On 2013-10-01 08:16, Alan McKinnon wrote:
There are many examples in /usr you could have used to illustrate your
point, such as many fuse modules. And yet you chose an imaginary space
invader game.
Let's rather stick within the bounds of what is feasible, OK?
What can I say, I like to
On 2013-09-30 04:05, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
It's true that it's nice to have a semblance of order where different parts
go.
But all libraries and binaries in /usr is also a semblance of order. You
don't
separate stuff for the sake of separating stuff. You separate them because you
have
On 2013-09-30 00:04, Alan McKinnon wrote:
It's the general idea that you can leave /usr unmounted until some
random arb time later in the startup sequence and just expect things to
work out fine that is broken.
It just happened to work OK for years because nothing happened to use
the code
On 2013-09-30 09:32, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I never mentioned /var at all.
Go back and read again what I did write.
I'm quite aware what you wrote. If you only read what I wrote... English
is not my native language but the word *may* surely cannot be
misunderstood? Ok, I'll make it simple:
If
On 2013-09-30 08:45, Alan McKinnon wrote:
That is over-simplifying the problem and trivializing it. No-one ever
said the *everythign* in /usr is criticial for boot.
Is it really over-simplyfying it? How am I supposed to know whatever
comes next? Someone (upstream) *may* find it boot-critical
On 2013-09-29 08:06, Walter Dnes wrote:
What kind of insane udev maintainership do we have? And can we fix it?
By starting from scratch and putting it in the kernel (which will stop
people from being too creative as well, since Linus will not allow
things to break so easily). The BSDs, MacOS
On 2013-09-29 12:59, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
look at history, think and retry.
That's just what I did. Read and retry.
Best regards
Peter K
On 2013-09-29 18:36, Dale wrote:
That could be the problem then couldn't it?
Indeed. :-)
Best regards
Peter K
On 2013-09-29 01:23, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
the correct and simple solution would be to deprecate /usr and move
everything into / .
Install Windows and be done with it, I say.
Best regards
Peter K
On 2013-09-29 02:01, Dale wrote:
Next, we'll have to have C: even tho we never had to have one before.
ROFLMBO
I would hesitate to laugh because that's where Linux is heading... And
Alan and other's are right in that it's not udevs problem per se; it's
all the half-desktop
On 2013-08-19 00:49, Dale wrote:
Picking random message sort of. Isn't eudev still going to support a
separate /usr? That is my understanding. If eudev is not then I may
have to reconsider some things myself here.
Yes, that is my understanding as well. But the decision to not support
a
On 2013-08-19 08:35, Alan McKinnon wrote:
sysvinit, like X11, needs a massive overhaul and a sprint clean.
Yes, an overhaul is always welcome. But most people criticising these
systems (and other systems) just say that they are bad without pointing
out what is bad. How can you fix something
On 2013-08-19 04:55, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
Probably for exactly the same reason you or anyone else uses Gentoo;
USE flags, portage, you can customize at your hearts content...
USE flags, in my mind, are there for minimising dependencies so that I
don't need to install all the crap that
On 2013-08-19 11:21, Stroller wrote:
Blimey! You must have a slow BIOS cycle.
Yes, I bought the motherboard specifically for a slow BIOS cycle... ;-)
Joke aside, I have a SAS raid card in the machine which probes the
harddrives (four mechanical ones) which takes maybe half that time. I've
been
On 2013-08-19 12:04, Alan McKinnon wrote:
It's not that separate /usr is broken - it's not.
I know.
The issue is a separate /usr without an initramfs. And the issue ONLY
occurs at early-boot time.
It is broken for *some* systems.
The problem is that with modern hardware much code that was
to whine about it as well. A hint
for the future: Try to get off your high horse!
/PK
On 2013-08-18 11:44, Daniel Campbell wrote:
Systemd has a monolithic design, is headed by an egotist with no respect
for other developers, and cannibalizes other projects. The projects it
can't cannibalize will be strongarmed into irrelevance. Couple this with
Red Hat employees working on
On 2013-08-18 23:08, Mick wrote:
I honestly cannot understand why we/Gentoo are allowing the RHL
monolithic development philosophy to break what we have. Is
Poettering the only developer available to the Linux world? Are
RHL dictating what path Debian and its cousin distros should
follow?
