Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg on really old PC
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 12:13:20AM +0200, François-Xavier CARTON wrote > > I've searched on the Gentoo wiki, and found that I should use an old > version of mesa (<8.0) to get OpenGL support [1]. Given the inter-connectedness of linux libraries, you're not going to get an ancient version of mesa to work with a new Gentoo install. Forget about OpenGL and undo the masks. Another option might be to set... VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev" ...in make.conf, and use the xf86-video-fbdev driver and see if that works. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
Re: [gentoo-user] backing up a partition
try fsarchiver On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > 180825 Philip Webb wrote: > > Thanks for the replies : > > it looks as if 'tar' mb adequate, but I'll think re it & make a test. > > I used 'tar -a' to copy the contents of the partition to a USB stick, > then copied them back to another partition, updated Lilo > & it booted successfully into the new partition, which works the same. > > -- > ,, > SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb > ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto > TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca > > >
[gentoo-user] Anyone using gentoo on POWER?
It is my understanding that both little and big endian work on the regular "linux" POWER9 machines so that you can use gentoo which is ppc64 not ppc64le for some reason - and I was wondering what peoples experiences are with this? what is package availability like? any problems? etc etc. Thanks! 0xDF372A17.asc Description: application/pgp-keys
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update circle
On 08/23/2018 10:27 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-08-22, Zoltán Kócsi wrote: >> I have a Gentoo machine, which has not been updated for a while. Quite >> a long while, actually. > >> It seems that I'm kind of stuck. Wiping the disk and rebuilding the >> system from scratch is absolutely not an option, the existing (and >> running) system must be updated somehow. > > Doing a reinstall will probably be far less work and less disruption > for the machines user's. You don't have to "wipe the disk" to do a > re-install. Yeah. I would suggest after the back up then you simply clone the disk and perform the re-install on another computer or in a VM so that you can fiddle with things and then just swap out the drives vs having down-time for your users potentially for days if something goes wrong on the actual server. It is what I do for situations like this and it works great.
[gentoo-user] Xorg on really old PC
Hi, I'm installing Gentoo on a really old PC (with a Pentium III and a i815 graphic card). I've installed a minimal Gentoo system, and I'm trying to get Xorg working. I've searched on the Gentoo wiki, and found that I should use an old version of mesa (<8.0) to get OpenGL support [1]. So I have masked recent versions of mesa and some Xorg packages in order to install the last version of mesa that is below 8.0. My package.mask is: >media-libs/mesa-7.10.3 >=app-eselect/eselect-opengl-1.2.6 >x11-proto/glproto-1.4.15 >x11-base/xorg-server-1.12.4-r5 I have no xorg.conf. When I run startx, the screen goes black and the Xorg server segfaults, according to the log file [2]. Nothing works after that, including the keyboard, so I cannot go back to a linux console. Maybe it is a configuration issue, or maybe I'm using a buggy version. Has anyone any suggestion on what configuration and versions I should use? Thanks, François-Xavier Carton [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Intel=599748=599742 [2] Xorg.0.log: http://sprunge.us/ZdWJNH
Re: [gentoo-user] backing up a partition
180825 Philip Webb wrote: > Thanks for the replies : > it looks as if 'tar' mb adequate, but I'll think re it & make a test. I used 'tar -a' to copy the contents of the partition to a USB stick, then copied them back to another partition, updated Lilo & it booted successfully into the new partition, which works the same. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
