[gentoo-user] xfree

[Sevak Avakians]

Hi,

(I'm new to the list.)

I'm running Gentoo 2.4.26 on  a Via Nehemia board and I'm having troubles with the X drivers.  I've found the documentation and bug reports http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22880 that proposes the following fix:

"via driver has been removed from xfree 4.3.0

please use xfree 4.3.99.8 instead (use /etc/portage/profiles/package.unmask to unmask it)/.

Problem is I cannot figure out how to emerge xfree.  I can't even find xfree in the gentoo package list."

Also, I've tried the following fix from http://www.epiawiki.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=EpiaXfree:

"...For the Open Source Driver to work you'll need a special version of the XFree86 development sources. You can download the appropriate ebuild here: link to unichrome project XFree86-4.4 (cache) then install it with emerge /usr/local/portage/x11-base/xfree-unichrome/xfree-unichrome-4.4.0-r??.ebuild, of course replacing that with the latest one. with ?? being the latest release."

But I get stuck at emerging xfree-unichrome.  I've downloaded it and placed it into a directory I created within /usr/local/portage/x11-base.  Then I've changed /etc/make.conf by adding PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage".  I've tried with and without the quotes but keep getting the same complaint from emerge that I need to change my PORTDIR or PORTDIR_OVERLAY.

Can anyone explain where I am going wrong, please?

Thanks!
Sevak