Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-27 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 21:55 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > And the user has the information to do that. > > "If you've decided to use the standard /usr prefix, you can omit the > remainder of this page." Sure... it's just that we make the complicated case the default one for the inexperienced peopl

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-26 Thread akhiezer
> Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2013 21:33:49 -0300 > From: Fernando de Oliveira > To: BLFS Support List > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS > > Em 23-12-2013 08:13, Fernando de Oliveira escreveu: . . > > > > I t

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-25 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
Em 23-12-2013 08:13, Fernando de Oliveira escreveu: > Em 23-12-2013 07:07, William Harrington escreveu: >> Greetings, >> >> There is a problem with BLFS and Xorg deps when someone follows the >> links for required dependencies of Xorg libs. >> >> An example: >> >> When a user attempts to build WI

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-24 Thread Baho Utot
On 12/24/2013 06:42 PM, Simon Geard wrote: > On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 04:07 -0600, William Harrington wrote: >> xorg-proto ( which has util-macros as required dependency) does not >> have Xorg introduction as a required dependency where XORG_PREFIX and >> XORG_CONFIG is set. > Do we really have a rea

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-24 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 13:13 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Judging from LFS, many people skip things like the preface. I don't > know how many times users have run into problems because they didn't > read the preface and run the host requirements script. Yeah, you could title that page "YOU MUST R

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Simon Geard wrote: > On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 04:07 -0600, William Harrington wrote: >> xorg-proto ( which has util-macros as required dependency) does not >> have Xorg introduction as a required dependency where XORG_PREFIX and >> XORG_CONFIG is set. > > Do we really have a reason for having these va

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-24 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 04:07 -0600, William Harrington wrote: > xorg-proto ( which has util-macros as required dependency) does not > have Xorg introduction as a required dependency where XORG_PREFIX and > XORG_CONFIG is set. Do we really have a reason for having these variables, instead of jus

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Merell L. Matlock, Jr. wrote: > > On 12/23/2013 05:27 PM, William Harrington wrote: >> >> On Dec 23, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >>> Judging from LFS, many people skip things like the preface. I don't >>> know how many times users have run into problems because they didn't >>> read the

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-24 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
Em 24-12-2013 11:56, Merell L. Matlock, Jr. escreveu: > > On 12/23/2013 05:27 PM, William Harrington wrote: >> >> On Dec 23, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >>> Judging from LFS, many people skip things like the preface. I don't >>> know how many times users have run into problems because

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-24 Thread Merell L. Matlock, Jr.
On 12/23/2013 05:27 PM, William Harrington wrote: > > On Dec 23, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> Judging from LFS, many people skip things like the preface. I don't >> know how many times users have run into problems because they didn't >> read the preface and run the host requirements

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread William Harrington
On Dec 23, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Judging from LFS, many people skip things like the preface. I don't > know how many times users have run into problems because they didn't > read the preface and run the host requirements script. I also do note that in LFS, in places where the L

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
akhiezer wrote: >> From: Bruce Dubbs >>> Might it be best addressed in blfs chapter 2 or 3, if it's considered to >>> be a 'global', 'overview' kind of issue? BLFS users are ~expected to have >>> processed those chapters. That would help avoid a lot of repetition >>> elsewhere? >> >> From a pract

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: > ISTR that at a time, it was said that any page in the X chapter was a prereq > for the following. That explains why the pages are not in alphabetical order. > And that's how I implemented it in jhalfs-blfs (same for the KDE chapter, > actually). The Xorg pages are arrange

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 23/12/2013 16:56, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > akhiezer wrote: >>> From: William Harrington >>> To: BLFS Support List >>> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 04:07:25 -0600 >>> Subject: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS >>> >>

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread William Harrington
On Dec 23, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Might it be best addressed in blfs chapter 2 or 3, if it's >> considered to >> be a 'global', 'overview' kind of issue? BLFS users are ~expected >> to have >> processed those chapters. That would help avoid a lot of repetition >> elsewhere? >

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread akhiezer
> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 09:56:24 -0600 > From: Bruce Dubbs > To: BLFS Support List > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS > > >> . . > > > > > > Might it be best addressed in blfs chapter 2 or

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
akhiezer wrote: >> From: William Harrington >> To: BLFS Support List >> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 04:07:25 -0600 >> Subject: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS >> >> Greetings, >> >> There is a problem with BLFS and Xorg dep

