I was hoping a few of the old-hats might be able to enlighten me of some of the major changes that might trip me up(both Gentoo specific and Linux overall).
Biggest changes Linux-wise would be the udev monstrosity that has entangled everything.

Hmm without meaning to get into a potentially ...

So I used to be a hardcore Gentoo user (my first post was back in 03, don't recall how long I was using it before then); but about 8ish years ago I just didn't have time to maintain my systems the way I liked, and I either consolidated them or migrated to other distro's. Hell in all honesty I haven ...

Because I can be an impatient fellow; I scripted up a (bad) piece of work to automatically fetch the latest revision of Myth and adjust the ebuilds and such accordingly (including creating the tarballs and digesting the ebuilds which are simply renamed from the previous version)

It's not perfect ...

I seem to be having a similar problem, where the bottom half (3/4's, or sometimes all ) of the picture will display a few seperate frames of the image in random order giving the image a blocky or distorted apperance. Almost like a tracking error on a VHS cassette. I first noticed it with a DVD from ...

Turns out, it had nothing to do with refresh rates, or Windows vs Linux settings or anything software at all. It was whats called "Ground Loop Interference". Basically, my cable line (which feeds into my Linux Box) had a different ground voltage (for lack of a better term) than that of my surge ...

I recently picked up a Westinghouse LTV-37w2 LCD HDTV to replace a small 20" LCD tv that was the primary display of a media-center box. Long story short, is after adjusting my xorg.conf file to fit the 1360*768 resolution; I get what I can only describe as refresh lines on my screen.

They look very ...

hi,

portage seems to be stuck at 0.20_p13706, it doesnt want to upgrade to 0.21, even though i have these lines in /etc/portage/package.keywords/mythtv

You need to manually unmask the 0.21* series as well as there are some versions already in portage that pull off of the live mythtv subversion ...

While switching to qt worked for me as well, I found that re-setting my opengl settings allowed me to go back to opengl mode (which is what I prefer)
Of course that assumes you're using the nvidia drivers and such.

YMMV

If you're trying to digest the ebuilds (in order to use them) then you need all the files marked in the SRC_URI statement; even if you're not going to use the files in question.

Open the bjfilter-2.50-r4.ebuild file up, and remove replace lines that read (around line 22)

SRC_URI="${HOMEPAGE}${PN ...

First, read "man emerge" on the -c and -C.

Not to be snarky but you might want to take your own advice.

emerge -c does {and I quote}
Cleans the system by removing packages that will not affect the
functionality of the system . The arguments can be ebuilds,
sets, or dependencies. For example ...

I hate to post a "Well it works for me" but quite simply...it does. Admittedly it didn't to begin with when I used the (apparently out of date) formula for figuring the -j value: #CPUS+1. I can't recall where I read it (I think the gentoo-wiki) but it seems as though the general concensus is now ...

I don't know how big your playlist is in comparison but I don't have any of the symptoms you describe, Granted my playlist is likely substantially higher than yours (unless you have a LOT of Incubus songs), regardless its possible you have amarok configured to favor songs with higher scores. My ...

Hrm, while this is good in the long run it fubars my pre-compiled packages until I get a chance to build a binary for cups as well, and I'm not sure how many (if any) new bugs will be introduced as a result. I'm currently going through Mid-Terms for college; and I'm going out of town for a few days ...

Its been a while but just in case you still haven't found an answer (or someone else stumbles upon this thread with a similar problem); take a look at this post

I can whip up some new versions.

Done. I've also gone ahead and found a better host (I think); All of my AMD64 binaries can now be found up here . I can't be sure of how stable they are but they don't have so many bloody adds.

As a side note, if anyone has problems while using these binaries ...

Hi tam-ille

Thank you very much for your contributions. I'm going to check and add them as soon as possible. :)

I've kept my chroot around so once you've updated the ebuilds to incorporate the new patch, I can whip up some new versions.

Speaking of when you update the ebuild, would it be too ...

Thank you very much. :wink:

Anytime. Anyways class let out early tonight so I've taken the time to bundle up the packages. I can't promise they'll work for anyone, at all, but I hope they do. In either case, if they fubar your system, make you president of earth or do anything at all, its at your ...

VICTOLY!

I finally got a few minutes and made a 64-bit chroot via the normal stage 3 tarball; from there I emerged cnijfilter (and deps) and built binaries from those. I transfered them to my real install and...no dice; atleast until I recompiled cups and so far everything is working great (again ...

According to This page, those of us with 7440, 7441, 7447 and 7447a machines (EG Most G4's >533Mhz) are essentially 7450's without the L3 Cache; meaning we should use mcpu=7450. As previously noted however, the difference between 7400 and 7450 is marginal performance wise so if you've already got a ...

The command "w" will give you a printout of loadaverages, uptime, and whose logged in. I'm not sure what you can use for a printout of network information in the manner you describe (I assume you're wanting to use it in a script?). IPtraf is essentially a command line (ncurses) version of ethereal ...

How do you get rid of cedega. I tried it once but never got into it. Now I am trying to do an emerge -e world and am stuck at cedega. I dont see it in the world file but every time I do a emerge uD world I get stuck on this . I would like to get rid of it from the system.

Ty "emerge -1tpv world ...

The gentoo philosopy is choice , and for some users that choice is to NOT make choices
No, I don't agree with that. If you don't want choice you'd be better off installing Ubuntu, or any of the other newb-oriented distros out there. I mean, why use a distro that gives you all this choice if you're ...

The only times I've used genkernel was when I first started using gentoo (I was a RH8ish convert) and didn't know jack squat about Linux (Thanks Red Hat!) and right now for my new powerbook simply because I don't know all of the hardware and config options I need yet. Once I'm up and running fully I ...

Sorry, I missed that at the end of your message.

Anyways, if you haven't already, you might want to look at this thread. Theres also the Gentoo-wiki

As I understand it suspend to ram ("sleep") doesn't work at all yet with nVidia chipsets; just ATi.