I've been wrangling with a new gentoo install, on an AMD X2 64 bit machine. It's been a problematic experience, but when the system works right, it works really right.
Printing has suddenly failed. I had installed foo2zjs in support of an HP P1005 printer, but it was masked by ~amd64. Then foomatic-db collided, so I upped that to ~amd64. Meanwhile, and I'm not sure this was the problem, the printer that had been working, and the deskjet that had also been working both started to fail. I've been wrestling with many issues, including alsa. There isn't any sound, and I"ve finally compiled a genkernel but the sound isn't working, neither is printing. I've seen a plethora of messages about failure to print, often cups. I have reinstalled cups, new useflags, restarted, done several things, no change. The printers are ok. Ubuntu's install disk has sound. I thought maybe alsasound was causing a problem, because when I stop the machine, it stalls on stopping alsa. I need to print. Maybe tonight I'll get on irc. Meanwhile, can someone suggest anything? Print jobs show up both in the localhost:631 and the gnome cups interfaces. They show up, and show as having printed. No such luck. I'll try to # emerge -ua --newuse world after adding ~amd64 to make.conf. maybe I don't belong with gentoo. I have to USE the computer. I can't find a distro I want, though, that I feel confident I can install quickly and be up to speed. I've cherried out this system with most of the tools I need. Maybe gotten too crazy with USE flags: ngs were set by the catalyst build script that automatically # built this stage. # Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example. CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" MAKEOPTS="-j3" # WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should be done lightly. # Please consult http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml before changing. CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" # These are the USE flags that were used in addition to what is provided by the # profile used for building. USE="mmx sse sse2 kpathsea gnome svg X avahi gtk hal dbus \ startup-notification xinerama cups xscreensaver nvidia usb truetype jpeg png \ raw tiff faac faad mp3 theora v4l2 vorbis x264 xvid encode \ pdf exif xml consolekit embedded kde qt3support" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" FOO2ZJS_DEVICES="hpp1005" LINGUAS="en" # Does it work to have layman sourced after?AED PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage source /usr/local/portage/layman/make.conf GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/"; SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" Some use flages in package.use net-print/foo2zjs foomaticdb net-print/hplip cupsddk app-editors/emacs-cvs gif jpeg png tiff xft net-print/cups ppds dbus X net-dns/avahi mdnsresponder-compat app-text/texlive doc dvipdfm graphics png x11-base/xorg-x11 bitmap-fonts truetype-fonts type1-fonts app-editors/emacs-cvs xft gnome-base/gnome-volume-manager automount media-video/transcode dvd net-p2p/deluge libnotify net-dns/avahi qt3 dbus media-gfx/gimp pdf I am using a few overlays: science, dev-zero, emacs. Thank you for any ideas on now to troubleshoot this. Also with Alsa. Alan Davis "...can the human soul be glimpsed through a microscope? Maybe, but you'd definitely need one of those very good ones with two eyepieces." -- Woody Allen, quoted by B. A. Palevitz
