Re: [gentoo-user] ATI RV710/730

2010-06-24 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 06/23/2010 11:47 PM, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 23 June 2010 09:08:02 Daniel Troeder wrote: >> On 06/07/2010 01:33 AM, James wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have this ati card. I'm having trouble finding a stable >>> ati-driver + xorg-server combination that will compile. >>> >>> >>> Any recommendat

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 24.06.2010 05:04, schrieb kashani: > That's works. :-) I was doing a fair amount of rpm building, svn to > git with large trees, kickstart, Mysql, and Puppet work at a job a few > months ago which was hitting the host fairly hard. Between the above and > Outlook getting an extra drive to is

[gentoo-user] who wants to downgrade my gcc ?

2010-06-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, this one is puzzling me. I have gcc-4.4.4-r1 installed here. emerge -vp sys-devel/gcc:4.4 would re-install this. But, an emerge --update --newuse --deep --tree --with-bdeps y @system @world wants to downgrade it to gcc-4.4.3-r3 How can I find out, why? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- H

Re: [gentoo-user] who wants to downgrade my gcc ?

2010-06-24 Thread Thomas U. Nockmann
On Thursday 24 June 2010 Helmut Jarausch wrote: [...] Hello, > But, > an emerge --update --newuse --deep --tree --with-bdeps y @system > @world wants to downgrade it to gcc-4.4.3-r3 > > How can I find out, why? What does `equery d gcc` say? \|||/ `@|@`thomas -

Re: [gentoo-user] who wants to downgrade my gcc ?

2010-06-24 Thread Dale
Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, this one is puzzling me. I have gcc-4.4.4-r1 installed here. emerge -vp sys-devel/gcc:4.4 would re-install this. But, an emerge --update --newuse --deep --tree --with-bdeps y @system @world wants to downgrade it to gcc-4.4.3-r3 How can I find out, why? Many thanks f

Re: [gentoo-user] who wants to downgrade my gcc ?

2010-06-24 Thread Dale
Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, this one is puzzling me. I have gcc-4.4.4-r1 installed here. emerge -vp sys-devel/gcc:4.4 would re-install this. But, an emerge --update --newuse --deep --tree --with-bdeps y @system @world wants to downgrade it to gcc-4.4.3-r3 How can I find out, why? Many thanks f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Failed to emerge xulrunner-1.9.2.4

2010-06-24 Thread Chen Huan
thanks, it is the problem 2010/6/23 walt > On 06/22/2010 10:01 PM, Chen Huan wrote: > >> When I emerge xulrunner-1.9.2.4 and mozilla-firefox-3.6.4,xulrunner cannot >> be emerged, here is the error message: >> >> ./../../dist/bin/js: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3' not >> found (req

Re: [gentoo-user] who wants to downgrade my gcc ?

2010-06-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:57:55 +0200, Thomas U. Nockmann wrote: > > But, > > an emerge --update --newuse --deep --tree --with-bdeps y @system > > @world wants to downgrade it to gcc-4.4.3-r3 > > > > How can I find out, why? > > What does `equery d gcc` say? What does emerge --update --newuse -

Re: [gentoo-user] who wants to downgrade my gcc ?

2010-06-24 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:57:55 +0200, Thomas U. Nockmann wrote: But, an emerge --update --newuse --deep --tree --with-bdeps y @system @world wants to downgrade it to gcc-4.4.3-r3 How can I find out, why? What does `equery d gcc` say? What does emerge --u

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions re swap and hibernate interaction on 8 gig machine

2010-06-24 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag, 22. Juni 2010 schrieb Walter Dnes: > I just got a brand new custom-built 8 gig machine. [...] > Anyhow, I have 8 gigs of ram on the sytem (will obviously be 64-bit > Gentoo) and I want to know how much swap I need. The general rule of > thumb is twice the ram. In this case, it

[gentoo-user] Grub2 takes very long to make config or install

2010-06-24 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I followed now the wiki page: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2 At the step to create the config file with: grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg and install grub2 with: grub-install /dev/sda it needs several hours to complete each of the commands. Is this normal? Bye, Matthias -- "Pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 takes very long to make config or install

2010-06-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Matthias Fechner writes: > I followed now the wiki page: > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2 Down again. > At the step to create the config file with: > grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > and install grub2 with: > grub-install /dev/sda > > it needs several hours to complete each of th

Re: [gentoo-user] who wants to downgrade my gcc ?

2010-06-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:46:59 -0500, Dale wrote: > > What does emerge --update --newuse --deep --tree --with-bdeps y > > @world > > > > actually say? > I'm not sure this is correct but I have to ask this. Since gcc is a > system package, it wouldn't try to upgrade gcc even if one was > availabl

Re: [gentoo-user] who wants to downgrade my gcc ?

2010-06-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 24 June 2010 15:54:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:46:59 -0500, Dale wrote: > > > What does emerge --update --newuse --deep --tree --with-bdeps y > > > @world > > > > > > actually say? > > > > I'm not sure this is correct but I have to ask this. Since gcc is a > > s

Re: [gentoo-user] who wants to downgrade my gcc ?

