[blfs-support] udev renaming eth0

2013-03-22 Thread Paul Rogers
upport/dev archives are coming back so I could have hunted for this, and (2) how can I stop udev from moving the interface around? TIA. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personall

Re: [blfs-support] .bashrc and .bash_profile ignored?

2013-02-17 Thread Paul Rogers
: You've gotten the best advice, about login vs subshells. Don't forget one of the most basic things--you've got to export them! Once or twice when I've been in a rush and thinking of other things I've forgotten, and it's taken me even longer to diagnose. ;-) --

Re: [blfs-support] Mesa-6.5.2/Xorg-7.2

2013-01-28 Thread Paul Rogers
ading the dri/glx modules in xorg.conf, put away but keep all the alternative drivers, and try to get xorg-7.2 running right then proceed with other things to be installed. After that's working I may well return and try to sort this out again, possibly with the frame- buffers enabled as an

Re: [blfs-support] For {,anti}systemd folks

2013-01-27 Thread Paul Rogers
rt drinking decaf. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: h

Re: [blfs-support] Mesa-6.5.2/Xorg-7.2

2013-01-27 Thread Paul Rogers
dule had been removed. I was thinking of doing a binary search between 6.6.3 and 6.12.4 looking for where the mach64 module was first removed and checking into that. Gives me something to try today, pending answers for above. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers

Re: [blfs-support] blfs-support Digest, Vol 2799, Issue 1

2013-01-26 Thread Paul Rogers
. It's another problem I'll chase down later--one at a time! But I wish software wouldn't presume it knows what I need! evdev doesn't look attractive. > > But I guess I should go sign-up for X's mailing list to persue this. > > LOL - they can be helpful, bu

Re: [blfs-support] Mesa-6.5.2/Xorg-7.2

2013-01-25 Thread Paul Rogers
ame buffers for Mach64, but that would be a module named afyfb. Xorg -configure calls for the ati driver module. But I guess I should go sign-up for X's mailing list to persue this. Any idea when we can get back in the mailing list archives, where I might look this up? Thanks for BLFS. --

Re: [blfs-support] Mesa-6.5.2

2013-01-23 Thread Paul Rogers
else last week. That's helpful, thanks. > So, if you want dri I guess you need to rebuild xorg. I don't really think I do. I'd rather speed than eye-candy and exploding windows. I think the without-xinerama is only in the server build. I'm thinking just rebuilding th

Re: [blfs-support] Mesa-6.5.2

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Rogers
roblem was the overlooked parens already reported. Later, in apps, xsm wouldn't build without rsh, which I have never built, so I took it out of the list. The X server doesn't want to load DRI now, maybe a build error, but that's less serious than my 7.5 errors. Thanks for chec

Re: [blfs-support] Mesa-6.5.2

2013-01-21 Thread Paul Rogers
t;dri" (loader failed, 7) ... (EE) AIGLX: DRI module not loaded Thanks, again. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-)

Re: [blfs-support] Mesa-6.5.2

2013-01-21 Thread Paul Rogers
Sheesh! Mea Culpa! Sorry... make | tee ... && Not quite as obvious when something, (), is missing! With them in place the build went to completion and I'm marching on. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everyth

Re: [blfs-support] Mesa-6.5.2

2013-01-21 Thread Paul Rogers
math-emu/float.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.34.13/include/linux/limits.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.34.13/include/linux/stddef.h -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse

[blfs-support] Mesa-6.5.2

2013-01-20 Thread Paul Rogers
7;t check the support archives yet. Suggestions, please? TIA -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- h

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors

2013-01-15 Thread Paul Rogers
then maybe I'll advance with my next version of LFS/BLFS. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://ww

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors

2013-01-08 Thread Paul Rogers
> Spaces in C are almost always ignored by the compiler except inside > of quotes. OK, so it's not causing the errors. Thanks, Bruce. I'll see if anything else comes up, but it's beginning to look like maybe I should try another version of X. -- Paul Rogers paulgro

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors

2013-01-08 Thread Paul Rogers
There is a space between the asterisk and the "S" on one statement. Is that optional, or must they be contiguous, as they are in all the other statements? How does the space change the meaning, if at all? TIA -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors

2013-01-07 Thread Paul Rogers
n" "asterisk" "space" "Saved...". Is that right? xorg-server-1.8.2/Xext/panoramiXprocs.c:return (*SavedProcVector[X_PolyFillRectangle])(client); xorg-server-1.8.2/Xext/panoramiXprocs.c:result = (* SavedProcVector[X_PolyFillRectangle])(client)

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors

2013-01-05 Thread Paul Rogers
, but I had to try it. I'm not sure what direction to proceed. I'm beginning to wonder if fixing the polygon-fill error might bring some joy. I think I'll back off for a day or two and see what inspiration comes. Still open to suggestions, of course. TIA -- Paul Rogers paulgrog

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors

2013-01-01 Thread Paul Rogers
> IBM 7090/7094. Fall 1965. Punched cards. Fortran II. Been there, > done that. ;-) IBM 1620 for me. They may call us old dinosaurs, but T. rex was a dinosaur! ;-) -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors

2013-01-01 Thread Paul Rogers
is left. It would be much more straight forward to try a different version of X-- the bug isn't in 6.8.2. I chose 7.5-3 because it was contemporaneous with LFS-6.6, so I figured the two would work together. > > Yes. The mail archives are disabled for now due to overuse by bots. > We

[blfs-support] blfs-support archives redirection not working!

