Re: Problem installing the "nouveau" driver

2010-07-01 Thread Mike McCarty
al...@verizon.net wrote: [...] > post, ALL I'm interested in - for the moment - is someone > who HAS "nouveau" active on the machine and has a boot-up > experience different than mine (or even identical - > the point is to compare notes and for me to "steal" a few > ideas :): Thus endeth the thr

Re: Problem installing the "nouveau" driver

2010-07-01 Thread Simon Geard
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 13:25 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Simon Geard wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 10:25 -0500, al...@verizon.net wrote: > > You were ok up to here... A combination of trying to simplify, and trying to remember stuff I last played with in college, back when accelerated graphics

Re: Problem installing the "nouveau" driver

2010-07-01 Thread Simon Geard
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 20:46 -0500, al...@verizon.net wrote: > Simon, Trent, Mike: > > Thank you very much for the rich, detailed, interesting > theories and explanations about video drivers, booting, > X, fonts, pixels, my boot-up component steps, etc. > All this knowledge and experience is obviou

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 6.13. GMP-5.0.1

2010-07-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On 1 July 2010 05:24, Face wrote: > configure: error: could not find a working compiler, see config.log for > details > -- So, what does config.log say about this ? Also, I'm mildly surprised that your compiler doesn't support '-m32 since you seem to be building on 32-bit (pentium2). What d

Re: If SBU measure include test time?

2010-07-01 Thread littlebat
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:07:06 -0500 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > It's just not important enough to fix. If someone creates a patch, > I'll apply it. Here is a patch, you can apply it if it is helpful. #!/bin/bash # usage: fixa.sh source_top_directory_full_path # e.g., ./fixa.sh ~/LFS-DEV/BOOK # For f

Re: If SBU measure include test time?

2010-07-01 Thread littlebat
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:07:06 -0500 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > It's just not important enough to fix. If someone creates a patch, > I'll apply it. Here is a patch, you can apply it if it is helpful. Change "the package" into "every package" base on the last email. #!/bin/bash # usage: fixa.sh sourc

Re: If SBU measure include test time?

2010-07-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
littlebat wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:07:06 -0500 > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > >> It's just not important enough to fix. If someone creates a patch, >> I'll apply it. > > Here is a patch, you can apply it if it is helpful. That's a script, not a patch. For an example of a patch, see http://

Compilation problem for binutils

2010-07-01 Thread $reeHari
hi , i've just started my lfs adventure , but unfortunately got a problem right from the start . i'm following lfs book version 6.3 . I'm on chapter 5.3.1 - installation of binutils . I first installed binutils and it was okey . after that when i try recompile ld with LIB_PATH=/tools/lib , i get er

Re: Compilation problem for binutils

2010-07-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On 01/07/10 20:12, $reeHari wrote: > hi , > i've just started my lfs adventure , but unfortunately got a problem > right from the start . i'm following lfs book version 6.3 Why are you using such an old version? The current book is 6.6. Most people probably can't remember much about 6.3. Certainl

Re: Compilation problem for binutils

2010-07-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
$reeHari wrote: > hi , > i've just started my lfs adventure , but unfortunately got a problem right > from the start . i'm following lfs book version 6.3 . I'm on chapter 5.3.1 - > installation of binutils . I first installed binutils and it was okey . > after that when i try recompile ld with LIB_

LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.9. Binutils-2.20.1 - Pass 2

2010-07-01 Thread Face
Hello All, lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-2.20.1$ CC="$LFS_TGT-gcc -B/tools/lib/" \ > AR=$LFS_TGT-ar RANLIB=$LFS_TGT-ranlib \ > ../binutils-2.20.1/configure --prefix=/tools \ > --disable-nls --with-lib-path=/tools/lib checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-

Re: Problem installing the "nouveau" driver

2010-07-01 Thread Mike McCarty
Simon Geard wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 13:25 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: >> Simon Geard wrote: >>> On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 10:25 -0500, al...@verizon.net wrote: >> You were ok up to here... > > A combination of trying to simplify, and trying to remember stuff I last > played with in college, back

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.9. Binutils-2.20.1 - Pass 2

2010-07-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On 1 July 2010 23:12, Face wrote: > Hello All, > > lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-2.20.1$ CC="$LFS_TGT-gcc -B/tools/lib/" \ >>             AR=$LFS_TGT-ar RANLIB=$LFS_TGT-ranlib \ >>             ../binutils-2.20.1/configure --prefix=/tools \ >>             --disable-nls --with-lib-path=/tools/lib >

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.9. Binutils-2.20.1 - Pass 2

2010-07-01 Thread Face
Ken, Well, I am really sorry for all the trouble i caused. I start over b/c i could not fix the earlier Problem, really sorry. section 5.8 went Ok (I think) here is the out lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources$ echo 'main(){}' > dummy.c lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources$ $LFS_TGT-gcc -B/tools/lib dummy.c lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources

Re: If SBU measure include test time?

2010-07-01 Thread littlebat
On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:41:38 -0500 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > That's a script, not a patch. > > For an example of a patch, see > http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/attachment/ticket/2371/program-list-update.patch Here is a patch, you can apply it if it is helpful. Ticket #2702 (new enhancement)

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.9. Binutils-2.20.1 - Pass 2

2010-07-01 Thread Neal Murphy
On Thursday 01 July 2010 20:57:33 Face wrote: > Ken, > Well, I am really sorry for all the trouble i caused. I start over b/c > i could not fix the earlier Problem, really sorry. Sometimes, deleting everything and starting anew is all you *can* do. After you've built LFS 10-20 times, you'll recog

Re: If SBU measure include test time?

2010-07-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
littlebat wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:41:38 -0500 > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> That's a script, not a patch. >> >> For an example of a patch, see >> http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/attachment/ticket/2371/program-list-update.patch > > Here is a patch, you can apply it if it is helpful. > > T

Re: Compilation problem for binutils

2010-07-01 Thread $reeHari
Hi , thanks 4 the replies . I used version 6.3 of the book coz the livecds of lfs contained only packages for version 6.3 of the book . since version 6.6 uses newer versions of packages and livecd with all the required packages are not available , i would have to download each package separately .

Re: Compilation problem for binutils

2010-07-01 Thread Mike McCarty
$reeHari wrote: > Hi , thanks 4 the replies . I used version 6.3 of the book coz the livecds > of lfs contained only packages for version 6.3 of the book . since version > 6.6 uses newer versions of packages and livecd with all the required > packages are not available , i would have to download ea