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread akhiezer
> From: William Harrington > To: BLFS Support List > Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 04:07:25 -0600 > Subject: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS > > Greetings, > > There is a problem with BLFS and Xorg deps when someone follows the > links for re

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
Em 23-12-2013 07:07, William Harrington escreveu: > Greetings, > > There is a problem with BLFS and Xorg deps when someone follows the > links for required dependencies of Xorg libs. > > An example: > > When a user attempts to build WIreshark, the require deps will take > them all the way to

[blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread William Harrington
Greetings, There is a problem with BLFS and Xorg deps when someone follows the links for required dependencies of Xorg libs. An example: When a user attempts to build WIreshark, the require deps will take them all the way to xorg-proto. I have also been told that util-macros isn't required

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg: startx will not start

2013-12-09 Thread Armin K.
On 10.12.2013 0:06, Hans P. wrote: > Hello, > > My BLFS run in an Virtualbox environment, so i have installed the > Xorg-Cirrus-Driver and the Xorg-Vesa-Driver. > > Accordingly, i have enabled the modules in the kernel. > > So i have expanded the file /etc/sysconfig/modules: > cirrusfb > # Fallback

[blfs-support] Xorg: startx will not start

2013-12-09 Thread Hans P.
Hello, My BLFS run in an Virtualbox environment, so i have installed the Xorg-Cirrus-Driver and the Xorg-Vesa-Driver. Accordingly, i have enabled the modules in the kernel. So i have expanded the file /etc/sysconfig/modules: cirrusfb # Fallback uvesafb When I try to start 'startx', then i get f

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-12-02 Thread John Frankish
> -Original Message- > From: blfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org [mailto:blfs-support- > boun...@linuxfromscratch.org] On Behalf Of Ken Moffat > Sent: Wednesday, 06 November, 2013 15:45 > To: BLFS Support List > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect I

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg and dbus

2013-11-30 Thread Dan McGhee
On 11/30/2013 09:08 AM, Armin K. wrote: > On 30.11.2013 15:48, Dan McGhee wrote: >> There are many packages in BLFS whose purpose and functions I don't >> really understand. Even when I try to learn about them the descriptions >> are cryptic and I still have questions. Dbus is one of those. >> >>

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg and dbus

2013-11-30 Thread Armin K.
On 30.11.2013 15:48, Dan McGhee wrote: > There are many packages in BLFS whose purpose and functions I don't > really understand. Even when I try to learn about them the descriptions > are cryptic and I still have questions. Dbus is one of those. > > I've installed it because it was a dependency

[blfs-support] Xorg and dbus

2013-11-30 Thread Dan McGhee
There are many packages in BLFS whose purpose and functions I don't really understand. Even when I try to learn about them the descriptions are cryptic and I still have questions. Dbus is one of those. I've installed it because it was a dependency for either dhcpcd or wpa_supplicant. But now

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 10:36:07AM +, John Frankish wrote: > > > How would I go about using strace to check where the xorg-server is > > looking for 10-evdev.conf? > > > > > > Using "strace -o log_file Xorg -nolisten tcp &", Xorg beings to start up, but > then stops with the error: > > ... >

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-06 Thread John Frankish
> > How would I go about using strace to check where the xorg-server is > looking for 10-evdev.conf? > > > > As a high-level overview : install strace [ link from the Other Programming > Tools page at the end of the main Programming chapter, just before java ] - > there is a patch in patches. Th

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 08:03:09AM +, John Frankish wrote: > > > > > > 10-evdev.conf is at /usr/local/share/X11/xorg.conf.d and verified to be > > > the > > > same as the 32-bit install, which works. > > > > I'm not sure I follow that : did you verify the file's contents or > > it's locatio

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-04 Thread John Frankish
> > > BUT the first mentions of evdev in my log are > > > > > > [ 23798.003] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Power > > > Button(/dev/input/event1) > > > [ 23798.004] (**) Power Button: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard > > > catchall" > > > [ 23798.004] (**) Power Button: Applying InputCl

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 04:52:35PM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > > ĸen, > > Sometimes I have some libtool complaints. Fox example, dozens of the kind: > > libtool: relink: warning: > `/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.1/../../../libcairo.la' seems to be > moved > > I gave up removing th