On 2013-08-13 16:05, Alessio Ababilov wrote:
/usr merge is the process of making /bin, /sbin, and /lib to be symlinks
to corresponding directories in /usr. It is done in Fedora and several
other distros now, and also in Solaris 15 years ago.
Benefits from /usr merge are described here:
On 2013-08-03 14:28, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 08:34:11PM +0100, Steven J. Long wrote:
While I (and others BTW) was trying to provide an external POV with
points to make outside contributions and rectruitement more efficient,
you guys @gentoo.org turned this thread into
On 2013-07-20 01:23, luis jure wrote:
hehe... i guess neil meant that in average for each Tb you have in your
disk, only 125Mb is really important or useful. the rest is crap that just
piles up...
No, 1Tb = 125GB (note the difference between Tb = Tbit and TB=TByte)...
Best regards
Peter K
On 2013-07-20 13:59, luis jure wrote:
the average home user has lots of useless crap. i know
*i* do...
Yes, I do too... So the answer is smaller disks in order not to
accumulate so much crap! ;-)
Best regards
Peter K
On 2013-06-26 10:17, Alan McKinnon wrote:
ATI display to get away from nVidia, I think that was a mistake and next
time will be going back to nVidia whose power management actually works.
Just a small note:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTM5NjE
Best regards
Peter K
On 2013-06-15 00:23, luis jure wrote:
hello list.
any ideas how to install a recent version of jabref? the latest ebuild is
for 2.6 (current stable is 2.9, even ubuntu has a newer version...), and
that doesn't even compile because it needs a recent version of pdfbox (the
one in portage
On 2013-05-10 03:11, Walter Dnes wrote:
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util
fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
I've repartitioned it 3 or 4 times, but it still comes up with that
error when I fire up fdisk. Is it a problem, and if so, can I dd a
On 2013-01-11 22:28, James wrote:
Newegg said it was new
Ok. What I was trying to say was that I've had a motherboard shipped as
new to me but when it arrived I noticed it was used.
Ram is as spec'd: G.skill Ares F-1866C10D-16BAB. 4 modules all
slots full summing to 32G.
Try one
On 2013-01-11 19:48, James wrote:
Is there a listing of jumpers or other install
tips that I can find somewhere for this mobo?
I meticulously connected everything, as this is not
my first RODEO. I've never had a new mobo in the box without the
little install guide book.bummer .
Are
On 2012-12-28 00:24, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
Well, yeah, that's the point. I want to install Gentoo in my mother's
PC, and never have to go to her house because someting broke.
I really don't have the time nor the inclination to continue this but...
Why would you in that case install Gentoo
On 2012-12-28 20:01, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
Because I prefer Gentoo?
That's what I really don't understand! You say you don't want to care
about the system which implies Fedora or any other install-and-forget
distro. I care about the system which is why I run Gentoo. Do you have
USE=* in
On 2012-12-27 02:14, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
I really think that's the crux of the matter Pandou: udev/systemd
serves to the wants of the many. The eudev fork serves to the wants of
systemd+udev serves the large mass (users of mainly Fedora and other
distros using systemd) that doesn't
On 2012-12-26 12:55, Neil Bothwick wrote:
That all makes sense, although it may well be harder to implement
than to suggest. To be fair to the udev developers, we owe them
nothing and they are free to take their project in whichever
direction they like and spend their time on whatever
On 2012-12-17 17:23, Walter Dnes wrote:
snipped a whole lot...
1) Despite the TV being native 1366x768, it defaults to 1280x720, which
is the first mode listed in the EDID. Fixed-pixel displays show best at
their native resolution So I ran Xorg -configure and created an
xorg.conf file, and
On 2012-12-14 17:53, Mark Knecht wrote:
I guess the other question that's lurking here for me is why do you
have /usr on a separate partition? What's the usage model that drives
a person to do that? The most I've ever done is move /usr/portage and
/usr/src to other places. My /usr never has
On 2012-11-13 04:20, Dale wrote:
Well, it appears we have someone willing to fork udev.
Yeppie !! Me, I'm looking forward to seeing how this
works and giving it a test run when it gets ready.
Since it is a fork, shouldn't be to long, I hope.
Beautiful news indeed! Thanks for the heads up
On 2012-11-11 08:33, 微蔡 wrote:
byebye haters . Comunitiy doesn't need people like you.
