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GenKreton
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| I followed exactly what spyderous wrote and it was nearly flawless. I updated my kernel to love sources and uses their xorg wrapper as well. The only problem I had was fixing the Luxi font family. The solution was found in another thread. |
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tecknojunky
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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For those, like me, who end up with 3 gazillions of config files to update, I made this little script that will automatically update the remaining ._cfg????_* files in the $CONFIG_PROTECT folders.
Be sure to first manually diff crucial files (like xf86conf and such).
Maybe not the most efficient way to do it in terms of algorithm, but it does the job. If you have a more elegant way, don't be shy.
| Code: | #!/bin/sh
scan() {
echo "Scanning files in $1 ..."
for entry in `ls -A $1/`
do
if [ -d "$1/$entry" ]
then scan $1/$entry
elif [ "`echo $entry | sed '/\._cfg...._/!d' 2>/dev/null`" ]
then
from=$1/$entry
to=$1/`echo $entry | sed 's/\._cfg...._//'`
echo "$from -> $to"
# mv -fv $from $to
fi
done
}
[ "$CONFIG_PROTECT" ] || exit
for CP in $CONFIG_PROTECT
do
scan $CP
done
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As it is, it will only print what it will do. If you want the script to actually commit the moves, remove the second comment in it and rerun.
EDIT:
Ahem! I meant, almost all remaining config files. It seem not all protected folder are listed in $CONFIG_PROTECT, so it misses a few. Rerun etc-update after you ran this script.
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iswm
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| Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 6:28 am Post subject: |
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Having serious issues with fonts. They're freaking ugly in everything. Gaim, firefox, fluxbox, everything. I've done a bunch of searching and tried everything. I have a feeling my /etc/fonts/local.conf may be wrong:
| Code: | <?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts/local.conf file for local customizations -->
<fontconfig>
<!--
Enable sub-pixel rendering
<match target="font">
<edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
<dir>/usr/share/fonts/corefonts</dir>
</match>
-->
</fontconfig> |
I've made sure all the paths in my xorg.conf start with /usr/share/ and I've tried recaching them. I reemerged corefonts freetype and fontconfig.
Any ideas?
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D'oh, noticed a big flaw with my /etc/fonts/local.conf.
I currently have
| Code: | <?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts/local.conf file for local customizations -->
<dir>/usr/share/fonts/corefonts</dir>
<fontconfig>
<!--
Enable sub-pixel rendering
<match target="font">
<edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
</match>
-->
</fontconfig> |
Still no go. Going to try <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir> next.
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<dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir> still brought no luck.
Edit3:
| Code: | <?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts/local.conf file for local customizations -->
<dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/share/fonts/corefonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
<fontconfig>
<!--
Enable sub-pixel rendering
<match target="font">
<edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
</match>
-->
</fontconfig> |
No good. |
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dberkholz
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| Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 7:26 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | <?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts/local.conf file for local customizations -->
<fontconfig>
<!--
Enable sub-pixel rendering
<match target="font">
<edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
</match>
-->
<dir>/usr/share/fonts/corefonts</dir>
</fontconfig> |
Within the fontconfig tag, outside of everything else. |
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col
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| Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 7:30 am Post subject: |
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I fixed mine using something like this :
rm -rf /etc/fonts
emerge fontconfig
emerge corefonts
emerge sharefonts
emerge freefonts
rc-update add xfs default
/etc/init.d/xfs start
in your xorg.conf comment out all the fontpath lines and tell it to use xfs like:
FontPath "unix/:-1"
startx |
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iswm
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| Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 7:48 am Post subject: |
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| spyderous wrote: | | Code: | <?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts/local.conf file for local customizations -->
<fontconfig>
<!--
Enable sub-pixel rendering
<match target="font">
<edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
</match>
-->
<dir>/usr/share/fonts/corefonts</dir>
</fontconfig> |
Within the fontconfig tag, outside of everything else. |
Tried that, still didn't seem to do anything.
| col wrote: | I fixed mine using something like this :
rm -rf /etc/fonts
emerge fontconfig
emerge corefonts
emerge sharefonts
emerge freefonts
rc-update add xfs default
/etc/init.d/xfs start
in your xorg.conf comment out all the fontpath lines and tell it to use xfs like:
FontPath "unix/:-1"
startx |
Gave that a shot, still didn't fix it.