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-03 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
Em 03-11-2013 12:54, Ken Moffat escreveu: > As long as /lib64 is a symlink to /lib, everything just works. It > isn't strictly 'pure' (libtool complains that files seem to be > moved, which I'm sure is because of the symlink) but it works > well-enough and allows for the occasional stupid packag

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 07:17:22AM +, John Frankish wrote: > > > > > > It's a bit hard to diagnose when you use /usr/local/lib (it > > *always* gets harder to build things correctly, e.g. PKG_CONFIG_PATH > > needs to be set), and *my* modules are all in > > /usr/lib/X11/modules/{,drivers/,input

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-03 Thread John Frankish
> > > Do you have somthing like: > > > [25.470] (II) LoadModule: "evdev" > > > in the log? > > > If not, It might be that you forgot to compile the evdev driver. (see > > > Xorg drivers page). > > > > > > > > No, I don't have anything like LoadModule: "evdev", but the evdev driver is > > the

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 12:35:10PM +, John Frankish wrote: > Do you have somthing like: [25.470] (II) LoadModule: "evdev" in the log? If not, It might be that you forgot to compile the evdev driver. (see Xorg drivers page). >>> >>> No,

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 12:35:10PM +, John Frankish wrote: > > > > > > > Do you have somthing like: > > > [25.470] (II) LoadModule: "evdev" > > > in the log? > > > If not, It might be that you forgot to compile the evdev driver. (see > > > Xorg drivers page). > > > > > > > No, I don't have

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-02 Thread John Frankish
> > > Ref: Beyond Linux From Scratch - Version 2013-11-01 Part VI. X + Window > > > Managers > > > > > > I built Xorg-7.7 in the same way on the same machine in both 32-bit and > > > 64-bit versions. > > > > > > The 32-bit version works without problems, but the 64-bit version does > > > not

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-02 Thread John Frankish
> > Ref: Beyond Linux From Scratch - Version 2013-11-01 Part VI. X + Window > > Managers > > > > I built Xorg-7.7 in the same way on the same machine in both 32-bit and > > 64-bit versions. > > > > The 32-bit version works without problems, but the 64-bit version does not > > seem to detect th

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-02 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 02/11/2013 08:08, John Frankish a écrit : > Ref: Beyond Linux From Scratch - Version 2013-11-01 Part VI. X + Window > Managers > > I built Xorg-7.7 in the same way on the same machine in both 32-bit and > 64-bit versions. > > The 32-bit version works without problems, but the 64-bit version

[blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-02 Thread John Frankish
Ref: Beyond Linux From Scratch - Version 2013-11-01 Part VI. X + Window Managers I built Xorg-7.7 in the same way on the same machine in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. The 32-bit version works without problems, but the 64-bit version does not seem to detect the keyboard/mouse. After issuing t

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

2013-01-15 Thread Paul Rogers
No great thoughts have come to me, and I must do something to get around this stoppage. I've decided to rip out XOrg-7.5 and fall back to 7.2, as documented in BLFS-6.3 Stable. If that works without the MTRR errors, and I can build the minimalist desktops, et al., that I typically use, then mayb

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 paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xp

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

2013-01-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Paul Rogers wrote: >>> none of the other have the space after the asterisk. Hmmm, in case >>> the email messes up the exact spacing, the second is "left paren" >>> "asterisk" "space" "Saved...". Is that right? >>> >>> xorg-server-1.8.2/Xext/panoramiXprocs.c:return >>> (*SavedProcVector[X_

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

2013-01-08 Thread Paul Rogers
> > none of the other have the space after the asterisk. Hmmm, in case > > the email messes up the exact spacing, the second is "left paren" > > "asterisk" "space" "Saved...". Is that right? > > > > xorg-server-1.8.2/Xext/panoramiXprocs.c:return > > (*SavedProcVector[X_PolyFillRectangle])

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

2013-01-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Paul Rogers wrote: > OK, as a reminder this is my error: > > error setting MTRR (base = 0xe000, size = 0x0300, type = 1) > Invalid argument (22) > X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >Major opcode of failed request: 70 (X_PolyFillRectangle) >Serial n

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

2013-01-07 Thread Paul Rogers
OK, as a reminder this is my error: error setting MTRR (base = 0xe000, size = 0x0300, type = 1) Invalid argument (22) X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 70 (X_PolyFillRectangle) Serial number of failed request: 15 Cur