Ah, instead of a rational explanation of what kind of problem systemd
solves for me you conclude: I'm a hater?... Well, I do hate solutions
looking for problems to solve, especially where there are none to
On 2012-11-11 13:24, Jorge Almeida wrote:
or later, but isn't it a nice coincidence that this perl is a product of the
same totalitarian mindset that is determined to poison Linux?
Can't we just calm down and try to be reasonably nice? I really didn't
intend to start a flame war here... I just
On 2012-11-11 13:52, 微蔡 wrote:
ok , then why hate systemd ? you seems to hate systemd with no reason.
This is my last reply to this thread. I dislike systemd, for the reasons
I've already stated. Please re-read my responses if you want to know why
I dislike systemd. What I do _hate_ is being
On 2012-11-10 03:03, walt wrote:
:) systemd is coming whether you or I like it or not so I'm trying to
stay a bit ahead of the tsunami, that's all.
Yes, systemd may be coming and may even become mandatory for the Linux
kernel (given it's marriage with udev). when that comes, I'd rather go
On 2012-11-09 20:00, James wrote:
passively cooled AMD/ATI video card (vendor-model?)
If you wish to use kms and mesa drivers, you can compare the current
status of various AMD chips here:
http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature#Feature_Matrix_for_Free_Radeon_Drivers
I got a Sapphire HD6670
On 2012-11-09 23:53, walt wrote:
You Lennart haters out there (and I was one of you not so long ago ;)
now I think he's not so bad after all. He just doesn't know yet how to
explain things properly to old farts.
Good for you. I really don't see the point in preaching systemd's
greatness (or
On 2012-01-05 21:44, Anthoine Bourgeois wrote:
Hello Peter,
2012/1/5 pk pete...@coolmail.se:
On 2012-01-04 22:28, Anthoine Bourgeois wrote:
I write on this list and hope someone can test these devices on Gentoo.
My overlay :
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=user/aluco.git
On 2012-11-02 19:42, James wrote:
snip all over...
I want it to be AMD-Gigabyte system. I've settled
on the new FX8350 processor. I ran across this mobo:
Triple Display Support – AMD Eyefinity
GIGABYTE FM2 series motherboards are the first to take advantage
On 2012-10-15 20:10, Walter Dnes wrote:
Which kernel version does the breakage start at, so I know not to rush
into it when it goes mainstream? Also, is there a walkthrough for
switching from Nvidia to Nouveau drivers? I couldn't get Nouveau
working when I first tried, which is why I'm
On 2012-08-02 18:25, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
If you want quality: buy something else.
If you are concerned about the prize: seriously, buy something else.
Hm, your experience with Kingston seems different than mine; I've had
nothing but problems with other brands _but_ Kingston and I've
On 2012-06-18 08:16, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
I plugged two 4TB SATA drives in and the BIOS hangs trying to display the
disk size.
Whether it is the size itself, or from using 4K blocks, I do not know.
This is a bit confusing. Do you mean to say that these are 4TB internal
drives (3.5)? I
On 2012-06-18 16:24, Michael Mol wrote:
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST4000DX000/dp/B005WX3NEU/
Seagate Barracuda 7200 4 TB 7200RPM SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 128MB Cache
3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive
Hm... then Seagate needs to update their product page:
On 2012-06-18 16:57, Michael Mol wrote:
I only posted the link to the Seagate drive, since that was the first
one that popped up in my search. Point is, the 4TB drives do exist.
Hm, now that you mentioned it I think I've read something about this a
while ago (long enough time has gone for me
On 2012-06-18 16:34, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
Hitachi, I think. Fry's had two choies differing in size of cache
(64M vs 32M) and some 3TB drives too. I could get the model numbers
when I get back to that system (not near it for a few days).
Ah, the deskstar 7K4000 is readily available on
On 2012-06-04 14:48, Mick wrote:
Can I please join you if you have a spare hat?
Sure, got lots of (virtual) hats... here's one: ^ (may be a bit small) ;-)
On a 3 year old Dell laptop manufactured by the famous and well
known Winbond Electronics /sarcasm I see this under lshw:
On 2012-06-02 09:43, Florian Philipp wrote:
You don't have to be blessed. You could call your distribution
BallmerSucks and still get a certificate. You just have to
register, authenticate and pay the fee. Anything else would earn
them an antitrust law suite they wouldn't forget.
... or
On 2012-06-02 15:12, Florian Philipp wrote:
According to [1] it is SHA-256 and RSA-2048. If I understand it
correctly, there are means to blacklist compromised keys. That's
why
Just curious, how is a compromised key supposed to be blacklisted?
