On 03/09/13 20:24, Frank Peters wrote:
A new linux kernel, 3.11, is now released and, as expected, the
nvidia-drivers fail to emerge.
For the impatient, a patch is available:
http://pastebin.com/qV30u23p
Just drop the patch file into /etc/portage/patches/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
and you'll b
On 16/02/12 02:06, Frank Peters wrote:
After updating nvidia-drivers from 290.10 to 295.20-r1, I cannot start X
and the log files contain this message:
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the
[ 3482.609] (EE) NVIDIA(0): system's kernel log for additiona
On 10/09/2011 09:15 PM, Frank Peters wrote:
On Sun, 9 Oct 2011 13:45:07 -0400
Frank Peters wrote:
Well, up until a few days ago, the Shift+Fn combination was working as it
should. Then suddenly, Shift+Fn stopped working correctly.
I found this report of the same problem:
http://forums.fu
On 08/23/2011 11:02 PM, Frank Peters wrote:
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:05:42 +0200
Agostino Sarubbo wrote:
You need more than 3GB of diskspace free. So If you compile on a limited tmpfs
space, you can compile it with:
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/another_path_that_is_on_disk" emerge thunderbird
I didn't thi
On 08/23/2011 09:47 PM, Frank Peters wrote:
When attempting to emerge either thunderbird-5 or thunderbird-6
the build fails.
The build log, in both cases, shows this at the end:
rm -f libxul.so
/usr/bin/python2.7 [...] -Wl,-h,libxul.so -o libxul.so [...]
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make
On 07/01/2011 04:04 AM, Frank Peters wrote:
A few days ago I posted about a possible problem with a floating
point test called the UCBTEST. After examining the source code
of this test, I see violations of aliasing rules throughout.
It's hard to efficiently manipulate variables without them.
Y
On 07/01/2011 03:04 AM, Frank Peters wrote:
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 02:44:36 +0300
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Your code is buggy, because you're breaking C's aliasing rules. You are
not allowed to use a different pointer type to dereference a variable of
a different type. Doing so
On 07/01/2011 02:35 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 07/01/2011 12:45 AM, Frank Peters wrote:
Hello,
After banging my head for a while over some strange results, I began
to suspect GCC-4.5.2, the latest version in portage, was creating
faulty code.
It seems to a correct suspicion.
[...]
int n
On 07/01/2011 12:45 AM, Frank Peters wrote:
Hello,
After banging my head for a while over some strange results, I began
to suspect GCC-4.5.2, the latest version in portage, was creating
faulty code.
It seems to a correct suspicion.
[...]
int n;
double x;
unsigned long int arg;
unsigned long int
On 01/08/2011 06:28 PM, Frank Peters wrote:
[...]
I already posted a report of this issue on the Alsa-users list but received
no response. Before I go posting more reports I just want to ask for some
confirmation. Has anyone installed the new 2.6.37 kernel and gotten functioning
sound?
No pro
On 01/03/2011 08:34 PM, Dale wrote:
Hi folks,
I recently built me a new 64 bit system. My old 32 bit system has 2Gbs
and my new system has 4Gbs. I was expecting it to use about the same
amount of memory but noticed it uses a good bit more on the new system
than the old one. With just the normal
On 12/11/2010 10:42 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 12/11/2010 08:22 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
What plugin should I be installing to get mp3 playback inside of Firefox?
OGG works fine but mp3 only offers to save the file.
I wasn't h
On 12/11/2010 08:22 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
What plugin should I be installing to get mp3 playback inside of Firefox?
OGG works fine but mp3 only offers to save the file.
I wasn't having this limitation with Firefox-bin.
www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer is a plugin that uses mplayer.
On 09/28/2010 08:03 PM, Zhu Sha Zang wrote:
I have some machines running gentoo and every machine running under
AMD Processors (64-bit profile), everything is right. Every source code
compile fine.