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

2013-01-05 Thread Paul Rogers
So, I ripped out all the kernel stuff on my LFS-6.6 development, replacing a clean 32.7 kernel source, and the original as-built. Then I patched up to 34.13. I was careful as I could be about the options. This version seems to have almost nothing in the way of DRM graphics drivers, mostly frame-b

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

2013-01-03 Thread Scott
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 02:24:50PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Paul Rogers wrote: > >> IBM 7090/7094. Fall 1965. Punched cards. Fortran II. Been there, > >> done that. > > > > ;-) > > > > IBM 1620 for me. > > I did use that in 1966. Mass storage was punched cards. Did you ever > manually pu

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

2013-01-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Paul Rogers wrote: >> IBM 7090/7094. Fall 1965. Punched cards. Fortran II. Been there, >> done that. > > ;-) > > IBM 1620 for me. I did use that in 1966. Mass storage was punched cards. Did you ever manually punch a binary program on cards? We did as an exercise. -- Bruce -- http://

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

2013-01-02 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
On Wednesday 02 January 2013 20:25:49 Simon Geard wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-01 at 23:11 -0800, Paul Rogers wrote: > > > 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

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

2013-01-01 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2013-01-01 at 23:11 -0800, Paul Rogers wrote: > > 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! ;-) Evolve or die... that's the way this industry works...

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 do communicates." (

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

2013-01-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Paul Rogers wrote: > Ho boy! I may have to do some of that, but I fear it's beyond me, > anymore. Understand, I taught myself FORTRAN on a computer that did > arithmetic by table lookup in '66. Anybody here born then? IBM 7090/7094. Fall 1965. Punched cards. Fortran II. Been there, done t

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

2013-01-01 Thread Paul Rogers
> >>> Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda12 mem=523200K > > Doubtful. I know of no instance of GRUB changing the command line. I > suppose some script (internal or external) could do it, but the core > program does not. Are you in a VM? Nope, bare metal, "legacy" grub. Must have been the kerne

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

2012-12-30 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 05:04:54PM -0800, Paul Rogers wrote: > (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" > (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" Do you need /etc/X11/xorg.conf ? NB - in xorg.conf.d you probably need files for evdev.conf, and perhaps for the keyboard

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

2012-12-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: > Dana 31.12.2012 2:04, Paul Rogers je napisao: >> >> I don't like errors that point to potential memory corruption. >> >> xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.1335 >> >> _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 >> _XSERVTransOpen: transport

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

2012-12-30 Thread Armin K.
Dana 31.12.2012 2:04, Paul Rogers je napisao: > > I don't like errors that point to potential memory corruption. > > xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.1335 > > _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 > _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/par

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

2012-12-30 Thread Paul Rogers
> Please remind me : you appear to have some sort of problem with > libpciaccess, but apart from an error message, presumably from > startx, I haven't seen any indication that anything is not working, > so I'm unclear what is your problem is. I don't like errors that point to potential memory corr

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

2012-12-30 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 07:27:10PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > > But newer kernels should not be a problem. My own 6.6 has run > 2.6.23.46, 3.0.9, 3.1 (but 3.1 is no longer supported), and now > 3.0.36. Finger trouble. What I meant was 2.6.32.46, 3.0.9, ... ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, d

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

2012-12-30 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:11:50AM -0800, Paul Rogers wrote: > > Now, back to my XOrg problem, after installing LFS-6.6 per the book, I > patched up to the last 2.6.39 kernel. It lost floppy support, so I > needed the 39.4 patch. This is still further than the latest stable > kernels. I'm think

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

2012-12-30 Thread Paul Rogers
Thanks for the info on Wirenet. I have a tight client firewall. One of my meta-rules is that new connections are not alowed to anything but the well-kown ports on the outside. Now, back to my XOrg problem, after installing LFS-6.6 per the book, I patched up to the last 2.6.39 kernel. It lost fl

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 Rogers paulgrog...@fast

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

2012-12-21 Thread Paul Rogers
It's still very curious to me that nobody on the mailing list seems to have encountered this problem or its solution, especially as the libpciaccess changelog suggests it has been a "long-standing" error. I'm not doing anything unique, as far as I can tell. I have found a few reports in Google sea