Does the bios contact Microsoft, or is it
On 2012-06-02 22:10, Michael Mol wrote:
I expect the chief mechanism is at the manufacturer's end; blacklisted
keys get included on shipment.
Makes sense.
It's also probable that the OS kernel can tell the UEFI BIOS about new
keys to blacklist. I expect that'll be a recurring thing in the
On 2012-05-28 05:44, Pandu Poluan wrote:
But my newer servers has /run (and its children) from the get go, because I
think it kind of makes sense. Even though they're udev-free.
Hm... what is using /run instead of /var/run? I thought it was (newish)
udev itself and things like systemd that
On 2012-05-26 01:52, Peter Humphrey wrote:
$ elogviewer --help
File /usr/local/bin/elogviewer, line 11
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Huh? Mine (latest stable 0.5.2-r2, official Gentoo portage - not some
overlay) is installed in /usr/bin/...
Have you changed the install path or
On 2012-05-25 13:17, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2012-05-24 7:24 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
I just now started going through /var/log/portage/messages, and was
reminded of this thread.
It is much easier if you set up portage to email you these individually...
app-portage/elogviewer
On 2012-05-03 23:48, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
And anyway, if
you are using a desktop system you don't care where the drive mounts,
it just appears in your filemanager.
I have a desktop system but I don't have a filemanager installed and I
don't run an automounter. You assume everyone uses
On 2012-05-01 13:48, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
In an mdev system, getting USB device nodes working well enough to
support USB printers is tricky.
I have just added a section to the mdev wiki page
(http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev) explaining how to do this. Apologies
for any misuse of wiki
On 2012-04-21 04:12, Philip Webb wrote:
It's an Asus P5G41T-M LX the manual says :
Hm... the chipset on that mobo is G41 (released in 2008) and it combines
with ICH7 which unfortunately doesn't seem to support AHCI. Sorry...
Best regards
Peter K
On 2012-04-15 07:16, Dale wrote:
I have changed the root line to hd1,0 and it still boots sda. Other
settings result in a failure. It doesn't even try to boot.
What does your 'device.map' file say the sdb drive is mapped to? You
usually find the 'device.map' file in /boot/grub for both grub1
On 2012-04-15 07:16, Dale wrote:
Here's some linkies for you:
Grub2:
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Device-map.html
Grub1:
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/legacy/Device-map.html
Best regards
Peter K
On 2012-04-15 12:42, Dale wrote:
Uh oh Crap hits the fan, BIG TIME. That thing is still looking
So the computer blew up? ;-)
How's that for a head slapper?
A good one I'd say? ;-)
Glad you got it sorted.
Best regards
Peter K
On 2012-04-13 22:06, James wrote:
The seamonkey bookmarks.html (the current bookmark listing)
use to kept in
~/.mozilla/seamonkey/###.default
I cannot find a newer listing than 2011 in that location.
Did it get moved to another location? Remaned yet again?
What I'm after is
On 2012-04-01 13:19, pat wrote:
I have experiences with Swing UI and I'll suggest NetBeans.
I guess I'll go with that. It's just that it wants to pull in around 100
packages (with only apisupport, ide, java and nb modules)... :-/
Oh, well.
Thanks!
Best regards
Peter K
On 2012-04-01 19:26, walt wrote:
Yes, that's a bit of a pain. I install the binary package from here:
http://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html
Running the installer as an ordinary user installs the whole thing in
~/NetBeans and it even updates itself if you want it to.
Ah, cool! Thanks!
Hi,
Does anyone on this list have experience with java (swing) gui-builders
and what would you recommend, if so? It seems Netbeans is the only
option in Portage that I can find, are there other options? I'm looking
for an easy way to build a reasonably advanced gui.