This is horribly frustrating. |
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col
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| Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 10:56 am Post subject: |
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| iswm wrote: | | spyderous wrote: | | Code: | <?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts/local.conf file for local customizations -->
<fontconfig>
<!--
Enable sub-pixel rendering
<match target="font">
<edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
</match>
-->
<dir>/usr/share/fonts/corefonts</dir>
</fontconfig> |
Within the fontconfig tag, outside of everything else. |
Tried that, still didn't seem to do anything.
| col wrote: | I fixed mine using something like this :
rm -rf /etc/fonts
emerge fontconfig
emerge corefonts
emerge sharefonts
emerge freefonts
rc-update add xfs default
/etc/init.d/xfs start
in your xorg.conf comment out all the fontpath lines and tell it to use xfs like:
FontPath "unix/:-1"
startx |
Gave that a shot, still didn't fix it.
This is horribly frustrating. |
are you sure you did the rm -rf /etc/fonts ? are there any errors when you start xfs or run fontconfig ? |
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iswm
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Joined: 10 Jan 2004
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Location: Tucson, AZ
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| Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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| col wrote: | | iswm wrote: | | spyderous wrote: | | Code: | <?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts/local.conf file for local customizations -->
<fontconfig>
<!--
Enable sub-pixel rendering
<match target="font">
<edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
</match>
-->
<dir>/usr/share/fonts/corefonts</dir>
</fontconfig> |
Within the fontconfig tag, outside of everything else. |
Tried that, still didn't seem to do anything.
| col wrote: | I fixed mine using something like this :
rm -rf /etc/fonts
emerge fontconfig
emerge corefonts
emerge sharefonts
emerge freefonts
rc-update add xfs default
/etc/init.d/xfs start
in your xorg.conf comment out all the fontpath lines and tell it to use xfs like:
FontPath "unix/:-1"
startx |
Gave that a shot, still didn't fix it.
This is horribly frustrating. |
are you sure you did the rm -rf /etc/fonts ? are there any errors when you start xfs or run fontconfig ? |
I did rm -rf /etc/fonts, and I get no errors when I start xfs. However, I'm not sure what you mean by run fontconfig.
Edit:
I hate to say this, but if I can't get these fonts looking like normal within the next day or so, I'm just going to switch back. I just can't stand these fonts, and I'm getting to almost record frustration levels. I've read ever thread I can find relating to font issues and NOTHING has fixed my problem. I'd rather take the near deprecated XFree over the as of now, unreadable, headache causing, stress raising Xorg.
Sorry, but I had to vent. This is seriously annoying the hell out of me. Thanks to everyone who has helped so far. |
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kurifu
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I love it! It worned well, and xorg-x11 is a beautifull system. My fonts look nicer, it runs noteabsy faster, and my usb mouse no longers hangs when the system loads until I move it for a few seconds...
I wish I had of changed sooner |
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Boris27
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Anyone have problems with movies? Both mplayer and Kaffeine (or other Xine players) don't show video!
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Grrliegeek
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| Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 2:52 pm Post subject: The X font deuglification howto |
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iswm - have you tried the X font deuglification howto?
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/FDU/
It was written for xfree86 so you will have to make minor adjustments to allow for x.org's file paths.
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iswm
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| Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 10:52 pm Post subject: Re: The X font deuglification howto |
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| Grrliegeek wrote: | iswm - have you tried the X font deuglification howto?
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/FDU/
It was written for xfree86 so you will have to make minor adjustments to allow for x.org's file paths. |
No go...
/me sighs and reemerges XFree.
I guess xorg is just going to have to wait. I suppose I'll try again when it's marked as stable on x86.
Edit:
Switched back to xfree, and my fonts are still messed up. Don't really know what to do now, but there are many things now that I simply can't read because of these fonts. If I can't fix this issue soon, I'm either going to have to reinstall or go back to Windows... Oh dear god, this sucks. |
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G-Style
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What is the difference between x.org and xfree
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og-phantom
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| Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 9:44 am Post subject: ATI drivers and Xorg-X11 |
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for some reason xorg doesn't like the ATI glx driver being used on startup... I would get the "glx unavailable...blahblah" if I don't do this;
before starting x;
opengl-update xorg-x11
start x
in a terminal;
opengl-update ati
then I can play UT2004 or any other game. with just the opengl-update xorg-x11, UT2004 refuses to run. I can only use glxgears (yea!) or anyother windowed basic opengl app. Also, after using the above fix, fgl_glxgears works, whereas before (with just the xorg-x11 glx) it wouldn't run (couldn't get fbconfig error). I guess this is just a quirk of the new fork. Xorg-X11 seems a tad faster than the XFree86 fork. Hope this helps anyone with a Radeon... |
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og-phantom
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| Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 9:49 am Post subject: no video with Xine or Mplayer.... |
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| Boris27 wrote: | | Anyone have problems with movies? Both mplayer and Kaffeine (or other Xine players) don't show video! |
hmmm...working ok over here...just tested it with "Resident Evil"  ... Both Xine and Mplayer showed video fine. |
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Dinini
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| Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 10:40 am Post subject: |
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| G-Style wrote: | | What is the difference between x.org and xfree |
Initially it was simply a branch that happened due to the change in license for XFree86. It's since grown to be much more.