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg fonts

2012-12-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 09:37:24AM -0500, Dave wrote: > > I'm having trouble getting Xorg to display a MC window properly " The > char's that display the boxes are coming out wrong. > > Looks like a font missing. > > Displays ok on command line. > > Dave > So, add more fonts ? I don't use

[blfs-support] Xorg fonts

2012-12-21 Thread Dave
I'm having trouble getting Xorg to display a MC window properly " The char's that display the boxes are coming out wrong. Looks like a font missing. Displays ok on command line. Dave -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.h

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

2012-12-21 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
--- Em qui, 20/12/12, Ken Moffat escreveu: > De: Ken Moffat > Assunto: Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors > Para: "BLFS Support List" > Data: Quinta-feira, 20 de Dezembro de 2012, 17:09 > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 09:20:13AM > -0800, Paul Rogers wrote: > > I

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

2012-12-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 09:20:13AM -0800, Paul Rogers wrote: > I'm going to assume libpciaccess-0.12.0 is correct, and see what I can > find about its callers, if anything. > > I suppose the question must be asked, am I trying to install a > version of X that's "difficult" or "the sweet spot". Kn

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

2012-12-20 Thread Paul Rogers
I'm going to assume libpciaccess-0.12.0 is correct, and see what I can find about its callers, if anything. I suppose the question must be asked, am I trying to install a version of X that's "difficult" or "the sweet spot". Knowing I'd be following developments I did browse the blfs-dev mailing l

[blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors

2012-12-19 Thread Paul Rogers
I did run the diff for libpciaccess-0.1[12].0. It was something line 4200 lines. Among the things I noticed was that when I get my blue-gene CPU, it can be configured. But as to the code, other than noticing there is now a new x86 routine, I can't tell anything. It still throws an error with 0.

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

2012-12-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Paul Rogers wrote: > I did go download libpciaccess-0.12.0, and uncompressed both 0.12.0 and > 0.11.0. I ran a diff on pciaccess.h, the only header in the include > directory. My thought was that if that hasn't changed, the calls from > everything else will still be using the correct structures.

[blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors

2012-12-17 Thread Paul Rogers
I did go download libpciaccess-0.12.0, and uncompressed both 0.12.0 and 0.11.0. I ran a diff on pciaccess.h, the only header in the include directory. My thought was that if that hasn't changed, the calls from everything else will still be using the correct structures. No difference. And that s

[blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors

2012-12-17 Thread Paul Rogers
Apparently there may be a fix for the MTRR for libpciaccess-0.12.0, here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-commit/2010-July/026384.html Has the modularization of the XOrg-7.x progressed enough that I could use 0.12.0 instead of 0.10.9? And, sorry, I forgot to change the Subject in reply

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

2012-12-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Paul Rogers wrote: > Base: LFS-6.6, kernel-2.6.39.4 > BLFS: BLFS-6.3 stable, X 7.5-3 from svn-101016 (r8641) > Quite sure I got all the prescribed pieces in place now. Two errors, > not sure > if they're related. Google searched for keywords, found similar reports > but > no suggestions for a fix

[blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors

2012-12-16 Thread Paul Rogers
Base: LFS-6.6, kernel-2.6.39.4 BLFS: BLFS-6.3 stable, X 7.5-3 from svn-101016 (r8641) Quite sure I got all the prescribed pieces in place now. Two errors, not sure if they're related. Google searched for keywords, found similar reports but no suggestions for a fix. Any help? TIA. (==) Log file

Re: [blfs-support] XORG 7.7 libraries

2012-10-02 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 01.10.2012 23:40, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > [XOrg installation] >> BTW, it won't hurt to run ldconfig (as root) after >> installing every single library. That's not in the >> book IIRC, but on my system that war needed for some >> packages. > > I was following, as this had happened to me, a

Re: [blfs-support] XORG 7.7 libraries

2012-10-01 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
--- Em seg, 1/10/12, maill...@herr-der-mails.de escreveu: > De: maill...@herr-der-mails.de > Assunto: Re: [blfs-support] XORG 7.7 libraries > Para: blfs-support@... > Data: Segunda-feira, 1 de Outubro de 2012, 16:20 > > > Fixed it by removing everything that was installed