Best regards
Peter K
On 2012-03-29 01:20, Neil Bothwick wrote:
I'm in favour of /bin and /lib, and I see the pros and cons of
/sbin and am not too bothered about how that is done. But having
two (or more) of each of these is an artificial mess that is a
solution to a problem that
As I said, it's a matter of
On 2012-03-29 20:06, Neil Bothwick wrote:
I wait with bated breath. Even if less than perfect, it will be
better than mine :)
I'll be sure to let you know if I find perfection... Perhaps an AI
system that takes care of it self and serves me drinks (with or
without an umbrella) while I lay on
On 2012-03-29 22:58, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Reminds me of Sigourney Weaver's character in Galaxy Quest - she was
the bimbo who announced to the room whenever the computer went bing
:-D
An underrated movie which contains a lot of geek and Star Trek/SciFi
in general parody... Thumbs up! :-D
Best
On 2012-03-28 20:29, Mike Edenfield wrote:
I was particularly interested to find out that Solaris started merging / and
/usr 15 years ago, so in reality, the true UNIX way that Linux is
following has long since been abandoned by UNIX :)
Yep, next up is transitioning to a more modern handling
On 2012-03-20 20:49, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
OK, I am not seeing mdev in the portage tree -- I would like to learn
more about this before I take the plunge. So where do I get it and does
it create the appropriate device nodes, etc?
mdev is part of sys-apps/busybox. See:
On 2012-03-18 04:11, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote:
Am I eternally confused?
I have no idea... besides, eternity is a long time... ;-)
su - change user ID or become superuser
It's not _only_ to become root (maybe theoretically if you only have one
normal user). On a true multiuser system you can
On 2012-03-17 11:19, Dale wrote:
The program 'su' could not be found.
Ensure your PATH is set correctly.
What does 'echo $PATH' give you? /bin should be in your path (that's
where 'su' is located, or should be)... My $PATH looks like this:
On 2012-03-17 19:38, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
you know, with that 'put everything into /usr' crap going on, I don't see any
reason to have a seperate /usr at all. /root is completely empty. So what?
Put
everything on one partition and go on.
Yes, let's do away with partitions
On 2012-03-17 21:09, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
seriously, you have seemed to miss some news. There is a move by redhatco to
move almost everything from / to /usr. With nothing left than some
mountpoints
- why put / on its own partition? There is nothing to contain apart from
/etc.
On 2012-03-14 19:45, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
BIOS is going the way of the dodo too, but that's besides the point.
I'm actually quite happy with the Linux bluetooth stack (which, if I'm
not mistaken, is used by Android). I have several bluetooth thingies,
they all work great.
Sorry, but
On 2012-03-14 20:45, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
Actually, a Lego brick is a good analogy for mdev (in its current
state). It's a beautiful toy; but again, nobody has pointed out how to
make it work with bluetooth devices, for example. From Walt's mail
(his words, not mine):
You're completely
On 2012-03-13 08:13, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I've also thought about this and I also want to ask why?
Hm... me too? :-)
I stopped using a separate /usr on my workstations a long time ago when
I realized it was pointless. The days of 5M hard disks when the entire
Ok, you realized it was
On 2012-03-11 20:28, Walter Dnes wrote:
which blob to load. But, if I leave only the correct blob for my GPU in
the library folder (move/delete all the others), it loads properly
without any help from udev.
Why not compile the firmware into the kernel?
On 2012-03-11 15:17, Alan McKinnon wrote:
As such, mdev is a good fit and we can add Walter to the long list of
people before him who selflessly worked to make our software work
better.
Very well put, Alan! +1
Thanks Walter!
Best regards
Peter K
On 2012-03-12 10:24, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
#!/bin/busybox ash
mount -t proc proc /proc
mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys
exec /sbin/init
How do I know whether my /sbin/linuxrc actually ran? Maybe, I mean how
can I be sure my append = init=/sbin/linuxrc actually worked?
Well, you can always put
On 2012-03-11 03:36, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
This news item is to inform you that once you upgrade to a version of
udev =181, if you have /usr on a separate partition, you must boot your
system with an initramfs which pre-mounts /usr.
Ok, I thank both you and Neil for this info. In
On 2012-03-10 03:48, Dale wrote:
Howdy,
Howdy!
this? I'm thinking about redoing my partition layout. I'm wanting to
keep / (root) on a normal ext4 file system. I want to put /usr, /var,
As long as you don't use the udev version that requires access to /usr
at boot time (or mdev) then you
On 2012-03-10 16:35, Neil Bothwick wrote:
I'm using the latest testing with a separate /usr and no problems.
So udev-181 (masked) is ok to use without initrd and separate /usr
then? Thanks for the info!
Best regards
Peter K
On 2012-02-24 17:34, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
Hi. I have a Supermicro c7P67-o motherboard and I have another system
using windows with no problems. However, when I am trying to use the
board with gentoo -- various kernels -- including 3.2.6-gentoo -- I am
having lots of problems with
On 2012-02-24 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
user can watch. Flash on the other hand guarantees web designers that a
PC user can watch their videos. Having a guarantee that something works
is a very powerful incentive; you do not abandon something that works.
