Had exactly the same problem for over a week (maybe 2?). Changed my GENTOO_MIRRORS in /etc/make.conf from "http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo" to "ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/"

Problem solved. Thanks everyone. It's always easier to fix a problem when you know someone else has ...

I downloaded 2011_0107_RT3070_RT3370_Linux_STA_v2.5.0.1_DPO from the RT site

I had to add one step to get it to load the module (rt3070sta)



add:

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

to 2011_0107_RT3070_RT3370_Linux_STA_v2.5.0.1_DPO/os/linux/usb_main_dev.c

If I didn't, I got:
rt3070sta: Unknown symbol ...

One million thank you-s guys. This is day 3 for me and I was about to start my 2nd "emerge -e world". :)

I can't imagine how the original, original poster figured it out. Talk about no clues!

On the plus side, I remember when my emerge -e took at least 3 days to finish, now it's less that 24 hours ...

hey man, I've only reached "Apprentice" on this forum. I don't know everything. :D

I have a blank "Subject" line above "Message body" as I write this reply. Maybe you could edit yours? I'm really not sure. I don't think I've every started a thread before.

You should figure it out though. It's the ...

I think you need to run

revdep-rebuild

If you don't already have it, you can obtain it by running

emerge gentoolkit

It will search for all broken library links, and then rebuild any package that's looking for old (deleted by emerge --update world) libraries.

Be warned, it's going to take a ...

Btw, after commenting out those lines (132,133, and 134), mplayer is fine. I just wonder why they are there...

~ # cat -n /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf | tail -10
126 # DVDNAV Settings #
127 ###################
128 #vc=ffmpeg12,
129
130 # You can also include other configuration files.
131 ...

I have the same problem. Looks like the config file in portage is bad (or the code that reads the config file is bad. One or the other)

~ $ mplayer ./SummonerGeeks.avi
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=1 at line 132
Warning unknown option subfont ...

So, now that you have the /dev/nvidia* devices, what do you see in Xorg.0.log when you attempt to start X?

...still "(EE) No devices detected"?

This exact problem shows up on one of my machines when I attempt to upgrade xorg-server from 1.5 to 1.6. I'm going to recheck if I left "AllowEmptyInput" lines in my xorg.conf while I was fixing my evdev stuff. Thanks! It was killing me!

Definitely the libxcb upgrade first, followed by xorg-server.

Just a warning though, I may be having some X-related oddities with my mouse. It shuts down irregularly. It's a cordless mouse and it might be physical, but I'm still trying to figure it out. I haven't seen anyone post anything about a ...

Mod parent +1.

Since my wave of rebuilding (above) the mouse and keyboard have been a lot better. Grabbing a window and moving it rapidly still sends the CPU to 100%, but normal keyboard and mouse use is pretty flawless.

I guess I'm going to call this "solved", but it isn't really.

Thanks for your help everyone!

Thanks very much for your help dmpogo. Nothing in dmesg or logs about anything disconnecting/connecting whether it's USB or HAL.

The machine is a several-year-old dual Opteron made by Sun (WZ2100, still amd64 of course). It has an AMD-8111 chipset. The interesting part of lspci looks like this ...

I've upgraded to latest unstable xorg-server, xorg-x11 and evdev driver. Still no change in the stutter.

One more observation, when it starts stuttering, X can grab up to 100% of a CPU.

The USB ports that I'm plugged into are using the OHCI driver (is driver the right term?). The ports that seem ...

Thanks for your replies guys! I've been getting the same ideas you have from reading 100 different posts, and I've been trying to clean up my config and hope that will be the fix.

Right now I have:

-no InputDevice section in xorg.conf of any kind
-only x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev installed (no ...

I have a problem that sounds exactly the same, but I've had it since 2.6.29 sometime. I don't think the problem is in the kernel, I'm leaning towards HAL on this, because I don't think I've spent any time updating it on this machine. My other machine doesn't have this issue.

If you find anything ...

ummm... that worked.

usr # mkdir /usr/portage
usr # mount /export/archive2/portage/ /usr/portage -o bind
usr # mount | grep portage
/export/archive2/portage on /usr/portage type none (rw,bind)
usr # emerge -fv xulrunner

These are the packages that would be fetched, in order:

Calculating ...

This just started happening to me to. I noticed I was running out of space in my /usr partition, so I tar-ed over /usr/portage to another (much larger) partition and set up a link pointing to it
# cd /usr
# ls -l portage
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 5 16:47 portage -> /export/archive2/portage ...

Worked for me to. That is to say:

(as root) (as user) ..and restart the desktop.

Many thanks. I never would have guessed that one.

Hmmmm.... interesting. Is: a bad sign?

They sound pretty new. I think that you're going to be the first.

No good news. I'm really not sure if I'm even doing everything right, but I had to setup the TFTP server on another Solaris 10 box. After a pile of poking around I finally managed to "boot net" and get a response. I'm using the boot image that you linked to (above) of course:

You can see the kernel ...

You are better than 16 hours of searching on google!!!

...now I have to set up this tftp thing. Never had to before. Hmmm.. Do I have to have the tftpd server on the same subnet?

I have to dodge work, but I'll have results with a week.

Thanks again!!!

I'm just trying to install Gentoo 2008.0 for SPARC on an LDOM in a T5240 this week. I can boot the CD, but once it's loaded a kernel it can't find my virtual cdrom or virtual hardrive anymore and can't continue the boot process.

No answers here I'm afraid, but I'm guessing the kernel doesn't ...