Re: [blfs-support] XORG 7.7 libraries

2012-10-01 Thread maillist
> Fixed it by removing everything that was installed in previous efforts and > > reinstalling. I did find that somehow some of the items were installed in > > /usr/local/include and /usr/local/share. I goofed somewhere along the line. Probably failed to add --prefix=/usr somewhere. I take it it w

Re: [blfs-support] XORG 7.7 libraries

2012-10-01 Thread Carl Thorn
From: Carl Thorn To: BLFS Support List Sent: Sun, September 30, 2012 12:42:20 PM Subject: Re: [blfs-support] XORG 7.7 libraries From: Lars Bamberger To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Sent: Sun, September 30, 2012

Re: [blfs-support] XORG 7.7 libraries

2012-09-30 Thread Carl Thorn
From: Lars Bamberger To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Sent: Sun, September 30, 2012 12:12:37 PM Subject: Re: [blfs-support] XORG 7.7 libraries On 30.09.2012 18:01, Carl Thorn wrote: > [Installing X with XORG_PREFIX=/usr] > When install XORG lib

Re: [blfs-support] XORG 7.7 libraries

2012-09-30 Thread DJ Lucas
On 09/30/2012 11:01 AM, Carl Thorn wrote: > I have recently completed build LFS-7.2 and have installed GPM, Lynx, > Screen, along with other programs and libraries in the current stable > BLFS book. I am trying to install XORG-7.7. XORG_PREFIX=/usr. > Util-macros, XORG protocol headers, makedepend,

Re: [blfs-support] XORG 7.7 libraries

2012-09-30 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 30.09.2012 18:01, Carl Thorn wrote: > [Installing X with XORG_PREFIX=/usr] > When install XORG libraries xtrans-1.2.7 installs without error. But > libX11-1.5.0 fails during configure with this error:checking keysym > definitions... configure: error: Cannot find keysymdef.h. How do I locate >

[blfs-support] XORG 7.7 libraries

2012-09-30 Thread Carl Thorn
I have recently completed build LFS-7.2 and have installed GPM, Lynx, Screen, along with other programs and libraries in the current stable BLFS book. I am trying to install XORG-7.7. XORG_PREFIX=/usr. Util-macros, XORG protocol headers, makedepend, libXau, libXdmcp, libpthread-stubs, xcp-proto,

[blfs-support] Xorg Libraries

2012-09-27 Thread Carl Thorn
I am trying to install X on a newly compiled LFS-7.2 system. I started off by trying to install in the /opt directory but it would not install libX11-1.5.0 because it couldn't find keysymdef.h . I decided to go back to the standard /usr and recompiled everything up to Xorg Libraries. Once again

Re: [blfs-support] xorg synaptics driver dependencies

2012-08-14 Thread Armin K.
On 08/14/2012 09:50 AM, tom...@sekscinski.pl wrote: > Hi, > > I get the following error after ./configure $XORG_CONFIG > > checking for MTDEV... no > configure: error: Package requirements (mtdev) were not met: > > No package 'mtdev' found > > I installed the package from http://bitmath.org/code/mt

[blfs-support] xorg synaptics driver dependencies

2012-08-14 Thread tomasz
Hi, I get the following error after ./configure $XORG_CONFIG checking for MTDEV... no configure: error: Package requirements (mtdev) were not met: No package 'mtdev' found I installed the package from http://bitmath.org/code/mtdev/ This solved the problem. There is no information in the book

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg

2012-06-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 08:34:22AM +0100, Alan Bray wrote: > Hello. > I have tried to upgrade my xorg but have ran into a problem I cant solve:- > > > /usr/bin/X: Symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/X: undefined > symbol:pci_device_is_boot_vga > > Can you help? > > Best Regards, > > Alan Bray Som

[blfs-support] Xorg

2012-06-20 Thread Alan Bray
Hello. I have tried to upgrade my xorg but have ran into a problem I cant solve:- /usr/bin/X: Symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/X: undefined symbol:pci_device_is_boot_vga Can you help? Best Regards, Alan Bray -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfroms

Re: [blfs-support] xorg-7.7-1 circular dependency

2012-06-16 Thread DJ Lucas
On 06/16/2012 01:10 PM, John Burrell wrote: > > You don't appear to give any suggestion in the book. I haven't tried to > upgrade yet but > it would be good to get some guidance from the book, since I assume you > have done this > successfully. > > Thanks > > jb. Yeah, I copied the xbitmaps page f

[blfs-support] xorg-7.7-1 circular dependency

2012-06-16 Thread John Burrell
Bruce - I see that xbitmaps-1.1.1 has been added to the book for xorg-7.7-1. Required is x7app. x7app requires xbitmaps-1.1.1 Would you give some advice on how best to meet these dependencies please. You don't appear to give any suggestion in the book. I haven't tried to upgrade yet butit woul

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg: what do I need for hardware 3D acceleration ?

