On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:47 AM, bn wrote:
> Mark Knecht ha scritto:
>
>> No, I need a new kernel also. The kernel on this machine is 2 years
>> old. Also, I have about a dozen packages masked so I've unmasked those
>> and will need to get the whole machine up to date.
>
> There is something I didn
Mark Knecht ha scritto:
> No, I need a new kernel also. The kernel on this machine is 2 years
> old. Also, I have about a dozen packages masked so I've unmasked those
> and will need to get the whole machine up to date.
There is something I didn't understand at all in this thread. Why did
you nee
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 06/25/2009 04:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>
>>> I thought emerge xf86-video-ati, then swapping Driver "flgrx" to Driver
>>> "radeon" in xorg.conf was all that is required??
>>
>> No, I need a new kernel also. The kernel on this machine
On 06/25/2009 04:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
I thought emerge xf86-video-ati, then swapping Driver "flgrx" to Driver
"radeon" in xorg.conf was all that is required??
No, I need a new kernel also. The kernel on this machine is 2 years
old. Also, I have about a dozen packages masked so I've unmask
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Adam Carter wrote:
>> I am scanning the /var/log/Xorg.0.log looking for info on what chip
>> this is. I'm not finding anything that says what Radeon family it's
>> part of. lspci tells me what I posted here already - that it's part of
>> the IGP 9100 family.
>
> htt
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 06/25/2009 03:46 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Adam Carter
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I havent been following this thread but have you checked the open source
>>> drivers? New features are always being ported in.
> > So you want the radeon/ati driver, the package name is
> xf86-video-ati, so I guess that means you want ati in VIDEO_DEVICES.
>
> It's "radeon" in recent X.Org, not "ati". Not sure when that
> changed. Probably with xorg-server 1.5.
Damn - I had checked the /usr/portage/x11-drivers directory
On 06/25/2009 04:04 AM, Adam Carter wrote:
What VIDEO_DEVICES setting might one use to get this driver called up?
Either ati or radeon and check that it installs Open Source?
So you want the radeon/ati driver, the package name is xf86-video-ati, so I
guess that means you want ati in VIDEO_DEVI
> I am scanning the /var/log/Xorg.0.log looking for info on what chip
> this is. I'm not finding anything that says what Radeon family it's
> part of. lspci tells me what I posted here already - that it's part of
> the IGP 9100 family.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ATI_Graphics_Proces
On 06/25/2009 03:46 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Adam Carter wrote:
I havent been following this thread but have you checked the open source
drivers? New features are always being ported in. The two options are;
- Radeon driver (module is named ati)
- Radeonhd driver
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Adam Carter wrote:
> I havent been following this thread but have you checked the open source
> drivers? New features are always being ported in. The two options are;
> - Radeon driver (module is named ati)
> - Radeonhd driver (module is named radeon)
>
> Check out
I havent been following this thread but have you checked the open source
drivers? New features are always being ported in. The two options are;
- Radeon driver (module is named ati)
- Radeonhd driver (module is named radeon)
Check out the current features here http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature
On Wednesday 24 June 2009 22:17:12 Mark Knecht wrote:
> I really think this is what a personal overlay is for, but as I've
> said for years, it's hard to build an overlay when you don't know what
> needs to be in it until it's been removed. And yes, something has
> removed these files, at least fro
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:17:12 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 1) It absolutely isn't that the hardware is unsupported, it's that a
> *feature* of the hardware (TV Out S-Video) became unsupported.
And the S-Video output is part of the hardware, so you do have
unsupported hardware.
> 2) Following your
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:42:11 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>
>> A different short-term solution might be to find another old junker
>> machine that is supported, building it out of junker parts. This would
>> be good if I had any certainty tha
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Is xorg-server-1.1.1 completely gone and I'm hosed? I'm not finding it
> on my my machine. The only variations on that theme seem to be in
> /var/db/pkg. No tar files, just other programming junk.
http://sources.gentoo.org/ is your friend :) Sp
On Wednesday 24 June 2009 02:28:50 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach. Those who cannot teach, HACK!
