[gentoo-user] cxx/nocxx error building gcc-4.5.3-r1

2011-12-08 Thread Walter Dnes
I'm doing a fresh 32-bit install on an older Dell with an AMD K8, for experimentation. I'm getting a build failure on gcc as listed below. I start off my USE variable with -* and then add on stuff as necessary. A Google search turned up http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/dev/242446

Re: [gentoo-user] cxx/nocxx error building gcc-4.5.3-r1

2011-12-08 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, since you have not posted your specific USE-flags, it gets harder to help you. I think you could try to add cxx to your USE-flags. If the does not help you, you should post your USE-flags and eventually the output of emerge --info to make it

Re: [gentoo-user] cxx/nocxx error building gcc-4.5.3-r1

2011-12-08 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just for clarification: - -* means -cxx and -nocxx This can produce the failure you get. Therefore you should set cxx (normally you should want a c++ compiler). If you have -* cxx nocxx you will have to remove one of the two useflags. Hinnerk

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 3: GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE is too small.

2011-12-08 Thread Maximilian Bräutigam
Am 30.11.2011 13:24, schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer: glxinfo -l | grep MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE Hi Michael, GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE = 1024 is this enough? Kind regards, der Max

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 3: GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE is too small.

2011-12-08 Thread Maximilian Bräutigam
Am 30.11.2011 12:57, schrieb Albert W. Hopkins: On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 10:11 +0100, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: (2) Mesa is built with gallium and it is enables using eselect. AFAIK intel drivers didn't work (well) with gallium, at least I checked[1]. Anyway you might want to try the

[gentoo-user] Can't build firmware into kernel

2011-12-08 Thread Lavender
I'm being working out with building KDE environment recently. Now I need installing Xorg first. As the The X Server Configuration HOWTO says, if I use radeon card ,then I need emerge radeon-ucode or linux-firmware package. Then I need rebuild my kernel with External firmware blobs . My video

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread James Broadhead
On 8 December 2011 06:57, LinuxIsOne linuxis...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: I tried Ubuntu, hated this *so* much. I'm sure all the respondents were just trying to be helpful, but they made Ubuntu look like the distro of

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build firmware into kernel

2011-12-08 Thread James Broadhead
2011/12/8 Lavender lavender_mat...@163.com: I'm being working out with building KDE environment recently. Now I need installing Xorg first. As the The X Server Configuration HOWTO says, if I use radeon card ,then I need emerge radeon-ucode or linux-firmware package. Then I need rebuild my

[gentoo-user] How can I keep baselayout-1?

2011-12-08 Thread Jarry
Hi, I just upgraded gcc and after switching to the new version I want to update system too. But it wants to emerge baselayout-2 as dependency of system: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy sys-apps/baselayout have !!! been masked. One of the following masked packages is required !!! to complete

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I keep baselayout-1?

2011-12-08 Thread James Broadhead
On 8 December 2011 11:17, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I just upgraded gcc and after switching to the new version I want to update system too. But it wants to emerge baselayout-2 as dependency of system: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy sys-apps/baselayout have !!! been masked.

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering plain alsa [WAS:]: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using pulse audio

2011-12-08 Thread Dale
Francisco Ares wrote: Thank you all who replied my last messages. Now I am back to plain alsa, but no two programs can use it at the same time. Alsa drivers are built on the kernel, and I have the following packages installed: media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.24.1:0

Re:Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build firmware into kernel

2011-12-08 Thread Lavender
I maintain http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon , which should sort you out. If not, please post again I'll update the article to be more helpful. I'm sorry, cause the policy of Internet in my country, I can't open the webpage.Could you send it to me or use other methods?

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I keep baselayout-1?