But, some machines, i've installed under Intel Core 2 Quad or i7
processor and this machines ha
On 09/27/2010 07:10 PM, Frank Peters wrote:
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:33:22 +0100
"Paul Stear" wrote:
Hi all,
I think I have a symbolic link problem. Any thought on how to solve this
error.
CFLAGS="-Os -march=k8 -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs -mmmx -msse3 -pipe
-fomit-frame-pointer"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-
On 09/22/2010 12:52 AM, Dan Reidy wrote:
On 09/21/2010 02:54 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
add to USE "graphite"
add to CFLAGS "-floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block"
doesn't this also need -fgraphite added ?
No. This option should not be used:
http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/g...
On 09/16/2010 12:29 AM, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote:
I run firefox-bin with a large applet that plays music and other sounds.
I have it started via KDE run 'aoss firefox-bin'.
When the applet is running I can't get sound in mplayer.
If I exit the applet, while firefox is still running, I can then get
On 08/03/2010 08:19 AM, Thanasis wrote:
A recent update to sudo (maybe in connection to a pam update) changed
the behavior of not asking the user (in X session) for authentication
when opening another terminal and calling sudo in it (withing a 5 minute
interval from the previous successful auth
On 05/12/2010 12:02 AM, Eduardo Schoedler wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
How many months is it since you've run emerge --sync? :P
Every night! :p
Then you probably missed that you also need to run "eix-update" after
syncing, or else eix will never update its own database. :)
On 05/11/2010 09:49 PM, Eduardo Schoedler wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 05/11/2010 07:44 PM, Eduardo Schoedler wrote:
Paul Stear wrote:
I don't even know if I need these packages.
# USE="-mysql" emerge -va amarok
or put in /etc/portage/package.use:
media-sound/amarok -
On 05/11/2010 07:44 PM, Eduardo Schoedler wrote:
Paul Stear wrote:
I don't even know if I need these packages.
# USE="-mysql" emerge -va amarok
or put in /etc/portage/package.use:
media-sound/amarok -mysql
and then emerge amarok.
Amarok does not have a "mysql" USE flag. MySQL is not optio
On 03/23/2010 06:06 PM, Paul Stear wrote:
Hi,
I don't know how I have done this but I have managed to detach the task bar
from the part of the panel that pops up when you put the mouse towards the
bottom of the screen.
I have tried everything I can think of to get it attached to the panel so it
p
On 03/16/2010 11:23 AM, Sebastian Beßler wrote:
Am 16.03.2010 02:56, schrieb Duncan:
I posted the link to the guide in the doomsday thread pretty much
concurrently to the discussion here, but for convenience, here's the link:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1&cha
On 03/14/2010 06:04 AM, Chris wrote:
[...]
And no, you can't compile in 32bit mode even if you were using a multilib
profile. Gentoo's multilib is not "real" multilib and won't let you build
in 32bit mode.
Bah. That both sucks and blows. Hopefully I can compile beta67 amd64
and get it to run
On 03/14/2010 02:34 AM, Duncan wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann posted on Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:27:20 +0100 as
excerpted:
so you wasted a lot of space. For what benefit again?
What, you can't even read? In the same message you quoted part of, I
explained why -- I build my (32-bit only) netbook imag
On 03/13/2010 11:21 PM, Chris wrote:
Hi all. I'm a bit of a newb on gentoo/emerge.. so forgive me if I'm
reviving the dead horse for yet another flogging. I just subscribed
and posted without lurking/searching.
I'm trying to get this package to compile on my amd64 box to run in
dedicated server
On 02/25/2010 01:13 AM, Sebastian Beßler wrote:
Am 24.02.2010 23:48, schrieb Thanasis:
I want to revert to the stable version of a specific package
(sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.6-r2), while in /etc/make.conf I have
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64".
For that I have put in /etc/portage/package.keywords:
sys-fs/
On 02/25/2010 12:48 AM, Thanasis wrote:
I want to revert to the stable version of a specific package
(sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.6-r2), while in /etc/make.conf I have
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64".
