Re: Problem installing the "nouveau" driver

2010-06-18 Thread Simon Geard
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 17:35 +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > On 18/06/10 02:29, al...@verizon.net wrote: > > Hello, > > > > i686-pc-linux-gnu, 2.6.34, udev-156, (B)LFS > > NVidia GeForce 8300GS > > > > I think the 8000 series needs extra firmware. My wife's computer has a > 8400GS which needs nv86.c

Re: Problem installing the "nouveau" driver

2010-06-18 Thread Simon Geard
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 21:59 +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > No, you're not helping. His video card need some firmware to work with > the nouveau driver. He needs to either put the firmware in /lib/firmware > or compile it into the kernel. If he read the syslog from the failed > boot he would see t

Re: Problem installing the "nouveau" driver

2010-06-18 Thread Andrew Benton
On 18/06/10 20:00, Neal Murphy wrote: > OK. So it is not a simple "I'm sleeping and I can't wake up!" problem. This is > about where you discard all notions of 'how it should work' and ask, "How can > I see what it is really doing, since it doesn't seems to be do what is > expected?" It almost soun

Re: Problem installing the "nouveau" driver

2010-06-18 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday 18 June 2010 13:38:39 al...@verizon.net wrote: > Jun 18, 2010 12:41:04 PM, Andrew Benton wrote > me his comments on the subject. > > > > Hi Andy, > > Thanks for your message. As I told Neil below, > I'm hard at work at going over some log datails, etc. now. > (I was hoping against h

Re: Problem installing the "nouveau" driver

2010-06-18 Thread alupu
Jun 18, 2010 12:41:04 PM, Andrew Benton wrote me his comments on the subject. Hi Andy, Thanks for your message. As I told Neil below, I'm hard at work at going over some log datails, etc. now. (I was hoping against hope Neil's interesting workaround will bring me afloat, but no cigar). I'l

Re: LFS 6.6 Chapter 8.1 Can't "make" new kernel

2010-06-18 Thread Ken Moffat
On 18 June 2010 17:02, Franz L. Kuhlmann wrote: > After having installed Ubuntu 9.10 I worked quite happily through the book > up to section 8.1. > However, after executing make oldconfig (since I felt to be safe with my > rather ordinary desktop PC), I hope you were running a recent kernel at t

Re: AW: AW: Cannot execute grub-install

2010-06-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Michael Vahl wrote: > After a step-by-step execution of grub-install, I determined that the script > grub-mkconfig_lib in /usr/lib/grub/ (line 35 of grub-install) doesn't have > the appropriate filemode (changed to 755). What were the permissions? They should be 644. A sourced file dies not n

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.5. GCC-4.5.0 - Pass 1

2010-06-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Face wrote: > is this normal > > > ../gcc-4.5.0/configure \ > --target=$LFS_TGT --prefix=/tools \ > --disable-nls --disable-shared --disable-multilib \ > --disable-decimal-float --disable-threads \ > --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp \ >

Re: Problem installing the "nouveau" driver

2010-06-18 Thread Andrew Benton
On 18/06/10 02:29, al...@verizon.net wrote: > Hello, > > i686-pc-linux-gnu, 2.6.34, udev-156, (B)LFS > NVidia GeForce 8300GS > I think the 8000 series needs extra firmware. My wife's computer has a 8400GS which needs nv86.ctxprog and nv86.ctxvals. I compile them into the kernel with CONFIG_FW_L

AW: AW: Cannot execute grub-install

2010-06-18 Thread Michael Vahl
Michael Vahl wrote: >>> Michael Vahl wrote: >>> Hey y'all, >>> >>> i've recently passed all prior steps of chapter 8.4.2 (LFS 6.6). But now, >>> without any error messages, I'm not able to execute "grub-install >>> --grub-setup=/bin/true /dev/sda". grub-install can be found and sda is > the >>> sys

LFS 6.6 Chapter 8.1 Can't "make" new kernel

2010-06-18 Thread Franz L. Kuhlmann
After having installed Ubuntu 9.10 I worked quite happily through the book up to section 8.1. However, after executing make oldconfig (since I felt to be safe with my rather ordinary desktop PC), * * Random Number Generation * Pseudo Random Number Generation for Cryptographic modules (

LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.5. GCC-4.5.0 - Pass 1

2010-06-18 Thread Face
is this normal ../gcc-4.5.0/configure \ --target=$LFS_TGT --prefix=/tools \ --disable-nls --disable-shared --disable-multilib \ --disable-decimal-float --disable-threads \ --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp \ --disable-libgomp --enabl