I have an idea for a script to help me merge ~x86 packages. I would
be interested if anyone has done something similar, or has advice
before I start.

First I do not USE=~x86 for stability reasons. Second I do not
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86; instead I prefer an entry in
/etc/portage/package.keywords for ...

I am running 6.8.1.902 built WITHOUT dlloader. The spyderous guide only applies to upgrading systems built WITH dlloader.
You have to unmerge previous instances of xorg, unmask a LOT of packages with package.mask and ~x86 (as mentioned in the guides and this thread) and then install...


Right ...

I am running 6.8.1.902 built WITHOUT dlloader. The spyderous guide only applies to upgrading systems built WITH dlloader. 6.8.1.902 is no longer in Portage so I can't re-emerge it. What do I need to do to upgrade to 7.0? Do I need to first upgrade to 6.8.2-r6 with USE=dlloader, and THEN follow the ...

This actually does work:

# ln -s /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3.5/gcc /usr/bin/gcc33


--old complaint--

I need to invoke gcc as "gcc33" in order to use a distcc server. On Fedora a symlink works fine for this, but on Gentoo:


# ln -s /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcc33
# gcc33 -v
gcc-config error ...

I can get my own simple projects to build, so the qt-4 package seems pretty sound to me. Thanks for the good work on this. According to the docs, USE=examples is supposed to _build_ the examples but this doesn't seem to be the case; at least "etcat files" doesn't show those executables. According to ...

I wonder if someone can illuminate the build status of the examples; I USE=examples and it seems they come
"partially" built, with .pro's and Makefiles and strange "Trolltech/.config" turds lying around, but no executables.

I do get some examples to compile with the normal

qmake -project
qmake ...

Does the file mkspecs/linux-g++/qmake.conf exist in either of these directories?

senu wrote:i ve tried
/usr/qt/3/
and
/usr/share/qt4/

any ideas?

Can you mount the partition by hand after dropping into the initrd shell?

I don't know how relevant this is, but I was getting the same message when I upgraded to vanilla-sources-2.6.12-rc4, only my root partition is ReiserFS not ext3, and I got a sefault rather than "not a valid root device". The ...

Thanks Cintra, I had a ReiserFS 3 root partition which would not mount and this worked for me. As soon as I unset ReiserFS debugging everything started fine.

- in /etc/kernels copy the previous configuration file and change the name (end now with r8 instead of r6)

Normally the kernel Make process will take its defaults from $SRC/.config, not /etc/kernels/kernel-config-*. So if you are not already doing this, copy your old config to /usr/src/linux ...

You may try Chris Mason's "rej" tool:


at that point Chris Mason's "rej" tool is pretty nifty:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mason/rej/rej-0.13.tar.gz

it gets the trivial rejects right, and is pretty powerful to quickly
cycle through the nontrivial ones too. It shows the old and new code
side by ...

Wine works fine for me but does anyone know how to do it non-interactively?
E.g. I'd like to compress 5 DVD's one after the other in the middle of the night,
without having to get up and click on some buttons and type in paths every
hour or two. Maybe a Wine scripting language, or app-specific ...

I'm wondering: how much network usage do I save by doing emerge --sync monthly or weekly, as opposed to every day? I assume that by running it more often, there is less to download each time. Ideally I'd like to run it every 2 or 3 days, but I could do it twice a month if it would save my a few ...

If anyone is interested this was fixed with a patch on wine-devel.

http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-devel/2005/03/0977.html


I have an application ("The Rosetta Stone" 2.0.7a) which segfaults
during the startup splash screen. According to strace() it is trying
to munmap() an address ...

auto-config fails on this packge probing for architecture (PIII SSE), and asks me to re-emerge with interactive=1. This causes ./xconfig to hang. It seems to be a problem with user I/O since xconfig is supposed to print something and wait for a user response. I can build successfully with:


# cd ...

I would like to comment on my experience with this procedure.

First, realize that menus etc. will not work. When I played back my
resulting disc, the first few seconds consisted of rapidly displaying
all the menus and special screens, followed by the main feature. I
saw this on Ogle and one ...

Sounds like this could be failing during the final link of mplayer! Can you try

Is it possible to do this with xorg-x11:

Start up in 1024x768 virtual resolution, then use xrandr or Zoom (ctl alt +/-) to get 1400x1050.

Modes "1024x768" "1400x1050"

starts in 1024x768 but with virtual resolution is 1400x1050 (i.e., xrandr reports 1400x1050).

Virtual 1024 768

makes 1400x1050 ...

magicalbum wrote:but i'm already at 1024x768...

What is the output from xvinfo and xrandr?

no matter how many times I set it in the xorg.conf it never seems to get any higher.

Did you try specifying your resolution according to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml


Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "S3 Inc. ProSavage KN133 [Twister K]"
Monitor "Generic ...

Apparently Xv breaks when the screen resolution gets greater than its maximum image size. Since xvinfo gives

maximum XvImage size: 1024 x 1024

we are hosed if the (Virtual) X resolution starts out above this. Thus with a line like "Virtual 1024 768" in your xorg.conf, Xv will work, but then you ...

Here is a partial fix: fib in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and say your monitor is very slow...


Section "Monitor"
[...]
# HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
HorizSync 30.0 - 40.0
# VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 80.0


Now xv is happy, but resolution is only 800x600.

Maybe tweak Option XvHsync/XvVsync ...

p.s. i also installed xv but dunno if that did anything


Probably not; the image viewer "xv" is not related to the XVideo extension. To see if your X server supports it do


bash-2.05b$ grep XV /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation ...

I enjoy a decently working xv on a trident cyberblade.

Could you please post your xorg.conf or at least this part?


Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "trident"
VendorName "Trident Microsystems"
BoardName "CyberBlade/i1"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection


xvinfo says xv is working for ...

bigun89 wrote:This used to work until I upgraded Mplayer. Idea's?

Could you tell which version of mplayer did work for you? I also cannot get xv to work with mplayer-1.0_pre6, although xvinfo says it is there.