For that I have put in /etc/portage/package.keywords:
sys-fs/cryptsetup amd64
and then I run
emerge -1 =sys-f
On 02/23/2010 05:34 PM, malc wrote:
Paul,
Try emerging amarok with USE=-embedded - I believe there's a bug open
on b.g.o for this - but at work and no time to search it out.
If you do that, you should know what you're getting yourself into. You
will need to run a MySQL server on your machine
On 02/15/2010 06:45 AM, Frank Peters wrote:
Doing my daily emerge update, I noticed that a new release of the
linux-headers, version 2.6.32, was available. After installing this
new version, there appeared a message advising that glibc be re-emerged
to take advantage of any new features that mig
On 01/26/2010 09:55 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
OK - with the new machine up and running well enough to do some
work I really need to get some sort of virtualization going to see if
I can get around the fact that XP cannot be installed on this machine.
(at least not easily) I need to run Trade
On 01/26/2010 07:30 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Peter Humphrey
wrote:
On Tuesday 26 January 2010 01:13:59 Mark Knecht wrote:
mtrr: type mismatch for c000,1000 old: write-back new:
write-combining [drm] MTRR allocation failed. Graphics performance may
suff
On 01/26/2010 01:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I've been working on trying to get this new machine to run X. So
far no luck but I'm learning so it's interesting.
My quick question goes like this - if I boot with no drivers I get
a VGA console. If I modprobe a frame buffer driver at boot
On 01/24/2010 09:34 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
[...]
I apologize at the outset. I'm ranting. I know it. I'm sorry in
advance. Please everyone, please accept my apologies.
It's OK, we've all been there ;)
Unable to run any sort of X so far. I've tried make.conf two ways and
then maybe 50 recompil
On 01/24/2010 09:15 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Drake Donahue wrote:
On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 10:51 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
Did xorgconfig go away?
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml gives a pretty up to date
status. You might want to go with the flow (d
On 12/16/2009 08:34 PM, Nadav Horesh wrote:
System: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+
I recently upgraded from 2.6.23 to 2.6.31-r6 following the udev upgrade (the
latest version - 146-r1 needs kernel version>= 2.6.25). Since the upgrade the
frequency scaling modules fails to l
On 12/14/2009 07:43 PM, Frank Peters wrote:
Today, doing an "emerge -pvDu world" I get the report that no packages
need to be updated.
But while checking the status of another package, I happen to execute
"emerge -pv rpm2targz." This then reports that the package rpm2targz
needs to be updated.
On 12/12/2009 06:08 PM, Frank Peters wrote:
[...]
Incidentally, the Gentoo boot script for microcode_ctl is not correct.
It uses a "-d" option to specify the microcode device:
microcode_ctl -d /dev/cpu/microcode
But the "-d" option does not exist. The device is specified at
compile time.
It
On 12/12/2009 06:43 AM, Frank Peters wrote:
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:30:18 +0200
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I can't offer much help other than the assurance that it works on
64-bit. I've been using it to keep my CPU's microcode updated for quite
a while. It's a Core 2
On 12/11/2009 09:31 PM, Frank Peters wrote:
After failing to receive any kind of answer from various sources, including
the developers themselves, I though that I would bring up the issue here.
Does the microcode_ctl utility work on the x86_64 processor, and in particular
the Core 2 quad? If so
On 12/03/2009 11:46 PM, Duncan wrote:
Juan Fco. Giordana posted on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:31:01 + as excerpted:
alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote:
I need vfat tools (mkfs.vfat, fsck.vfat...) and can't figure out the
package to which they belong. Help welcome...
sys-fs/dosfstools :P
LOL. Di
On 12/02/2009 06:28 PM, sean wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
MemTotal:7649744 kB
MemFree: 6832176 kB
Buffers: 22108 kB
Cached: 299636 kB
SwapCached:0 kB
You're still missing half a GB though. Is this a 32-bit kernel?