2012-12-31 Thread Paul Rogers
One ends up in the LFS main page. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send y

Re: [blfs-support] blfs-support Digest, Vol 2775, Issue 1

2012-12-31 Thread Paul Rogers
issues". > Did it shut itself down (i.e. it doesn't work, so yes, you do have a > real problem), or did you kill it ? No, I shut it down from the fluxbox menu. All I needed to see was if the MTRR errors were still present at startup and shutdown. As you noted this

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors

2012-12-30 Thread Paul Rogers
setting MTRR (base = 0xe000, size = 0x0300, type = 1) Invalid argument (22) -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-)

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors

2012-12-30 Thread Paul Rogers
ybody know of troubles with those latest "not stable" kernels? With the LFS-6.6 base, is it possible/advisable to take a baby-step over the line and install an early 3.0 kernel? (Would that make further LFS updates easier?) -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~p

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors

2012-12-27 Thread Paul Rogers
As mentioned elsewhere, I'm using a Conroe dual-core for compiling X, -j2. I did see that Mesa won't compile correctly with multiprocessing, but didn't catch such a warning for X. Is it possible using multiprocessing for building X could be causing my MTRR errors? -- Paul

Re: [blfs-support] blfs-support (no subject)

2012-12-27 Thread Paul Rogers
mon packages you install > because something else might need them. Maybe the reason for that is I have a touch of Asperger's Syndrome. It makes me want things very organized. I have a plan for what I want from my LFS system. I plan, then execute, first things first. -- Paul Rogers paulg

Re: [blfs-support] blfs-support (no subject)

2012-12-26 Thread Paul Rogers
unctional desktop. In the LFS book the approach is forward-looking, i.e. "We need libc before we can proceed", while as everybody is saying, in the BLFS book it's all backward-looking and only finds dependencies that lead to one specific package. I think I spend rather more time than mo

Re: [blfs-support] blfs-support (no subject)

2012-12-25 Thread Paul Rogers
d > "Gnome" sections of the BLFS book, plus the pages for "Firefox", etc, > plus anything listed as a dependency for one of the above. I did in a previous post. q.v. > Your post is somewhat short on examples, so it's a little hard to see > what you

Re: [blfs-support] blfs-support (no subject)

2012-12-24 Thread Paul Rogers
e stripped away all the foliage from the systems we use, we'd find underneath a fairly common, consistent set of packages--from which our individual interests caused divergences, mostly by addition. I think what the newbie wants is a page in BLFS that lists the packages, and order, that get

Re: [blfs-support] blfs-support (no subject)

2012-12-23 Thread Paul Rogers
back in 2003/4, when what one got was simpler and more exposed. (I found a loose LFS-4.1 CD at a Goodwill charity "Outlet" store, i.e. the last stop before the landfill, and my own LFS has pretty much been my "daily-driver" since. But it was good to have that early experienc

Re: [blfs-support] blfs-support (no subject)

2012-12-22 Thread Paul Rogers
eryday for normal everyday stuff. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP acce

Re: [blfs-support] blfs-support (no subject)

2012-12-22 Thread Paul Rogers
ntifying the bones of a manageable end-user "daily-driver", at least getting them that far. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any addition

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors

2012-12-21 Thread Paul Rogers
e inappropriate arguments. I'm thinking of trying a different intel driver first, then maybe a different version of the server. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors

2012-12-20 Thread Paul Rogers
s I did browse the blfs-dev mailing list of a few years ago, settling on 7.5-3 as a likely candidate. What I need is support for newer versions of Firefox-[357], and drivers that work, intel, nv, ati, etc. Should I be trying for a different version of X with this LFS-6.6? -- Paul Rogers paulgrog

[blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors

2012-12-19 Thread Paul Rogers
mber in output stream: 16 waiting for X server to shut down ...error setting MTRR (base = 0xe000, size = 0x0300, type = 1) Invalid argument (22) -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I

[blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors

2012-12-17 Thread Paul Rogers
that seems to suggest to me that I can just recompile libpciaccess alone, without recompiling everything else built after that. Is that an appropriate couse of action? -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communica

[blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors

2012-12-17 Thread Paul Rogers
vices, for example. (It's being built on a 1.4Ghz Tualatin Pentium III, with the big compiling jobs exported to a 2.4GHz Conroe Core II--it is nice to see things fly by as fast as the screen can scroll!) -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second La

Re: [blfs-support] blfs-support Digest, Vol 2761, Issue 1

2012-12-17 Thread Paul Rogers
's being built on a 1.4Ghz Tualatin Pentium III, with the big compiling jobs exported to a 2.4GHz Conroe Core II--it is nice to see things fly by as fast as the screen can scroll!) -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "

[blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors

2012-12-16 Thread Paul Rogers
getting these same errors earlier when I had a bit of a mixup in versions. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-)

Re: [blfs-support] Mesa-7.8.2 compile fails

2012-12-15 Thread Paul Rogers
tall Python! Oh well, that was scheduled for later anyhow Thanks anyway. 8-) -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-)

[blfs-support] Mesa-7.8.2 compile failure addendum

2012-12-15 Thread Paul Rogers
Dang! Sorry for the 6.8.2 typo in the subject, previous. - Original message - From: Paul Rogers To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Mesa-6.8.2 compile failure addendum Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:45:56 -0800 Kernel-2.6.39.4, DRI enabled agpgart for Intel BX...i8xx etc enabled

[blfs-support] Mesa-6.8.2 compile failure addendum

2012-12-15 Thread Paul Rogers
Kernel-2.6.39.4, DRI enabled agpgart for Intel BX...i8xx etc enabled Went looking for i915 support in kernel, but not finding it . :-( -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not persona

[blfs-support] Mesa-7.8.2 compile fails

2012-12-15 Thread Paul Rogers
_subdirs] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/Mesa-7.8.2/src/mesa' make[1]: *** [subdirs] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/Mesa-7.8.2/src' make: *** [default] Error 1 -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Seco