Just want to bump my post. What is the deal with cafepress apparel? Is it still part of the Gentoo family?

Brad

I went looking for Gentoo shirts today, eventually found the old cafepress site (http://www.cafeshops.com/cp/store.aspx?s=gentoolinux), but there is no link from the new Gentoo Store, or the main page. Is this an oversight, or is the cafe press site being phased out?

Brad

My Toshiba Satellite 2410 used to run at 60-70C (fan off at 60, off at 70) it was a BIOS setting (battery save from memory). I needed to replace my mainboard, I suspect it was too hot for too long. Now I run between 50-55, (performance fan setting), much nicer. I only way I could get that cooler ...

According to the above bug report, it should now be unmasked in portage (so emerge rsync should fix it right?)
(or manually hack the /usr/portage/profile/package.mask file)

However, this does highlight a significant failing in portage, the inability to continue when some packages can't be satisfied ...

I noticed that bug report - mpg321 should fill the virtual package mpg123, right? I'm not at my box to check right now, will this fix it up?

emerge -C mpg123
emerge mpg321
emerge -u world

Brad

Well, the title says it all, I can't even emerge -pu world because I get the following error:

all ebuilds that could satisfy media-sound/mpg123 have been masked.

And they are! Even ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" doesn't fix this. Portage knows about 4 packages (0.59r-r2, 0.59s-r1, 0.59r-r3, 0.59s), and ...

I wanted to use GentooX on a friend's xbox - but found that Ed's Debian for Xbox (Xebian) didn't require modding the xbox - so we went for that instead,

Brad

Just an update for anyone who cares. The problems returned & I have taken it in for service. Apparently the mainboard is going to be replaced. So this whole wild goose chase was a hardware issue. Damnit.

Had anyone else had problems with these laptops?

Cheers
Brad

Well, here is some more info - just for kicks & anyone curious.
Firstly, quick recap.
1) Upon sleep (either 2.6.1+acpi patch, or winXP) the laptop wouldn't come back properly
2) The laptop would then not boot at all, and not respond to keypresses in the BIOS
3) Leave the machine unplugged for ~8hrs ...

Well, stranger and stranger. Here is some more info.
As I mentioned, after a night turned off (and disconnected) the BIOS booted again, woohoo, I can backup!
That next morning I twiddled with what I thought I had done wrong (module loading/unloading in a sleep script) and kept 2.6.1-plain, reslept ...

Grr. Oh well, that's what happens I just hope that my BIOS boots again tonight!
Have you heard anything like that before? Should I report it to the ACPI maintainers?

Cheers
Brad

Does that mean that 2.6.1 has regressed acpi code???

Cheers
Brad

With the 2.4 kernels I was using APM to suspend my Toshiba Satelite 2410, which appeared to work fine.
When 2.6.0 came out I switched to ACPI to give me more features, I was happily sleeping by using echo "3" > /proc/acpi/sleep

I updated to 2.6.1 (although I am unsure if 2.6.1 is the actual ...

Yup

Starting to play with 2.6 when I have time.

Cool - it works today....
I take back my gripe

This is a dupe, but I couldn't find the original thread. The "last 24 hours" link is still broken for me. This is my prefered method of reading the forums - is there any ETA on when it might be fixed?

Cheers
Brad

I think that the OpenGL RedBook goes over the matrix math involved in transforming 3d vectors & then projecting them into 2d space. That should get you drawing lines. Other than that, look for old school tutorials - before OGL & D3D were around.

Brad

Anjuta is very nice.

I had the brilliant thought that the easy solution would be to have /usr/portage mounted on a compressed filesystem volume. But when I when looking for such a filesystem, I could really only find readonly ones. Does anybody else know of read/write compressed filesystems for linux?

Brad

Checkout firehol.sourceforge.net
You'll never go back

Brad

firehol.sourceforge.net is good

Brad

It does make a big difference if you are compiling stuff, if you change a file & the touch is older than the .o file then the .o file won't get remade.

Brad

I think you just need normal USB modules, and use gphoto2 to get pictures off. I have one & it works fine (except I need to be root)

Brad

How hard is it to write an ebuild? How much effort is it to upload/distribute it? There ya go - the package management is so easy almost any user can contribute, this is why Gentoo has such an huge number of packages. That, IMHO, is why Portage is one of the best package managers.

Brad

Bump. Still broken. This is my preferred browse method - that's why I'm bumping it.

Brad