[gentoo-user] Cryptic warning message x11-drivers:ati-drivers-8.32.5 build

[gentoo-user] Cryptic warning message x11-drivers:ati-drivers-8.32.5 build

[Walter Dnes]

  I ran an emerge --sync, and updated --world a few minutes ago.  For
the x11-drivers:ati-drivers-8.32.5 build, I found the following warning
message...

WARN: setup
You have DRM support enabled builtin, the direct rendering will not
work.

  As near as I can tell, this is something like ALSA, where you're not
supposed to enable it in the kernel, but rather in the module.  What
exactly am I supposed to do to get DRM to work?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptic warning message x11-drivers:ati-drivers-8.32.5 build

[Alan McKinnon]

On Sunday 18 February 2007, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I ran an emerge --sync, and updated --world a few minutes ago.  For
> the x11-drivers:ati-drivers-8.32.5 build, I found the following
> warning message...
>
> WARN: setup
> You have DRM support enabled builtin, the direct rendering will not
> work.
>
>   As near as I can tell, this is something like ALSA, where you're
> not supposed to enable it in the kernel, but rather in the module. 
> What exactly am I supposed to do to get DRM to work?

Rconfigure and recompile the kernel:

make menuconfig -> Device Drivers -> Character Devices -> Direct 
Rendering Manager

make it a module. Or, you can just deselect it as the ati drivers 
provide their own drm implementation. If you leave the in-kernel 
version enabled as a module you will have to ensure that the drm module 
is not loaded when X starts

This is all documented by ATI in nice html format in an "ati*" directory 
in /usr/share/doc/

alan

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Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptic warning message x11-drivers:ati-drivers-8.32.5 build

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:13:36AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote

> Rconfigure and recompile the kernel:
> 
> make menuconfig -> Device Drivers -> Character Devices -> Direct 
> Rendering Manager
> 
> make it a module. Or, you can just deselect it as the ati drivers 
> provide their own drm implementation. If you leave the in-kernel 
> version enabled as a module you will have to ensure that the drm module 
> is not loaded when X starts

  Thanks for the explanation of the process.

 
> This is all documented by ATI in nice html format in an "ati*" directory 
> in /usr/share/doc/

  Not if I have "-doc" in my USE var<g>.

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[gentoo-user] Documentation annoyances

[Walter Dnes]

  Thread re-named to reflect topic-drift

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:58:47AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote

> On the one hand, /usr/share/doc has been almost 2G big (!) at times, and 
> otoh one can miss the really useful stuff....

  I wouldn't mind terribly if it was actually usable.  I'd like to be
able to bookmark the docs in my browser.  Here's a list of what's
available to me, even with "-doc"...

[m3000][waltdnes][~] find /usr/share/doc/ -name "index.html"
/usr/share/doc/freeglut-2.4.0/doc/index.html
/usr/share/doc/libxslt-1.1.17/html/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/libxslt-1.1.17/html/EXSLT/index.html
/usr/share/doc/libxslt-1.1.17/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/lame-3.96.1/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/libsdl-1.2.11/html/docs/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/libsdl-1.2.11/html/docs/index.html
/usr/share/doc/flac-1.1.2-r8/html/ru/index.html
/usr/share/doc/flac-1.1.2-r8/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.14/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.13-r1/index.html
/usr/share/doc/syslog-ng-1.6.11-r1/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/libmpeg3-1.5.2-r3/html/docs/index.html
/usr/share/doc/libsndfile-1.0.17/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/libvorbis-1.1.2/txt/doc/vorbisfile/index.html
/usr/share/doc/libvorbis-1.1.2/txt/doc/index.html
/usr/share/doc/libvorbis-1.1.2/txt/doc/vorbisenc/index.html
/usr/share/doc/tiff-3.8.2/html/man/index.html
/usr/share/doc/tiff-3.8.2/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/python-xlib-0.12-r1/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/transcode-1.0.2-r3/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6.3.0.5/html/www/Magick++/index.html
/usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6.3.0.5/html/www/index.html
/usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6.3.0.5/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/gtklife-4.2/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/gqview-2.0.1/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/libogg-1.1.2/ogg/index.html
/usr/share/doc/libogg-1.1.2/index.html
/usr/share/doc/exiftool-6.44/html/TagNames/index.html
/usr/share/doc/exiftool-6.44/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/ghostscript-esp-8.15.3/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-4.1.4/html/doc/index.html

  Guess what happens to the bookmarks next time there's a minor version
bump to any of those programs (e.g. when I update world)?  I suppose I
should try to slap together a script that's run after emerge.  It would
run the "find" command above, process the output, and create a file
~/.docs.html with an unnumbered list of links to the actual
documentation.  Sounds like a plan.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation annoyances

[Zac Medico]

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Walter Dnes wrote:
>   Guess what happens to the bookmarks next time there's a minor version
> bump to any of those programs (e.g. when I update world)?  I suppose I
> should try to slap together a script that's run after emerge.  It would
> run the "find" command above, process the output, and create a file
> ~/.docs.html with an unnumbered list of links to the actual
> documentation.  Sounds like a plan.

That's the intended purpose of DOC_SYMLINKS_DIR which is documented
in `man make.conf`  (new in portage-2.1.2).

Zac
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Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation annoyances

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday 23 February 2007, Zac Medico wrote:

> That's the intended purpose of DOC_SYMLINKS_DIR which is documented
> in `man make.conf`  (new in portage-2.1.2).
>
> Zac

That'll teach me to keep up to date with new portage features :-)

I just recommended Walter to ask for this very thing.... sorry bout the 
noise

alan


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Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation annoyances

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 08:06:20PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote

> Walter Dnes wrote:
> >   Guess what happens to the bookmarks next time there's a minor version
> > bump to any of those programs (e.g. when I update world)?  I suppose I
> > should try to slap together a script that's run after emerge.  It would
> > run the "find" command above, process the output, and create a file
> > ~/.docs.html with an unnumbered list of links to the actual
> > documentation.  Sounds like a plan.
> 
> That's the intended purpose of DOC_SYMLINKS_DIR which is documented
> in `man make.conf`  (new in portage-2.1.2).

  Now they tell me... after I went and put together a script to provide
pointers to html documentation<g>.  I intend to get my script doing
multi-column display, so I'm not giving up on it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation annoyances

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday 23 February 2007, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   Thread re-named to reflect topic-drift
>
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:58:47AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
>
> > On the one hand, /usr/share/doc has been almost 2G big (!) at
> > times, and otoh one can miss the really useful stuff....
>
>   I wouldn't mind terribly if it was actually usable.  I'd like to be
> able to bookmark the docs in my browser.  Here's a list of what's
> available to me, even with "-doc"...
>
> [m3000][waltdnes][~] find /usr/share/doc/ -name "index.html"
> /usr/share/doc/freeglut-2.4.0/doc/index.html
[snip]
> /usr/share/doc/giflib-4.1.4/html/doc/index.html
>
>   Guess what happens to the bookmarks next time there's a minor
> version bump to any of those programs (e.g. when I update world)?  I
> suppose I should try to slap together a script that's run after
> emerge.  It would run the "find" command above, process the output,
> and create a file ~/.docs.html with an unnumbered list of links to
> the actual
> documentation.  Sounds like a plan.

How about asking for a feature request in portage?

Something like a "docsymlink" FEATURE which will create an unversioned  
symlink in /usr/share/doc in the install function. Something like this:

ln -sfn /usr/share/doc/<app>-1.2.3 /usr/share/doc/<app>

Put the symlink in your bookmarks, not the actual file. If portage does 
it for you, then you don't have to do it manually with every update

alan

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