Emacs with Tramp using zsh

First off, I recommend reading the relevant parts of the user manual, you might find the answer there. Now, to the issue. I installed tramp and added this to ~/.emacs: (require ‘tramp) (setq tramp-default-method “scp”) Nothing special here, except it didn’t work. (The message was something like “waiting 60s for local shell”. Of course, I [...]

Analog Devices AD1984A (snd-hda-intel) on HP 6730s, Arch Linux

Here’s a great table for all your snd-hda-intel needs: Ubuntu Wiki audio_intel_da.

SpamAssassin and Exim on Arch Linux: some config trouble

I had this happen – SA wasn’t reading user_prefs out of a proper home dir: [12071] info: spamd: creating default_prefs: //.spamassassin/user_prefs [12071] dbg: config: using “/.spamassassin” for user state dir [12071] dbg: config: mkdir /.spamassassin failed: mkdir /.spamassassin: Permission denied at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1577 [12071] dbg: config: Permission denied [12071] warn: config: cannot write to [...]

csh: Cannot open /etc/termcap

Upon logging into my remote server with ssh, I started getting: csh: Cannot open /etc/termcap. csh: using dumb terminal settings. There is no rxvt-unicode entry in /etc/termcap. You should specify one, but if you’re lazy, you can just setenv TERM xterm in your ~/.cshrc. P.S. Nah, this doesn’t help. You have to put that line [...]