No.
2.6.30-gent
On 12/02/2009 05:42 PM, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote:
I need vfat tools (mkfs.vfat, fsck.vfat...) and can't figure out the package to
which they belong. Help welcome...
sys-fs/dosfstools
On 12/02/2009 04:14 AM, sean wrote:
Duncan wrote:
But if you don't have that hole configured properly, you WILL lose access
to the real memory behind it.
I forgot to setup for the hole in BIOS.
It looks much better now.
MemTotal:7649744 kB
MemFree: 6832176 kB
Buffers:
On 11/29/2009 08:14 PM, Cheng Renquan wrote:
Just a simple problem:
1) if other linux distros can achieve, why gentoo not?
Gentoo *does* provide a way to have full multilib support like in other
distros; the "emul-linux-x86-*" binary packages. However, only some
popular and commonly needed p
On 11/15/2009 06:13 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Sonntag 15 November 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Wine will never be 64-bit and it needs libraries not available
in emul packages.
oh relly?
win64 (app-emulation/wine):
Build a 64bit version of Wine (won't run Win32 bin
On 11/15/2009 03:25 PM, Duncan wrote:
There's a couple of experimental projects whereby portage is modified
to be able to handle multiple ABI installations in parallel. As a
matter of practice, I don't know if they'll ever get merged, because
we've gone this long without it, and as I mentioned,
On 11/14/2009 01:45 PM, Cheng Renquan wrote:
[...]
Furthermore, if compiling any other 32bit program on gentoo-amd64, it may need
other more 32bit of libraries,
Comparing other linux distros like fedora-x86_64 and debian-amd64, I knew there
is simple way to archive this goal, just install both b
On 10/29/2009 05:25 PM, Clemente Aguiar wrote:
Ever since the upgrade of Gnome to 2.2.6 I have had a problem with the
Wine menus.
Actually the Wine menus are gone and the individual icons for the
windoze apps, such as Winamp, are now scatter under the menu "Others".
One interesting bit, is that
On 10/23/2009 06:22 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote:
Hi,
to enable xinerama-support I want to rebuild mplayer but it hangs at
Checking for ALSA audio ... yes (using alsa 1.0.x and alsa/asoundlib.h)
Checking for Sun audio ... no
Checking for VCD support ... yes
Checking for dvdread ... yes (internal)
On 10/13/2009 06:58 AM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
Hello All:
"emerge --update --deep world " is failing. I can not install libXaw. I
am getting the following error:
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/x11-libs/libXaw-1.0.6/work/libXaw-1.0.6'
make: *** [all] Error 2
That's too late. W
On 10/02/2009 07:18 PM, Mark Haney wrote:
I'm a little curious. I've got two versions of QT (3& 4) on my system.
That's not a problem as I have multiple python versions too. What I"m
curious about is when will it (or is it) safe to unmerge qt3?
It's not a system package so you can remove it
On 09/14/2009 08:26 PM, Thomas Bruns wrote:
hallo NG,
wie kann ich meinen Firefox dazu bringen, mms zu unterstützen?
http://www.cinlug.org/node/316
On 09/05/2009 02:43 PM, Paul Stear wrote:
By the way does anybody know how to use a smaller font for the boot up screen?
What monitor do you have? If it's a TFT, use its native resolution in
the kernel parameters. Though some widescreen resolutions aren't
supported by some graphics cards' V
On 09/02/2009 06:29 PM, Mark Haney wrote:
Paul Hartman wrote:
Also, there was at least one package that needed to be rebuilt despite
the fact revdep-rebuild didn't think so: media-libs/sdl-image
I'm curious to know if there are any more out there hiding...
