Well, as for the intel 945 on the mac mini, this looks like a kernel problem to me. I have experimented not only with different kernel configurations, boot parameters (video=vesafb) and different modules, but even with some other linux distros (SuSE, debian, ubuntu). They all have the same problem ...

deno wrote:Do you have i810 in VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf? And did you emerge xf86-video-i810?

THanks for your reply. Yes and yes (sorry, should've mentioned that right away).

And my Xorg.log (wouldn't fit into the post):


This is a pre-release version of the X server from The X.Org Foundation.
It is not supported in any way.
Bugs may be filed in the bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/.
Select the "xorg" product for bugs you find in this release.
Before reporting ...

I'm pulling out my hair: I'm trying to configure Xorg for my mac mini intel 1.83 Core 2 Duo; the graphic chip is the integrated 945 GM. I get absolutely no video output when I start X, and I would be willing to accept that this hardware just isn't supported, but I know I had a working Gnome ...

It depends on what you call "critical". All the recent glsa's for tetex apply also to TeXLive. See e.g. the patches in /usr/portage/app-text/texlive-core/files/2007 (for details, look up the CVEs corresponding to the filenames; also other patches like xpdf-3.02pl* or
the *bufferoverflow.patch are ...

The Gentoo community are many people and you . If you are not able to write an ebuild or produce some documentation how to install TexLive or any other TeX system into a Gentoo installation the maybe you should find a Gentoo developer and convince him how important LaTeX support is or open/find a ...

Yes, TL comes in binary form on the CD or DVD. The ebuild compiles it from the sources, so it should work on a ppc just as every other on ppc working package.

Might be worth adding that the linux-ppc binaries have been built on a Gentoo system (my G5 with ppc64, 32-bit userland).

Overall, I ...

JoseJX wrote:Looks like a bug, please file a bug in Gentoo's bugzilla. Thanks!

OK, reported. Thanks, JoseJX!

Hi,

I have keyjnote on my system, and it pulls in pdftk as a dependency:


% emerge -uD world -pt

These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:

Calculating world dependencies... done!
[nomerge ] media-gfx/keyjnote-0.10.1
[ebuild N ] app-text/pdftk-1.41


But every attempt to ...

Easiest solution: just boot into OS X, and in the System Preferences, select your OS X system as the startup disk. This will bypass the yaboot bootloader. The physical partition is still there, but that's not worth worrying about.

HTH

pindar

Again, thanks! I emerged x11-drm, and now I get emulated glx support (323 fps in glxgears). This was for just one application, stellarium. It runs, even if it's a bit slow and jerky, but my kids still love it!

Thanks for the replies, guys. I'll only be able to boot into my gentoo system tomorrow, but yes: software emulation is all I want; it's just for one single application that insists on having glx available. I'll report back as soon as I have tried the things suggested by fb!

This may be a dumb question, but I really stink at configuring xorg: I had glx disabled for a long time because it was giving me headaches when I tried to configure. Now I need it for something I installed, but whenever I uncomment the line

Load "glx"

in my xorg.conf, the X server dies with a ...

*Slaps forehead* package.provided, that's what I was looking for! Thanks for all the replies! No, I want to keep auctex and vim latexsuite, unmerging them is not an option. And texlive 2005 is not only way too old, it also lacks ppc binaries, so I can't install it. I really hope the texlive ebuild ...

Since tetex has been abandoned and gentoo texlive isn't moving anywhere, I have purged tetex and installed TeXLive from the iso image on CTAN, and it works wonderfully. My problem is that a number of packages (such as auctex) still try to pull in tetex as a dependency when I update world. How can I ...

TeXLive 2007 was released last week. It's a massive download (935 MB!), and given its structure (one huge iso.zip file), it will be almost impossible to make the download significantly smaller for gentoo or split it into several smaller packages. Also, the fact that one .iso contains everything you ...

The porblem occurs when tying to manually create a yaboot configuration, where OF writes something like hd:1. But isn't that sda1 to you and me?? Can you write hdb:1 in OF?


If you're referring to the "device=XXX" line in yaboot.conf: I had trouble with it too; then a helpful soul here told me ...

Sorry, found this post by sheer coincidence and much too late. Let me know if you still need help; I've been using ConTeXt on gentoo for two years now. Btw, ConTeXt is an alternative to LaTeX, not a macro package for LaTeX.

Thomas

Just my 2 cents: I've been running ~ppc (64, 32 bit userland) for a while now. It has its ups and downs. There were times when many emerge actions would fail, but most of the time, a search on the forum would bring help. Recently, I've been very happy with it -- most apps compiled and worked just ...

You have to edit the CROSS-COMPILE line in the makefile to compile the kernel from a 32-bit Userland:

Important: In case you are in 32-bit userland, you must edit the top
level Makefile in /usr/src/linux and change the CROSS_COMPILE option to
CROSS_COMPILE ?= powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-. You ...

Hi,

I was trying to compile kernel 2.6.18 to finally get sound on my G5, but I get these errors:

make
:0: error: -m64 not supported in this configuration
:0: error: -m64 not supported in this configuration
/usr/src/linux-2.6.18-gentoo-r1/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 13: printf: #: invalid number ...

nabla² wrote:There is a use flag: toolkit-scroll-bars

Phantastic, that was it! Thanks a lot, life with emacs has never been better!

This is the best thing since sliced bread -- wonderful antialiased fonts in emacs! I can't believe how pretty it is! This really changes my relationship to linux.

However, there is one minor problem: I first did a manual compile/install of the emacs-unicode-2 trunk into /usr/local/bin. I ...

There was a thread about the advantages and drawbacks of several linux distros over at the macosxhints forum. Maybe this can be useful?

at the present, the Linux kernel does not write in HFS+.

That's not quite right: the hfsplusdrivers refuse to write to a journaled filesystem. If you switch off journaling in OS X, it will happily read and write to a hfsplus fs. On my MacBook, I don't share the entire home folder (because some ...