Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Installing Gentoo on a Powermac G5

2006-10-03 Thread David Gurvich
The video should not be a big problem. If you are going to use xorg-7.1, make sure to apply the patch to the ati driver. I could not get xorg.conf set up correctly, until Xorgautoconfig gave me a starting point. I haven't used ppc64, but many of the developers are doing so. In fact, I've

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] emerging kdebase-kioslaves

2006-05-05 Thread David Gurvich
You are trying to emerge one of the packages in the modular build of KDE. You would first need to uninstall the monolithic buiild as it has the same packages but builds them at the same time. The monolithic build may be more stable once done, that is unclear, but the modular is easier to

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] ATI configuration?

2006-05-04 Thread David Gurvich
- From: David Gurvich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 4:59 AM To: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] ATI configuration? There is an ebuild Xorgautoconfig specifically for this purpose. The generated xorg.conf needs some slight adjustments

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Newbie question

2006-04-29 Thread David Gurvich
The suggested method of using the OS X installer to partition the hard drive would wipe out your files. You may want to back up your user directory first. On Saturday 29 April 2006 2:17 am, Richard wrote: have to start some where... coming form Mac OSX, and downloaded the ppc 32 bit

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Hwclock error

2006-03-28 Thread David Gurvich
Drivers -- Machintosh device drivers. Now I'm tryng to install X and KDE. David, how did you installed KDE or Gnome in your machine, I'm with some problems in configs for video. Can you send me you xorg.conf? Best regards. On 3/28/06, David Gurvich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would suggest

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Hwclock error

2006-03-27 Thread David Gurvich
I would suggest seeing what modules are loaded by the CD. As it happens, my current computer is a dual-G4 almost identical to the one described. I'll attach my .config to this message. On Sunday 26 March 2006 3:11 pm, Flisk . wrote: Hi folks, Here where I work we received a G4 computer