2010-06-24 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:46:59 -0500, Dale wrote: What does emerge --update --newuse --deep --tree --with-bdeps y @world actually say? I'm not sure this is correct but I have to ask this. Since gcc is a system package, it wouldn't try to upgrade gcc even i

Re: [gentoo-user] who wants to downgrade my gcc ?

2010-06-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:12:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > @world includes @system. But the problem is not that emerge world is > > skipping it but that it wants to downgrade gcc:4.4. > > So obviously he has > > > or similar in a BDEPEND somewhere Which is why the actual output fro emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] who wants to downgrade my gcc ?

2010-06-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:22:56 -0500, Dale wrote: > > @world includes @system. But the problem is not that emerge world is > > skipping it but that it wants to downgrade gcc:4.4. > > > > From my understanding, world includes @system but @world does not. I > know here on my rig, I run emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] who wants to downgrade my gcc ?

2010-06-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 24 Jun, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:57:55 +0200, Thomas U. Nockmann wrote: > >> > But, >> > an emerge --update --newuse --deep --tree --with-bdeps y @system >> > @world wants to downgrade it to gcc-4.4.3-r3 >> > >> > How can I find out, why? >> >> What does `equery d gcc`

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 takes very long to make config or install

2010-06-24 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, Am 24.06.10 15:48, schrieb Alex Schuster: The old grub sometimes paused for around a minute because it searched for the floppy, the --no-floppy switch speeded this up. hm, that is a really good point, I found in dmesg in in the logfile, tones of the following lines: Jun 24 06:54:42 idefi

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to drive the VGA output

2010-06-24 Thread Matthias Krebs
Am Donnerstag 24 Juni 2010, 01:14:44 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: > Laptop: dell E6510 > Gentoo: ~amd64 > Graphics: nvidia VVS 3100M > > I am unable to drive the VGA output. Symptoms include > > * Executing "xrandr" does not mention LVDS or VGA > (and using --output VGA gives a warning that VGA

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to drive the VGA output

2010-06-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:02:13 +0200 Matthias Krebs wrote: > Am Donnerstag 24 Juni 2010, 01:14:44 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: >> Laptop: dell E6510 >> Gentoo: ~amd64 >> Graphics: nvidia VVS 3100M >> >> I am unable to drive the VGA output. Symptoms include >> >> * Executing "xrandr" does not men

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI RV710/730

2010-06-24 Thread Mick
On Thursday 24 June 2010 09:22:07 Daniel Troeder wrote: > On 06/23/2010 11:47 PM, Mick wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 June 2010 09:08:02 Daniel Troeder wrote: > >> On 06/07/2010 01:33 AM, James wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> I have this ati card. I'm having trouble finding a stable > >>> ati-driver +

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc build fails during emerge system on new 64-bit install

2010-06-24 Thread Mick
On Thursday 24 June 2010 00:33:24 Walter Dnes wrote: > This is my first attempt at 64-bit mode. I have a shiny new Intel i3 > with 8 gigs ram on an MSI motherboard. I got it custom-built locally in > north Toronto, rather than ordering from Dell. The MSI motherboard has > PS/2 ports (YES!!!) s

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to drive the VGA output (Solved)

2010-06-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:14:47 -0400 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > At Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:02:13 +0200 Matthias Krebs > wrote: > >> Am Donnerstag 24 Juni 2010, 01:14:44 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: >>> Laptop: dell E6510 >>> Gentoo: ~amd64 >>> Graphics: nvidia VVS 3100M >>> >>> I am unable to drive the

[gentoo-user] xorg segfaults if I have an encrypted volume mounted

2010-06-24 Thread Remy Blank
xorg started segfaulting here on startup, at the point where it should detect input devices: [ 1198.330] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer [ 1198.330] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_INTEL_swap_event [ 1198.330] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_SGI_make_current_read [ 1198.330] (II) AIGLX: GLX_EXT_t

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions re swap and hibernate interaction on 8 gig machine

2010-06-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 03:16:30PM +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote > I even have set up a ramdisk in /var/tmp/portage for emerge. Except > for kdelibs its 1.5 Gigs are more than enough. And if the ramdisk > is empty, the free space is used for RAM. Why not use the built-in /dev/shm directly, and

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc build fails during emerge system on new 64-bit install

2010-06-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 07:28:14AM +0100, Stroller wrote > On 24 Jun 2010, at 00:33, Walter Dnes wrote: > > ... The MSI motherboard has > > PS/2 ports (YES!!!) so I don't have to tearfully throw away my genuine > > IBM PS/2 "clickety-clack" keyboard. > > Your motherboard doesn't need native PS2 po

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gcc build fails during emerge system on new 64-bit install

2010-06-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:38:17PM +0100, Mick wrote > I'll repeat the advice I was given in this list sometime around last > Christmas (but can't find the thread now): you're bound to find some > pesky application which is only available in 32bit and then you'll > curse for having to reinstall.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gcc build fails during emerge system on new 64-bit install

2010-06-24 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:38:17PM +0100, Mick wrote I'll repeat the advice I was given in this list sometime around last Christmas (but can't find the thread now): you're bound to find some pesky application which is only available in 32bit and then you'll curse for havi