What model of Via Nehemiah board do you have? I'm too familiar with Via
stuff, but isn't the Nehemiah just a processor?
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Sevak Avakians wrote:
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_
<http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/unichrome/> _(cache)_
<http://www.epiawiki.org/wiki/tiki-view_cache.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Funichrome%2F>
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
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