http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.7.0/doc/RELNOTES3.html#4 lists the feature enhancements that have happened since the branch took place. |
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mulicheng
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 5:49 am Post subject: Re: radeon mobility patch |
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| patroclo7 wrote: | I have a radeon mobility IGP 320 (U1). With xfree, I had dri functioning only patching a xfree 4.3.99.16... I read that many xfree long-term patches have been included in xorg. Does someone know if mine has been included too? As an alternative, do you know if there is a corresponding patch for xorg?
I'd like to switch, but enabling dri in xfree was such a nightmare that I do not want to risk to go back  |
I also have the Radeon mobility IGP 320 My Gentoo Laptop
I patched xorg-x11 with the latest patch for the xfree 4.4.0:
Patch Here
That patch applied and then I emerged xorg-x11 ok.
Here is the catch though. After patching xorg-x11, I couldn't build the kernel module (radeon.ko) like I did with 4.3.99.16. (I hacked it to compile-It would insmod ok but DRI didn't work). So.. I used the kernel module I was using before and walla.. it works.
Because I can't build a new .ko with the xorg-x11 sources I'm stuck using the 2.6.4 kernel until I learn more about the problem and find a solution that was intended for xorg-x11 I guess. |
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gentooalex
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I did an emerge xorg but it is hanging on :
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* Switching to ati OpenGL interface...
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I don't know if i should try to remerge it or if it just takes more than 15 minutes to switch to the ati opengl interface?
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gentooalex
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Ok, I just killed that and did emerge -uD xorg and it said :
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!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=x11-base/opengl-update-1.7" have been masked.
!!! possible candidates are:
- x11-base/opengl-update-1.7 (masked by: ~keyword)
- x11-base/opengl-update-1.7.1 (masked by: ~keyword)
!!! (dependency required by "x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0" [ebuild])
!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.
root@localhost alex # emerge -uD xorg-x11
Calculating dependencies -
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "x11-terms/xterm" have been masked.
!!! possible candidates are:
!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.
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So I added
| Code: | opengl-update ~x86
x11-terms/xterm ~x86
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to /etc/portage/package.keywords, but i get this error:
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configure: error: Unable to successfully link Athena library (-lXaw3d) with test program
!!! ERROR: x11-terms/xterm-191 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 365, Exitcode 1
!!! econf failed |
Oh yeah, opengl-update ati still hangs, even when i do it manually.
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Lejban
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| Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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Had the same prob when updating today... You did the right thing... try this in your /etc/portage/package.keywords instead:
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x11-base/xorg-x11 ~x86
<=x11-terms/xterm-184 ~x86
opengl-update ~x86
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gentooalex
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| Lejban wrote: | Had the same prob when updating today... You did the right thing... try this in your /etc/portage/package.keywords instead:
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x11-base/xorg-x11 ~x86
<=x11-terms/xterm-184 ~x86
opengl-update ~x86
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That works. Also, i did that "dirty little hack" that Sastraxi mentioned, and 3d acceleration now works.
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2sheds
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| Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| iswm wrote: | | col wrote: | | iswm wrote: | | spyderous wrote: | | Code: | <?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts/local.conf file for local customizations -->
<fontconfig>
<!--
Enable sub-pixel rendering
<match target="font">
<edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
</match>
-->
<dir>/usr/share/fonts/corefonts</dir>
</fontconfig> |
Within the fontconfig tag, outside of everything else. |
Tried that, still didn't seem to do anything.
| col wrote: | I fixed mine using something like this :
rm -rf /etc/fonts
emerge fontconfig
emerge corefonts
emerge sharefonts
emerge freefonts
rc-update add xfs default
/etc/init.d/xfs start
in your xorg.conf comment out all the fontpath lines and tell it to use xfs like:
FontPath "unix/:-1"
startx |
Gave that a shot, still didn't fix it.
