Re: [gentoo-user] Name error / PF is null???

[Sevak Avakians]

Thanks for the hints, Bob!  I was actually just following the instructions here:
http://www.epiawiki.org/
The rest are inline:

Have you set up the USE flag - cle266?
And some suggested other USE flags - xvmc, xv, xvid, dga, sse, mmx?

I hadn't cle266, xvmc,   or dga

And why the 2.4.x kernel?  The 2.6 series will give better performance,
as well as having a better scheduler.  digital media really wants a
realtime - as in a 1 ms, response setup.  So things like - XFS filesystem
with realtime turned on and a real time scheduler. 

I was having some trouble emerging some programs with 2.6, so I switched to 2.4 and the problems went away.  I'll probably switch back to 2.6 after setting everything up to see if there are anymore problems.

And btw - are you sure you have Unichrome Gfx?  What does - lspci give you?
I ask as the system here shows Castle Rock Gfx - 

0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03)

Thus my xorg config file is setup thusly -

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "VIA Castlerock"
    Driver      "vesa"
    #VideoRam    65536
    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection

Yes, lspci shows me Castlerock, too.   But my User's Manual says "Integrated UniChrome graphics with MPEG-2 accelerator".  Are these 2 different beasts or the same thing?


Sevak