Just for the record, did anyone e
On 08/25/2009 03:54 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Dienstag 25 August 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Only Catalyst has this problem. The open source Radeon drivers are fine
(and of course NVidia's closed drivers and everything Intel is fine
too). It's one of those Catalyst bug
On 08/25/2009 02:55 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Dienstag 25 August 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 08/25/2009 02:33 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Montag 24 August 2009, Sebastian Beßler wrote:
szal...@szalkai.net schrieb:
Now that this exciting little flamewar has finished, and
On 08/25/2009 02:33 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Montag 24 August 2009, Sebastian Beßler wrote:
szal...@szalkai.net schrieb:
Now that this exciting little flamewar has finished, and everybody is
friends again :), could you Duncan please give some examples of major
breakage in KDE4?
I'
ing http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Crossdev and when I use
the layman overlay, I need to create make.conf for that overlay ?? What
do I put in that make.conf. It's going to be for windows !!
Any advice?
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 08/17/2009 03:13 AM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
Hello all,
I haven&
On 08/17/2009 03:13 AM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
Hello all,
I haven't done this before, but I need to build a cross compiler for
c/c+ on gentoo, to produce windows executables. Is there an easy way to
this. Anyone, had success with a cross compiler ?
Thank you.
crossdev can do this.
On 08/11/2009 07:08 PM, Alex Bennee wrote:
Hi,
I'm having trouble running 32bit Wine when it involves OpenGL stuff.
It seems to run but I suspect the OpenGL calls that are made never get
anywhere and cause the emulated program to die. There doesn't seem to
be an emul package for building a 32bit
On 06/23/2009 10:21 PM, Markos Chandras wrote:
I'm baffled. This should have at least deserved some announcement. I'm
subscribed to mailing lists and all the feeds on gentoo.org (Planet
Gentoo and whatever.) Silence. This is not good. Someone has to
inform us every now and then about what's
On 06/23/2009 09:40 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
a simple grep for it in /usr/portage/porfiles
would have told you that
Btw, I don't see anything "simple" about it. I've no idea what
/usr/portage/porfiles is, or why it doesn't even exist here. You could
as well have asked to a "simple" g
On 06/23/2009 09:40 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Dienstag 23 Juni 2009, Mark Haney wrote:
Okay, I took a week off to hit my beach house in the Outer Banks and now
I'm back and ready to roll. I was in the middle of my KDE 4.2.4 upgrade
when I left (most is done, just a few things like kdee
On 06/23/2009 06:01 PM, Mark Haney wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 06/23/2009 05:09 PM, Mark Haney wrote:
No, it isn't. Just proceed with the re-emerge.
[...]
So with kdeprefix set why am I suddenly seeing this:
[ebuild U ] kde-base/kmplot-4.2.4 [4.2.3] USE="handboo
On 06/23/2009 05:09 PM, Mark Haney wrote:
Okay, I took a week off to hit my beach house in the Outer Banks and now
I'm back and ready to roll. I was in the middle of my KDE 4.2.4 upgrade
when I left (most is done, just a few things like kdeedu-meta need to be
merged) and now I find that when I g
On 06/21/2009 02:01 AM, John P. Burkett wrote:
Today on an amd64 machine I tried "emerge -eav system". The process
ended with the following message:
[...]
* Found kernel source directory:
* /usr/src/linux
* Could not find a Makefile in the kernel source directory.
* Please ensure that
On 06/17/2009 10:19 PM, Dmitri Pogosyan wrote:
2. Perfectly fast X/virtual console switching - I mean - Wow! I still, from
time to time, just sit there switching between the two a couple times just
to watch the speed and smoothness - it's amazing...
I wonder, what are the negatives of moving mo
On 06/17/2009 09:48 PM, Sebastian Redl wrote:
James Ausmus wrote:
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Nikos Chantziarasmailto:rea...@arcor.de>> wrote:
Just as a note - the Radeon KMS uses a different implementation path
than the Intel KMS - Intel, in the kernel, uses GEM for gfx memory
managemen
On 06/17/2009 08:35 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Good stuff.