2011-12-08 Thread Alex Schuster
James Broadhead writes: On 8 December 2011 11:17, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: I just upgraded gcc and after switching to the new version I want to update system too. But it wants to emerge baselayout-2 as dependency of system: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build firmware into kernel

2011-12-08 Thread James Broadhead
2011/12/8 Lavender lavender_mat...@163.com: I maintain http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon , which should sort you out. If not, please post again  I'll update the article to be more helpful. I'm sorry, cause the policy of Internet in my country, I can't open the webpage. Could you send

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 5:58 AM, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: The next time you have a problem with anything related to linux, follow a link to an Ubuntu user forum. Unfortunately, the quality of advice on them tends to be pretty low. :-( Really?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread James Broadhead
On 7 December 2011 15:58, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-12-07, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 6 December 2011, at 23:25, Grant Edwards wrote: ... The Ubuntu documentation seems to be mainly user-forum threads full of wrong answers posted by people

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:10 AM, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Especially in the past, they have allowed their political views on Open Source / Free Software to interfere with the best user experience[3]. [3] The whole concept of 'restricted extras' is detrimental to

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] recovering plain alsa [WAS:]: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using

2011-12-08 Thread frares
On , Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Francisco Ares wrote: Thank you all who replied my last messages. Now I am back to plain alsa, but no two programs can use it at the same time. Alsa drivers are built on the kernel, and I have the following packages installed:

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 08:55:48 -0500 LinuxIsOne linuxis...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 5:58 AM, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: The next time you have a problem with anything related to linux, follow a link to an Ubuntu user forum. Unfortunately, the quality of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 01:55:20 -0500 LinuxIsOne linuxis...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira spide...@gmail.com wrote: Going back to Ubuntu bashing, I think that the multiple versions, multiple repositories, multiple software choices (gnome 2,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread James Broadhead
On 8 December 2011 14:25, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:10 AM, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: Especially in the past, they have allowed their political views on Open Source / Free Software to interfere with the best user experience[3]. [3]

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I keep baselayout-1?

2011-12-08 Thread Jarry
On 08-Dec-11 12:26, James Broadhead wrote: I do not want to upgrade to baselayout-2, but I want to re-emerge system. So how can I do it now, when all 1.x versions have been removed from portage? I think that the standard answer is you can't. I mean, you could fetch an old copy of the ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] KDEPIM-4.7.3 hits the stable tree ... brrrrr!

2011-12-08 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 06:47:22AM +, Mick wrote: Following Alan's disastrous experience where he saw all his messages disappear before his eyes I am doubly cautious. Has anyone tried the migration to 4.7 yet? I installed my first 4.7.x kdepim on 30th of July. I was quite

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I keep baselayout-1?

2011-12-08 Thread James Broadhead
On 8 December 2011 14:41, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 08-Dec-11 12:26, James Broadhead wrote: I do not want to upgrade to baselayout-2, but I want to re-emerge system. So how can I do it now, when all 1.x versions have been removed from portage? I think that the standard answer is

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I keep baselayout-1?

2011-12-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:41:38 +0100 Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 08-Dec-11 12:26, James Broadhead wrote: I do not want to upgrade to baselayout-2, but I want to re-emerge system. So how can I do it now, when all 1.x versions have been removed from portage? I think that the

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Don't take our word for it, go look for yourself. I could give you examples of how that forum works, I could give you links that show what we are saying, but NOTHING can prepare you for what you really find on the

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread James Broadhead
On 8 December 2011 15:10, LinuxIsOne linuxis...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Don't take our word for it, go look for yourself. I could give you examples of how that forum works, I could give you links that show what we are

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I keep baselayout-1?

2011-12-08 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 15:41 +0100, Jarry wrote: Anyway I'm surprised that everything older than 2.0.3 has been simply thrown overboard, especially while it worked for us without a problem for many years... With all due respect, baselayout-2/openrc has been around for a while too (I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I keep baselayout-1?

2011-12-08 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/08/2011 09:41 AM, Jarry wrote: This server is ~50 miles away, and if I screw something and it does not boot up, I will have to go there and fix it on place. That's it? If you drive really awesome you can be there in half an hour!

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:18 AM, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: That's debatable; it generally means that the amount of time that passes before they realise that Linux is not Windows is increased. It definitely gets them booted into a desktop environment quicker, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:35 AM, LinuxIsOne linuxis...@gmail.com wrote: That's debatable; it generally means that the amount of time that passes before they realise that Linux is not Windows is increased. It definitely gets them booted into a desktop environment quicker, but it doesn't really

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:18 AM, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 December 2011 15:10, LinuxIsOne linuxis...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Don't take our word for it, go look for yourself. I could give you

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:36 AM, LinuxIsOne linuxis...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:35 AM, LinuxIsOne linuxis...@gmail.com wrote: That's debatable; it generally means that the amount of time that passes before they realise that Linux is not Windows is increased. It definitely

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I keep baselayout-1?

