Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:39:15 +0100, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: That's odd, it broke local deliveries for me - and others. Fortunately, nothing was lost, it just stayed in the queue while I recompiled glibc. Same here, but are you saying you fixed this by rebuilding 2.13? I ask because

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-08 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:55:27 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:39:15 +0100, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: That's odd, it broke local deliveries for me - and others. Fortunately, nothing was lost, it just stayed in the queue while I recompiled glibc. Same here, but are you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:58:03 +0100, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: I rebuilt 2.12.2. You have to remove the downgrade check from $PORTDIR/sys-libs/glibc/files/eblits/pkg_setup.eblit. As the binary package created with FEATURES=buildpkg contained this check, I could not emerge -k it, I had to

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/07/2011 02:34:52 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: Don't install glibc-2.13 if you either use prelinking or run postfix. After testing it on my netbook, which uses neither, I installed it on my desktop and home server and broke both. Has anybody tried this

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:37:41 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Don't install glibc-2.13 if you either use prelinking or run postfix. After testing it on my netbook, which uses neither, I installed it on my desktop and home server and broke both. Has anybody tried this

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-08 Thread Stroller
On 7/2/2011, at 11:03pm, Nils Holland wrote: On 12:24 Mon 07 Feb , Stroller wrote: The closest Gentoo stage was i486, and on such a slow old system it would be nice to squeeze out any extra performance I can. ... So what would probably work and what I'll try in the next days is

[gentoo-user] PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-08 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? Ghostscript does this, but is unable to convert gradients and fills (they're replaced by bitmaps) which results in a too big file unless I drastically reduce quality. -- Nuno J. Silva

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg segfaults, but GDM welcome screen loads

2011-02-08 Thread Grant
I only mention it because in my experience I always have weird shit happening when I upgrade xorg-server over a big version number change. And rebuilding everything that underpins xorg always fixes it. Including drivers and mesa. In the old days when xorg was monolithic this never happened,

[gentoo-user] copy a bunch of files...

2011-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Looking for a simple way to do a big copy at the command line. I have a bunch of files (maybe 100 right now, but it will grow) that I can find with locate and grep: c2stable ~ # locate Correlation | grep Builder | grep csv

Re: [gentoo-user] copy a bunch of files...

2011-02-08 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 08.02.2011 19:27, schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi, Looking for a simple way to do a big copy at the command line. I have a bunch of files (maybe 100 right now, but it will grow) that I can find with locate and grep: c2stable ~ # locate Correlation | grep Builder | grep csv

[gentoo-user] [drm] loading RV710 Microcode fails

2011-02-08 Thread James
Hello, I cleanup up a system, per the postings to not use HAL. k3b does not work, but, I'll look for a fix for it later. I keep 2 kernels on this system. kernel-2.6.34-gentoo-r12 and kernel-2.6.36-gentoo-r5 the *36 does not work. I have copied it over from an identical system, build new

Re: [gentoo-user] copy a bunch of files...

2011-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 08.02.2011 19:27, schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi,    Looking for a simple way to do a big copy at the command line. I have a bunch of files (maybe 100 right now, but it will grow) that I can find with locate and grep:

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-08 Thread Nils Holland
On 12:41 Tue 08 Feb , Stroller wrote: If my process wasn't clear from my last email: it looks like, following that document, you have to do the whole thing with changed CHOST, *before* making any changes to CFLAGS. It appears like only after you've `emerge -e world` with the new CHOST

Re: [gentoo-user] [drm] loading RV710 Microcode fails

2011-02-08 Thread Gregory Shearman
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: Hello, I cleanup up a system, per the postings to not use HAL. k3b does not work, but, I'll look for a fix for it later. I keep 2 kernels on this system. kernel-2.6.34-gentoo-r12 and kernel-2.6.36-gentoo-r5 the *36 does not work. I have copied it over

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:34 on Monday 07 February 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: Don't install glibc-2.13 if you either use prelinking or run postfix. After testing it on my netbook, which uses neither, I installed it on my desktop and home server and broke both. hehe, I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:33 on Monday 07 February 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: An `emerge -e world` may break things, but it's not usually that likely to. An emerge -e world is not likely to break things in itself, but the steps that require it, such as changing

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg segfaults, but GDM welcome screen loads

2011-02-08 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 08 February 2011 16:38:34 Grant wrote: I only mention it because in my experience I always have weird shit happening when I upgrade xorg-server over a big version number change. And rebuilding everything that underpins xorg always fixes it. Including drivers and mesa. In

Re: [gentoo-user] possible portage or ebuild bug?