So guessing about the path:
1) Kernel get KMS.
2) Xorg-X11 develops and tests for awhile. (probably on-going now?)
Yup, it's working already because Intel graphics chips already had KMS
for a while now. It's already in Ubuntu and Fedora
On 06/12/2009 10:52 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Freitag 12 Juni 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 06/12/2009 09:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
[...]
nothing with none exception. I had to set up dmix a long time ago, then
it worked automagically.. but blocking apps? nope.
Without
On 06/12/2009 09:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
[...]
nothing with none exception. I had to set up dmix a long time ago, then it
worked automagically.. but blocking apps? nope.
Without dmix everything blocks. After I've set it up, I was still
ending up with applications going silent while
On 06/12/2009 08:43 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Freitag 12 Juni 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 06/12/2009 07:58 PM, Beso wrote:
finally, 4.3 will mark the removal of my old 3.5 installation. i think
that for about 90% of people will be finally able to switch entirely to
kde4. The
On 06/12/2009 07:58 PM, Beso wrote:
finally, 4.3 will mark the removal of my old 3.5 installation. i think
that for about 90% of people will be finally able to switch entirely to
kde4. The apps are now mostly complete and the 3.5 apps that are still
maintained have now been ported; plasma is ok a
On 06/12/2009 09:40 AM, Keith Jackson wrote:
I am getting the following error. I don't want X on my system, it's a
server box, but i do want mono. Perhaps I'm dumb, but from this error
message I can't figure out how to tell it that yes, I want mono, and no,
I don't want X, and yes, I want to upda
On 06/11/2009 11:07 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
I can give you examples why it is good:
-you can have multiple versions of kde installed
*If* you want multiple versions.
- it makes updates risk free. You go from X.Y.Z to X.Y.Z+1 or X.Y+1 - and
before you do so, you just copy the whole k
On 06/11/2009 12:30 PM, Duncan wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann posted
200906110022.26698.volkerar...@googlemail.com, excerpted below, on Thu,
11 Jun 2009 00:22:26 +0200:
On Donnerstag 11 Juni 2009, Greg wrote:
I've been having trouble determining if my processor has
hyper-threading. I'm thinking
On 06/11/2009 01:35 AM, Greg wrote:
One final thought / question / observation along the same lines...
This is what got me started on this line of thinking / research...
I have experimented with posix threads and find repeatedly that even a
multi-threaded application yields results the same
as
On 06/10/2009 06:05 AM, John P. Burkett wrote:
Thank you, Duncan. I share your preference for open source programs.
I'm not sure how the ati-drivers got on my machine or what they were
doing. If my system functions without them, I'm happy to be rid of them.
You should know if you're using them
John P. Burkett wrote:
Doing "emerge --empty-tree world" evoked the following response:
emerge: error: no such option: --empty-tree
Just use "-e" instead.
Herbert Laubner wrote:
Hi List,
has somebody a soltution how to get fglrx running on kernel 2.6.29-r5?
On 2.6.28-r5, I have no problem. It seems, that ATI has not modified for
the new kernel up till now.
There's a patch for this, but it results in the driver spamming dmesg
with about a dozen
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
A Linux developer sent me a program asking me to build and run the
executable on one of my Windows boxes. I have some hardware he wants
to test and we worked together on the Linux version this way. Anyway,
his make files seem to require cross compiler tools that I don't
John P. Burkett wrote:
Today on an amd64 machine I did
emerge -D -uav world
and got a response including the following lines:
[...]
I would be grateful for suggestions about how to resolve this blockage.
The rule of thumb: "by unmerging all packages that have the blockers and
running 'emerge -
Mark Haney wrote:
I updated to FF 3.0.10 yesterday and didn't see any problems on the
compile. However, I've noticed that certain sites don't display text
properly, it just shows strange characters.