2011-12-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 8, 2011 9:46 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: This server is ~50 miles away, and if I screw something and it does not boot up, I will have to go there and fix it on place. One small typo in ~50 config-files which must be updated is just enough to cause it... That's why I no longer

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: As long as we're talking about *you*, and not about someone you're setting things up for, here's what I'd suggest: 1) Keep your existing Ubuntu setup operational, at least for a while. Gentoo isn't something you should

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
2011/12/8 LinuxIsOne linuxis...@gmail.com: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Don't take our word for it, go look for yourself. I could give you examples of how that forum works, I could give you links that show what we are saying, but NOTHING can

Re: [gentoo-user] KDEPIM-4.7.3 hits the stable tree ... brrrrr!

2011-12-08 Thread Yang
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Thankfully eselect news spells it out and this link makes me thing twice about my next steps:  http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDEPIM-4.7_upgrade Following Alan's disastrous experience where he saw all his messages disappear

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Lorenzo Bandieri lorenzo.bandi...@gmail.com wrote: Well, maybe my experience will be useful to you. Ubuntu was my introduction to linux. First, I'll start by saying that before linux I didn't know absolutely nothing about computers and the like. I had my first

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Indi thebeelzebubtrig...@gmail.com wrote: Whaddayatawkinbout, gentoo is more than great, it's awesome! Gentoo isn't intended for beginners, and makes no claims about user friendliness of which I'm aware. Generally speaking, making things user friendly entails

[gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-12-08, LinuxIsOne linuxis...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 5:58 AM, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: The next time you have a problem with anything related to linux, follow a link to an Ubuntu user forum. Unfortunately, the quality of advice on them tends to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-12-08, LinuxIsOnelinuxis...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 5:58 AM, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: The next time you have a problem with anything related to linux, follow a link to an Ubuntu user forum. Unfortunately, the quality of

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 3: GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE is too small.

2011-12-08 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi, Am Donnerstag, 8. Dezember 2011, 10:30:14 schrieb Maximilian Bräutigam: Am 30.11.2011 13:24, schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer: glxinfo -l | grep MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE Hi Michael, GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE = 1024 is this enough? don't think so. Afaik gnome-shell composes the desktop into a

[gentoo-user] Gentoo location for squirrelmail attachments

2011-12-08 Thread Grant
I ran squirrelmail/configtest.php and realized I don't have an attachment directory set up for Squirrelmail: ERROR: Attachment dir (/var/local/squirrelmail/attach/) does not exist! I don't even have a /var/local/. Would a good Gentoo'er create the directory in that location? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo location for squirrelmail attachments

2011-12-08 Thread Stroller
On 8 December 2011, at 19:17, Grant wrote: I ran squirrelmail/configtest.php and realized I don't have an attachment directory set up for Squirrelmail: ERROR: Attachment dir (/var/local/squirrelmail/attach/) does not exist! I don't even have a /var/local/. Would a good Gentoo'er create

Re: [gentoo-user] KDEPIM-4.7.3 hits the stable tree ... brrrrr!

2011-12-08 Thread Mick
On Thursday 08 Dec 2011 14:51:52 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 06:47:22AM +, Mick wrote: Following Alan's disastrous experience where he saw all his messages disappear before his eyes I am doubly cautious. Has anyone tried the migration to 4.7 yet?

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread Mick
On Thursday 08 Dec 2011 16:11:56 LinuxIsOne wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: As long as we're talking about *you*, and not about someone you're setting things up for, here's what I'd suggest: 1) Keep your existing Ubuntu setup operational, at

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 08:09:34PM +, Mick wrote: Ubuntu is great for it just works. Ubuntu isn't so great for it just keeps working. Neither is Gentoo, for that matter, but, at least with Gentoo, you'll know how to fix it. Ah, thanks for the nice suggestions, I would keep a

Re: [gentoo-user] KDEPIM-4.7.3 hits the stable tree ... brrrrr!