2012-04-07 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:33:42 +0100 Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 12:08:28PM +0100, Martin Ward wrote: > > > > Are you a member of the video group?, if not you will only get software > > acceleration > > > > Hi Martin, that was the problem - I hadn't needed to be in the > video

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg: what do I need for hardware 3D acceleration ?

2012-04-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 02:24:23AM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > > What does it say in /var/log/Xorg.0.log about dri? Hopefully it'll give > you some clue: > grep -i dri /var/log/Xorg.0.log | sed '/[Dd]river/d' > > Andy It all looked good and claimed to be using DRI2. Fortunately, Martin's rep

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg: what do I need for hardware 3D acceleration ?

2012-04-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 12:08:28PM +0100, Martin Ward wrote: > On 07/04/12 01:29, Ken Moffat wrote: > > glxinfo | grep OpenGL > Hi Ken > > I also have a r600 card, and have no problems > > glxinfo | grep OpenGL > OpenGL vendor string: X.Org > OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV610 > Ope

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg: what do I need for hardware 3D acceleration ?

2012-04-07 Thread Martin Ward
On 07/04/12 01:29, Ken Moffat wrote: > glxinfo | grep OpenGL Hi Ken I also have a r600 card, and have no problems glxinfo | grep OpenGL OpenGL vendor string: X.Org OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV610 OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.1 OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 O

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg: what do I need for hardware 3D acceleration ?

2012-04-06 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 01:29:59 +0100 Ken Moffat wrote: > > After building all of gnome-3 on my old hardware, I had hoped that > my newer hardware (an i3 with integrated intel graphics) would be > able to run clutter applications such as gnome-shell and totem, but > it wasn't up to it. So, I've m

[blfs-support] Xorg: what do I need for hardware 3D acceleration ?

2012-04-06 Thread Ken Moffat
After building all of gnome-3 on my old hardware, I had hoped that my newer hardware (an i3 with integrated intel graphics) would be able to run clutter applications such as gnome-shell and totem, but it wasn't up to it. So, I've moved on to my other new machine with a radeon600 chipset and done

Re: [blfs-support] xorg failure after kernel compilation. Was:Problems porting a BLFS System CLOSING the thread

2012-04-04 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:39:37 +0200 "Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers" wrote: > I shall follow up the problem, perhaps installing xorg.confs for mouse and > keyboard, but it seems to me, that something in the game xorg/kernel ist not > yet foolproved. There are some reports about this or similar problems

[blfs-support] xorg failure after kernel compilation. Was:Problems porting a BLFS System

2012-03-27 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
Trying to isolate the problem, we took an image of LFS7 ( nothing but LFS7) to a new partition on the PC, compiled xorg and started fluxbox. Everything ok, mouse, keyboard and screen. Then, we recompiled the kernel ( 3.1, lfs 7 config) with two small changes ( fuse driver added, device drivers

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg

2012-02-12 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
de Oliveira > Assunto: Re: [blfs-support] Xorg > Para: "BLFS Support List" > Data: Domingo, 12 de Fevereiro de 2012, 14:31 > Em 12-02-2012 13:13, DJ Lucas > escreveu: > > On 02/12/2012 08:57 AM, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > > I would like to add one for nVidia card

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg

2012-02-12 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
Em 12-02-2012 13:13, DJ Lucas escreveu: > On 02/12/2012 08:57 AM, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > I would like to add one for nVidia cards as well, but don't have the hardware > currently. DJ, In my dead HP notebook, there was an nVidia card. I kept the hd and the xorg.conf used in LFS6.7 is attac

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg

2012-02-12 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
Thank's, DJ. Em 12-02-2012 13:13, DJ Lucas escreveu: > On 02/12/2012 08:57 AM, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have been able to run Xorg in LFS SVN-20111210, using /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d >> instead of /etc/X11/xorg.conf. >> >> For the first time the server successfully run in my first a

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