Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] can't emerge firefox on ppc

2005-08-01 Thread Alexander Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Holm wrote: Hello Alexander, could you please post the output from `emerge info`? here you go: Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/ppc/2004.2, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 ppc)

[gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed

2005-07-28 Thread Alexander Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi list, this probably isn't new but i didnt find any reference to it on the web and in the mailing list archives, so i'd like to apologize in advance to repost a possibly long answered question. when i try to emerge system --deep --newuse -upv

Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed

2005-07-28 Thread Alexander Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Janne Johansson wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:27 +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote: [blocks B ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0-r3 (is blocking media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1) What it says is that mozilla-firefox with a version number

Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed

2005-07-28 Thread Alexander Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Meyer wrote: Janne Johansson wrote: how can a package that is obviously not installed be blocking anything? It can't, but your package is installed and is blocking. BTW: unmerging the installed version of firefox worked fine. now my

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] OT: thermal management diff 2.4 vs. 2.6

2005-06-29 Thread Alexander Meyer
On Di, Jun 28 2005 at 07:22:33 -0400, Carl Hudkins wrote: On Tue June 28 2005 16:34, Stefan Bruda wrote: Oh, of course therm_adt746x won't load, sorry for not mentioning it. There is as far as I know no option in the kernel config for thermal management on these machines. I am clueless

[gentoo-ppc-user] OT: thermal management diff 2.4 vs. 2.6

2005-06-28 Thread Alexander Meyer
Hi list, since i dont't know where else to ask this question i figured i might as well ask it here. i'm running gentoo on my tibook 550 (powerbook3,3 that is in kernelspeak) and noticed that with a 2.4 kernel as well as under macos the fan hardly ever kicks in, even when the computer gets quite