I've seen that problem before and re-emerge FF. But, on the re-emerge I
saw this in my terminal
Frank Peters wrote:
On Tue, 19 May 2009 15:18:13 +0200
Branko Badrljica wrote:
I have /var/tmp on ext4 with delayed allocation on ext4 and 8GB RAM.
For me tmpfs wasn't worth the hassle, so i dropped it. I couldn't tell
the difference.
In all this discussion about tmpfs, there has been no men
Branko Badrljica wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I'm on ext4 with delayed allocation enabled, but I still see GUI
lock-ups when emerging without tmpfs (and I do have nice 19 and ionice
idle). There are a few lock-ups even with tmpfs, but not as severe as
without it. But I do have 6G
Branko Badrljica wrote:
Alex Alexander wrote:
most packages build fine with a 768M tmpfs :)
if you plan on compiling big stuff like gcc you'll need to make it
larger or unmount it though.
With ext4 useable, is it still practicall to fiddle with thmfs for
building ?
Ext4 can be configured s
Mark Haney wrote:
I've been extremely busy lately and have let my updates get way behind.
Part of that is my need to keep kde-libs-3.5 on my system for K3b, etc,
part of that is just too much else to do.
The problem I've encountered is when I try to do an update while I'm
working, my system can
Sebastian Redl wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Sebastian Redl wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know a 64-bit free media player (or other utility) that can
dereference reference MOVs? I can't seem to find anything via Google. I
want to download a movie trailer for offline viewing, but find m
Sebastian Redl wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know a 64-bit free media player (or other utility) that can
dereference reference MOVs? I can't seem to find anything via Google. I
want to download a movie trailer for offline viewing, but find myself
thwarted.
A URL to an example would be helpful.
Daiajo Tibdixious wrote:
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Bob Sanders wrote:
Daiajo Tibdixious, mused, then expounded:
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Bob Sanders wrote:
Daiajo Tibdixious, mused, then expounded:
I thought of that, its in make.conf & emerge --info.
To be sure I rebuild sun
Martin Herrman wrote:
Thank you all for your thoughts/experiences. I concluded that I just
shouldn't use the ext4 driver or convert my filesystem. I just
re-installed my notebook with Ubuntu 9.04 and choose ext4. Don't
really measure a difference, but I rarely use that machine.
For a benchmark
Martin Herrman wrote:
All,
After reading this:
http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#Converting_an_ext3_filesystem_to_ext4
do you have any experience with mounting your ext3 filesystems using the
ext4 module? Is the performance improvement noticeable?
There isn't because the exis
Frank Peters wrote:
Since I would only want to relocate a relatively small number of packages,
another solution I am considering is to emerge with the option
--buildpkgonly to create a binary package. This package can then be
unpacked to the desired location. Also, sed can be used to change all
Florian Philipp wrote:
Wil Reichert schrieb:
[...]
Funny, I always thought the 'defaults' in the 4th column was a no-op,
kinda like 'none' in the device column for tmpfs. Seems its got other
implications -
defaults
Use default options: rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, and async
Harry Holt wrote:
Well I'm still working on trying various things. I decided to go ahead
and enable PCI_LEGACY to get xorg, etc. all in place and then try
disabling to see if things still worked. Unfortunately I ran into this:
* The current ati-drivers don't compile when having
* paravirtu
Harry Holt wrote:
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <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 k
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: http://bugs.gentoo.org/
P.V.Anthony wrote:
Did a emerge --sync and emerge -pv --update --deep world and noticed
that glibc and glib needs to be upgraded.
The current version of glibc is 2.6.1 and it needs to be upgraded to
version 2.8_p20080602-r1.
As for glib, the version is 2.18.4 and it needs to be upgraded to
Rudmer van Dijk wrote:
On Friday 20 March 2009, Tiago Santos wrote:
that happens due to a gcc-4.3.3-r1 bug, which is already fixed, but had no
version bump
so just re-emerge your gcc and then mplayer will compile fine
Any idea why there was no version bump for gcc? it would have saved a lot of
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