This is horribly frustrating. |
are you sure you did the rm -rf /etc/fonts ? are there any errors when you start xfs or run fontconfig ? |
I did rm -rf /etc/fonts, and I get no errors when I start xfs. However, I'm not sure what you mean by run fontconfig.
Edit:
I hate to say this, but if I can't get these fonts looking like normal within the next day or so, I'm just going to switch back. I just can't stand these fonts, and I'm getting to almost record frustration levels. I've read ever thread I can find relating to font issues and NOTHING has fixed my problem. I'd rather take the near deprecated XFree over the as of now, unreadable, headache causing, stress raising Xorg.
Sorry, but I had to vent. This is seriously annoying the hell out of me. Thanks to everyone who has helped so far. |
Have u got the truetype USE flag set in /etc/make.conf ? I set this and my Firefox fonts magically improved...
If u check the ebuild for XFree (or xorg) ffom 4.3 on u wil see..
| Code: | ### SAMPLE FROM EBUILD:
if use truetype && use !bindist
then
einfo "Unpacking MS Core Fonts..."
mkdir -p ${WORKDIR}/truetype; cd ${WORKDIR}/truetype
for x in ${MS_COREFONTS}
do
if [ -f ${DISTDIR}/${x} ]
then
einfo " ${x/\.\/}..."
cabextract --lowercase ${DISTDIR}/${x} > /dev/null || die
fi
done
ebegin "Done unpacking Core Fonts"; eend 0
fi
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ibrotha
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| aroben wrote: |
When you emerge -C xfree, this line is removed from /var/cache/edb/virtuals:
| Code: | | virtual/x11 x11-base/xfree |
So now the virtual/x11 dependency reverts to the default (which happens to be x11-base/xfree). This is why you see xfree listed when you do emerge -p.
To get around it, add this line to /var/cache/edb/virtuals:
| Code: | | virtual/x11 x11-base/xorg-x11 |
This will make xterm use xorg-x11 as it's dependency instead of xfree. |
Sweet.. You saved my day with that one.. Thanks alot! |
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darksides
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| spyderous wrote: | | aroben wrote: | Here's the deal with the xfree dependency (at least this is how I understand it):
x11-base/xorg-x11 wants to emerge x11-terms/xterm
x11-terms/xterm depends on virtual/x11 (basically, there needs to be some kind of X server installed for xterm to build)
x11-base/xfree is what fulfills this virtual/x11 dependency for most people (other things like x11-base/kdrive would also work)
When you emerge -C xfree, this line is removed from /var/cache/edb/virtuals:
| Code: | | virtual/x11 x11-base/xfree |
So now the virtual/x11 dependency reverts to the default (which happens to be x11-base/xfree). This is why you see xfree listed when you do emerge -p.
To get around it, add this line to /var/cache/edb/virtuals:
| Code: | | virtual/x11 x11-base/xorg-x11 |
This will make xterm use xorg-x11 as it's dependency instead of xfree.
I think this is a bug in portage, because the xorg-x11 ebuild specifies that it provides a virtual/x11 equivalent, but portage doesn't realize this when calculating xterm's dependencies (even though it will be emerged after xorg-x11). Does anyone know if this is a legitimate bug?
-Adam |
Yes it's a bug, yes a patch exists, no it's not committed yet.
Try http://dev.gentoo.org/~jstubbs/patches/2.0.50-r6-empty-fakedb.patch
It allows to-be-merged packages to fulfill dependencies, but it doesn't work on virtuals. This means xterm should work, but ttf-bitstream-vera may need to be edited since it calls the virtual. |
YEP, this worked for me very well. Now only xorg is required by xterm & ati-drivers.
TNX TNX
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Antimatter
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| Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:02 am Post subject: |
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i followed this tip/trick and also the doc on the gentoo website and my translation from xfree to xorg went almost painless, other than little bit of recompiling for a few cl utilies so i could access internet in down time, and fact that my aterm is still broken things seems to be working fine, i also switched to ati drivers and it still worked just fine got a little bit faster glxgear score to boot so its good.
other than some clean up and stuff i would say my tranlation was mostly painless great tip
and another bonus, i just copied my orginal XFree86-4 conf and bam all of my fonts worked correctly, i screwed up somehow a while ago so half of my themes had null for fonts and or was greatly screwed up fonts, i just load up xorg and bam all of my themes were working again.  that's very cool
anyway just few cleanup to go and i'll be on my merry way. |
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