2011-12-08 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 11:26:27PM +0700, Dương Yang ヤン Hà Nguyễn wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, In the KDEPIM full stack, I use only Kopete. Today I upgraded both kdepimlibs and kopete to 4.7.3. After the upgrading, Kwallet did not work

[gentoo-user] Re: How to increase console (text) screen resolution

2011-12-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de writes: AFAIK you also need to use a supporting Graphics driver. I, for instance, Even for a no X setup?. What ever it needs must be there since it pops up in a high resolution, but then drops back. If the good weren't there to create that resolution, I doubt

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I keep baselayout-1?

2011-12-08 Thread JD Horelick
I upgraded 2 systems (both servers, one about 30 miles from me and one a VPS on another continent) and had zero issues. Unless you have the king of all obscure setups or you insist on merging config files by-hand instead of using etc-update or dispatch-conf, there's only a miniscule chance that

[gentoo-user] FYI: problems with 3.1.3/3.1.4 and btrfs

2011-12-08 Thread Adam Carter
On two different machines I've had fs mount failures, even though earlier mounts of the same filesystems on those kernels worked. 3.1.0 seems ok, and it mounted the fs that 3.1.3 couldn't.

Re: [gentoo-user] cxx/nocxx error building gcc-4.5.3-r1

2011-12-08 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 10:27:50AM +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote Just for clarification: - -* means -cxx and -nocxx This can produce the failure you get. Therefore you should set cxx (normally you should want a c++ compiler). If you have -* cxx nocxx you will have to remove one

Re:Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build firmware into kernel

2011-12-08 Thread Lavender
I'm sorry, cause the policy of Internet in my country, I can't open the webpage. Could you send it to me or use other methods? Please see my off-list reply. Thanks a lot ! But I used lspci -v | less, it printed vebose information, then I looked up carefullyfor my video card, but I did not

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo location for squirrelmail attachments

2011-12-08 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/08/2011 02:17 PM, Grant wrote: I ran squirrelmail/configtest.php and realized I don't have an attachment directory set up for Squirrelmail: ERROR: Attachment dir (/var/local/squirrelmail/attach/) does not exist! I don't even have a /var/local/. Would a good Gentoo'er create the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build firmware into kernel

2011-12-08 Thread Lavender
Thanks a lot ! But I used lspci -v | less, it printed vebose information, then I looked up carefully for my video card, but I did not find anything about R600,R700 or other like, I'm still not clear about R*** things , is it chipset name? Hmm, I re-installed radeon-ucode package and I'm sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build firmware into kernel

2011-12-08 Thread Gregory Shearman
In linux.gentoo.user, Lavender wrote: Thanks a lot ! But I used lspci -v | less, it printed vebose information, then I looked up carefully for my video card, but I did not find anything about R600,R700 or other like, I'm still not clear about R*** things , is it chipset name? Hmm, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo location for squirrelmail attachments

2011-12-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, December 8, 2011 8:37 pm, Stroller wrote: On 8 December 2011, at 19:17, Grant wrote: I ran squirrelmail/configtest.php and realized I don't have an attachment directory set up for Squirrelmail: ERROR: Attachment dir (/var/local/squirrelmail/attach/) does not exist! I don't even

Re:Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build firmware into kernel

2011-12-08 Thread Lavender
I think you need: CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y Configured into your kernel. Have a look at your dmesg output. It should have your Radeon card version listed. Mine is a Radeon REDWOOD chip. Here's my kernel config relating to building firmware into the kernel: Thank you, I'll try. Hope

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build firmware into kernel

2011-12-08 Thread Mick
On Friday 09 Dec 2011 02:01:36 Lavender wrote: I'm sorry, cause the policy of Internet in my country, I can't open the webpage. Could you send it to me or use other methods? Please see my off-list reply. Thanks a lot ! But I used lspci -v | less, it printed vebose information,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to increase console (text) screen resolution

2011-12-08 Thread Mick
On Thursday 08 Dec 2011 23:44:25 Harry Putnam wrote: Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de writes: AFAIK you also need to use a supporting Graphics driver. I, for instance, Even for a no X setup?. What ever it needs must be there since it pops up in a high resolution, but then drops back. If

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I keep baselayout-1?

2011-12-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, December 8, 2011 5:01 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Dec 8, 2011 9:46 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: This server is ~50 miles away, and if I screw something and it does not boot up, I will have to go there and fix it on place. One small typo in ~50 config-files which must be updated