No, no - those who can't teach teach teachers. Or so my father used to say,
from what he said had been bitter experience.
--
Rgds
Peter
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:42:11 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > You can tell before you perform the update that the old version is no
> > longer in portage,
>
> How? I run eix-sync and at that point it's no longer in
> /usr/portage/distfiles.
AFAIK, eix-sync doesn't touch $DISTDIR. If it does, that's
Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:42:43 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have NEVER asked portage to keep a copy of EVERYTHING online.
>>>
>> Yet it does.
>>
>>
>>> I
>>> think it's a sinthat portage decid
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:42:43 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> I have NEVER asked portage to keep a copy of EVERYTHING online.
>
> Yet it does.
>
>> I
>> think it's a sinthat portage decides to remove files from MY machine,
>> files that I'm curr
Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>> On 06/24/2009 03:06 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>>> [...]
>>> Family gets no MythTV for a few days, or maybe forever?
>>>
>>> I'm trying to mask things to check this and emerge is really mad at me.
>>>
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:06:42 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> I absolutely HATE this about portage. Update your machine just
>> thinking about trying a new piece of software and then find you cannot
>> immediately go back. Gentoo was supposed to
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:42:43 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I have NEVER asked portage to keep a copy of EVERYTHING online.
Yet it does.
> I
> think it's a sinthat portage decides to remove files from MY machine,
> files that I'm currently using, files that I require.
It doesn't. It may remove fil
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:06:42 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I absolutely HATE this about portage. Update your machine just
> thinking about trying a new piece of software and then find you cannot
> immediately go back. Gentoo was supposed to be about choice. Seems
> it's not about my choice anymore.
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:06:42 -0700
Mark Knecht wrote:
> Am I hosed again? Did updating portage break my machine by removing
> what I was just using:
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. ;-)
Portage does drop many old packages over time, to keep the package
database to a reasonable size.
--
-- -
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 06/24/2009 03:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> Gentoo is for me. Gentoo is the only distro I run and the only one
>> I've run for at least 6 years. Gentoo has run on THIS VERY MACHINE for
>> over 4 years and it is the ONLY distro that ha
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 06/24/2009 03:06 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>> Family gets no MythTV for a few days, or maybe forever?
>>
>> I'm trying to mask things to check this and emerge is really mad at me.
>
> As a last attempt at damage control, try th
On 06/24/2009 03:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Gentoo is for me. Gentoo is the only distro I run and the only one
I've run for at least 6 years. Gentoo has run on THIS VERY MACHINE for
over 4 years and it is the ONLY distro that has EVER run on this
machine. Today I run eix-sync and emerge xorg-x11 a
On 06/24/2009 03:06 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
[...]
Family gets no MythTV for a few days, or maybe forever?
I'm trying to mask things to check this and emerge is really mad at me.
As a last attempt at damage control, try the full update anyway. Remove
"fglrx" from VIDEO_CARDS and replace it wit
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 06/24/2009 03:06 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>> Am I hosed again? Did updating portage break my machine by removing
>> what I was just using:
>> [...]
>>
>> Is xorg-server-1.1.1 completely gone and I'm hosed? I'm not finding it
>
On 06/24/2009 03:06 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
[...]
Am I hosed again? Did updating portage break my machine by removing
what I was just using:
[...]
Is xorg-server-1.1.1 completely gone and I'm hosed? I'm not finding it
on my my machine. The only variations on that theme seem to be in
/var/db/pkg.
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> On 06/24/2009 02:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi all,
Main question is whether there is any change in the way I s
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 06/24/2009 02:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> Main question is whether there is any change in the way I select
>>> the fglrx driver with xorg-server-1.5?
>>>
>>>
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 06/24/2009 02:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> Main question is whether there is any change in the way I select
>> the fglrx driver with xorg-server-1.5?
>>
>> I have a big emerge running on one of my MythTV frontends th
On 06/24/2009 02:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi all,
Main question is whether there is any change in the way I select
the fglrx driver with xorg-server-1.5?
I have a big emerge running on one of my MythTV frontends that uses
an old 2.6.19 kernel with an old 8.28 ati-driver package. The mac
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