It's only guaranteed if flash is
On 2012-02-18 13:24, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
basically, yes. Take down the core routers and backbones and everything falls
apart.
Which is easier said than done, IMO... but on the other hand, five of
the major tier 1's is in the good old USA so if you take those down you
still have five
On 2012-02-12 09:51, Kfir Lavi wrote:
I'm trying to play a mkv movie that is encoded with x264 720p.
The movie get out of sync very quickly.
Is it just this particular video that gets out of sync or does other
videos have the same symptoms? If it's only this video, then I would say
it's the
Currently poppler-0.18.1 (keyworded since it was required by
libreoffice) is installed on my system and when I sync'ed yesterday
Portage wants to downgrade poppler to latest stable -0.16.7 which is not
a problem per se (I run a mostly stable system). However looking at the
version bump bug
On 2012-01-29 15:23, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Yes indeed, someone screwed up. Either:
The submitter pasted the wrong list of bugs into the report or
Forgot to mention that the bug number are not from b.g.o, but from some
other bugzilla
The first one for example - 288045 - comes from
On 2012-01-29 17:12, Philip Webb wrote:
0.18.1 has been removed from the tree 0.18.3 is the latest Testing.
I'm conservative re system + similar pkgs, so still use 0.16.7 .
Yes, that's clear. It was the links in the bug report that made me wonder...
Best regards
Peter K
On 2012-01-26 12:22, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I'm not opening up a debate and preparing an argument, I really want to
know what you think about this matter.
I apologize for butting in...
Here's what *I* think about it (well, this is not about Pulseaudio
specifically but I'm sure you'll get the
On 2012-01-25 10:38, denis cohen wrote:
I am trying to install freecad which pulls in dev-cpp/eigen-3.0.3.
I get a filesize error which prevents installation of eigen.
Any clues on how to solve this problem?
ebuild manifest path-to-eigen.ebuild IIRC... try man ebuild.
Best regards
Peter K
On 2012-01-09 00:48, Walter Dnes wrote:
Hm... if you didn't compile it in you would have needed an initrd;
didn't think of that... :-(
* with only one binary blob. it just works
* multiple blobs should not be included in the kernel, otherwise it gets
confused. If multiple blobs are
On 2012-01-09 10:47, Pandu Poluan wrote:
Is it possible to load the firmware blob after booting, from the shell?
I don't think so; KMS needs it to talk to the gpu so either it needs to
be in an initrd (loaded with the KMS/framebuffer module) or compiled in.
That's how I understand it anyway...
On 2012-01-07 02:17, Walter Dnes wrote:
I think I've found one item so far that requires udev. My laptop's
graphics chip needs a binary blob from radeon-ucode. That binary blob,
in turn, requires the presence of /usr/lib/libudev.so.0 which is a
symlink to /usr/lib/libudev.so.0.9.3 (which
On 2012-01-05 08:43, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I fiddle around a lot with the hardware on those and udev deals with
that nicely considering udev is designed to deal with that nicely.
I confess to being quite ignorant when it comes to what magic udev does
behind the scenes but what makes it
On 2012-01-05 12:46, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I switch on a modern computer and it:
- loads a feature rich OS (UEFI) from a fixed point in firmware which
then
- loads a feature rich OS (grub2) from a fixed point on a storage
device which then
This is a precise argument why coreboot (and
On 2012-01-05 13:08, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I don't claim any special deep knowledge of these things, but a
superficial glance over the packages tells you a lot. udev is designed
to deal with any realistic device needs on modern systems - it's the
kitchen sink.
Fully agree... :-/
On 2012-01-05 15:03, Dale wrote:
I'll take the plain old fart title. lol Drs think my body is at
least 70 anyway. I think my brain is old to but that's not what they
test, YET. o_O
Here's the condensed version of what's happening (laughing is good for
you or so I hear):
On 2012-01-05 17:20, Dale wrote:
rm -rf /usr /lib/nvidia-current/xorg/xorg
ROFLMAO. That one space bar hit caused a bit of trouble. WOW. I would
have been pretty pissed. lol
Yes, buy it's the comments (and pictures) below that made me laugh...
the link is a definite keeper... :-D
Best
1 - 100 of 364 matches
Mail list logo
