[gentoo-amd64] startx fails with backtrace and no errors

2009-04-10 Thread Daiajo Tibdixious
This is a new system, I've never manged to start X yet at all. Initially I had lots of (failed to load module) errors for various modules, module ABI major version (1) doesn't match the server's version (4) got rid of all of the failed to load module errors turned the ABI error into a warning

Re: [gentoo-amd64] startx fails with backtrace and no errors

2009-04-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 10 April 2009, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: This is a new system, I've never manged to start X yet at all. Initially I had lots of (failed to load module) errors for various modules, module ABI major version (1) doesn't match the server's version (4) got rid of all of the failed to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] startx fails with backtrace and no errors

2009-04-10 Thread Herbert Laubner
An emerge --info would also be good. Am 10.04.2009 um 08:55 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Freitag 10 April 2009, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: This is a new system, I've never manged to start X yet at all. Initially I had lots of (failed to load module) errors for various modules, module ABI

[gentoo-amd64] ati-drivers compile issues

2009-04-10 Thread Harry Holt
I went to compile the proprietary drivers today from the ati-drivers emerge, but nothing up to and including 8.582 will compile do to error: * The die message: * ati-drivers-8.582 requires support for pci_find_slot. There is a bug about this here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/248118 but oddly

[gentoo-amd64] Re: startx fails with backtrace and no errors

2009-04-10 Thread Duncan
Herbert Laubner hlaub...@online.de posted d9566854-e7e5-428d-9d44-c1aa2e22d...@online.de, excerpted below, on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:53:49 +0200: An emerge --info would also be good. Am 10.04.2009 um 08:55 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Freitag 10 April 2009, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: This

[gentoo-amd64] Re: ati-drivers compile issues

2009-04-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Harry Holt wrote: I went to compile the proprietary drivers today from the ati-drivers emerge, but nothing up to and including 8.582 will compile do to error: * The die message: * ati-drivers-8.582 requires support for pci_find_slot. There is a bug about this here:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ati-drivers compile issues

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Harry Holt harryh...@gmail.com wrote: I went to compile the proprietary drivers today from the ati-drivers emerge, but nothing up to and including 8.582 will compile do to error: * The die message: * ati-drivers-8.582 requires support for pci_find_slot.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: ati-drivers compile issues

2009-04-10 Thread Harry Holt
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Harry Holt wrote: I went to compile the proprietary drivers today from the ati-drivers emerge, but nothing up to and including 8.582 will compile do to error: * The die message: * ati-drivers-8.582 requires

[gentoo-amd64] Re: grub and maximum kernel file size

2009-04-10 Thread Duncan
Branko Badrljica bran...@avtomatika.com posted 49de848d.60...@avtomatika.com, excerpted below, on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:28:13 +0200: Duncan wrote: Did you try md-mod,start_dirty_degraded=1 (AFAIK this applies to RAID-4/5/6 only)? No Hmm, and you said RAID-5, right? I think one of the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: ati-drivers compile issues

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Harry Holt harryh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Harry Holt wrote: I went to compile the proprietary drivers today from the ati-drivers emerge, but nothing up to and including 8.582 will

[gentoo-amd64] Re: ati-drivers compile issues

2009-04-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Harry Holt wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de mailto:rea...@arcor.de wrote: I don't know if this error exists upstream or not, but I may try installing the 9.3 version from ATI just to find out (if I can get through it). I know

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: ati-drivers compile issues

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Harry Holt wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de mailto:rea...@arcor.de wrote: I don't know if this error exists upstream or not, but I may try installing the 9.3

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: grub and maximum kernel file size [solved]

2009-04-10 Thread flockmock
ok, I got it working, following steps, in case someone googles for it: * set the GRUB_MAX_KERNEL_SIZE variable in /etc/make.conf to a suff. high value * re-emerge grub * make sure, that grub detects all your memory: this was my problem ;) grub needs ((kernel_size)+1)*2 of memory... playing

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: ati-drivers compile issues

2009-04-10 Thread Harry Holt
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com paul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Harry Holt wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: grub and maximum kernel file size

2009-04-10 Thread The Doctor
Duncan wrote: I need initramfs to be able to boot from RAID. Same for LVM. Yes, for LVM, no, for RAID, at least md/mdp kernel RAID. DM based firmware RAID is different, and not something I'd trust /my/ system to. Is there all that much of a difference between setting up the kernel's

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: grub and maximum kernel file size

2009-04-10 Thread Branko Badrljica
Duncan wrote: Duncan wrote: Did you try md-mod,start_dirty_degraded=1 (AFAIK this applies to RAID-4/5/6 only)? No Hmm, and you said RAID-5, right? Yes. I tried now to boot without initramfs and it works- with and without that md-mod,start_dirty_degraded=1 option.

[gentoo-amd64] xorg - now part of system?

2009-04-10 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I did the update to the new xorg-1.5 stuff this afternoon. After all the messages on the list I was pretty worried it would be a big problem but for me on my AMD64 machine it just worked. Thanks to whoever the folks are that made that happen. A couple of questions: 1) I see one error

Re: [gentoo-amd64] xorg - now part of system?

2009-04-10 Thread Barry Schwartz
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com skribis: 2) I'm surprised that this update happened with emerge -DuN @system. I didn't remember X as being part of system. Has something changed or is this possibly being driven by some USE flag change somewhere? You have X support turned on, via USE flags, in

Re: [gentoo-amd64] xorg - now part of system?

2009-04-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Barry Schwartz chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com skribis: 2) I'm surprised that this update happened with emerge -DuN @system. I didn't remember X as being part of system. Has something changed or is this possibly being

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: grub and maximum kernel file size

2009-04-10 Thread Branko Badrljica
Branko Badrljica wrote: Yes. I tried now to boot without initramfs and it works- with and without that md-mod,start_dirty_degraded=1 option. Update: it doesn't work really. System boots, but I can't write anything to filesystem. mount reports everything as fine. rootfs is mounted rw,

[gentoo-amd64] Re: xorg - now part of system?

2009-04-10 Thread Duncan
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com posted 5bdc1c8b0904101724h72852e2q8c9149a3818e0...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:24:43 -0700: 1) I see one error in my Xorg.0.log file about freetype: (II) Loading extension X-Resource (II) LoadModule: freetype (WW) Warning,