2011-02-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:41 on Monday 07 February 2011, cov...@ccs.covici.com did opine thusly: On trying my last world update with --deep and --newuse, etc. I get the following message: Calculating dependencies .. done! !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 23:49:33 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: hehe, I'm safe :-) I've hardmasked =glibc-2.12 ever since the blatantly untested cock up that was the first testing version of glibc-2.12 hit the tree Now if only you could mask your smugness plugin :P

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:23 on Wednesday 09 February 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 23:49:33 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: hehe, I'm safe :-) I've hardmasked =glibc-2.12 ever since the blatantly untested cock up that was the first testing version of

[gentoo-user] Re: [drm] loading RV710 Microcode fails

2011-02-08 Thread James
Gregory Shearman zekeyg at gmail.com writes: Are you using kernel modesetting? If you are then you have to get your microcode built into the kernel. Not sure, can you be more specific on modesetting as grepping the /usr/src/linux/.config does not find anything, so I'm not exactly sure what

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 00:36:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Wetware works different to software. Yes, you can't reboot it whenever it annoys you. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] i586 stage3 tarball

2011-02-08 Thread Nils Holland
Hi everyone, I've already talked about it in the CHOST thread, but now it's finished: If you use anonymous FTP and go to ftp://one.tisys.org/pub/linux/tisys/gentoo you will find a file called stage3-i586-20110208.tar.bz that contains a Gentoo stage3 tarball built with CHOST = i586-pc-linux-gnu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [drm] loading RV710 Microcode fails

2011-02-08 Thread Gregory Shearman
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: Gregory Shearman zekeyg at gmail.com writes: Are you using kernel modesetting? If you are then you have to get your microcode built into the kernel. Not sure, can you be more specific on modesetting as grepping the /usr/src/linux/.config does not find

Re: [gentoo-user] i586 stage3 tarball

2011-02-08 Thread Mark Shields
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Nils Holland n...@tisys.org wrote: Hi everyone, I've already talked about it in the CHOST thread, but now it's finished: If you use anonymous FTP and go to ftp://one.tisys.org/pub/linux/tisys/gentoo you will find a file called stage3-i586-20110208.tar.bz

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is misplaced in /usr

2011-02-08 Thread Mark Shields
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 00:23 on Sunday 06 February 2011, Mark Shields did opine thusly: It's just plain outright stupid to have a default location for something (that by definition is variable) in a

[gentoo-user] Re: [drm] loading RV710 Microcode fails

2011-02-08 Thread James
Gregory Shearman zekeyg at gmail.com writes: I run an ATI HD5660 graphics card and use the open source Radeon driver found in the kernel. When I select this driver, there's a second option about allowing kernel modesetting by default. I've found that 3D graphics and even the Xserver doesn't

[gentoo-user] Re: [drm] loading RV710 Microcode fails

2011-02-08 Thread james
Gregory Shearman zekeyg at gmail.com writes: CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR= This should show the kernel the directory where your firmware is stored. Mine is in /lib/firmware. Now I have ls /lib/firmware/ RV710_me.binRV710_me.bin.ihexRV710_pfp.bin.gen.o RV710_me.bin.gen.S

[gentoo-user] Re: [drm] loading RV710 Microcode fails

2011-02-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/09/2011 03:35 AM, James wrote: Gregory Shearmanzekeygat gmail.com writes: I run an ATI HD5660 graphics card and use the open source Radeon driver found in the kernel. When I select this driver, there's a second option about allowing kernel modesetting by default. I've found that 3D

[gentoo-user] Re: copy a bunch of files...

2011-02-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: locate Correlation | grep Builder | grep csv | while read file; do cp $file ~mark/CorrelationTests; done Just a minor point that would simplify the cmd by one cmd call. You could use awk instead of 2 calls to grep. It might be a tiny bit slower... but

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Tue, Feb 08 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:37:41 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Don't install glibc-2.13 if you either use prelinking or run postfix. After testing it on my netbook, which uses neither, I installed it on my desktop and home server and broke both.