticed in the file there was a section for "battery", I set it from 0 to 1 but it doesn't appear to do anything, any ideas?