Re: [gentoo-amd64] Moving X...

2006-06-29 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hamish wrote: > > Yeah. Again too many places to make changes, it doesn't lend itself to > swapping back & forth. Shame many other packages have the concept of multiple > versions. I'm not sure why X should be treated differently. Slotting versions

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problem with cups

2006-06-29 Thread Robert Longbottom
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 17:26 +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: > I've struggled long enough - now I'll ask for help. > > I've just built a new amd64 box and can't get cups to print. I > added "debug" to cupsd.conf and this is what I get in the log: > I [29/Jun/2006:16:00:30 +0100] Listening to /var/run

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Moving X...

2006-06-29 Thread Hamish
On Thursday 29 June 2006 17:41, Richard Fish wrote: > On 6/29/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it not possible to install the CVS version to /usr/local/X11R6, and > > then create a /etc/env.d/00X-cvs file to specify that > > /usr/local/X11R6/bin should appear first in the path? >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware not booting install cd

2006-06-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/29/06, Gavin Seddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: yes I checked this. Ok. What is it that you are trying to boot? -Richard -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Moving X...

2006-06-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/29/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it not possible to install the CVS version to /usr/local/X11R6, and then create a /etc/env.d/00X-cvs file to specify that /usr/local/X11R6/bin should appear first in the path? Actually it looks like you would need to modify /etc/profile or

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Moving X...

2006-06-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/29/06, Hamish Marson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (The reason I want multiple versions is for when I raise a problem with the XOrg developers for a problem not directly gentoo's, quite often they want you to try the CVS version... previously you could alter the prefix & just move a symlink...

Re: [gentoo-amd64] nvidia X server issue

2006-06-29 Thread cristi
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:10:36 -0500 Kyle Liddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The current nvidia drivers don't support xorg 7.1 (xorg-server > 1.1.*). You can either downgrade xorg-server, or switch to the nv > driver (that's what I did). The official nvidia drivers will > probably get xorg 7.1

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Moving X...

2006-06-29 Thread Hamish Marson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:55:07 +0100 Hamish Marson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there anyway to specify to the gentoo xorg-server package that >> you want it installed in /usr/X11R6 once more instead of under >> /usr? >>

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware not booting install cd

2006-06-29 Thread Gavin Seddon
yes I checked this. I'll try the iso. On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 09:22 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 6/28/06, Gavin Seddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > this is vmware-workstation. When I power in it starts. I get the > > vmware progress bar. It says 'examining hardware'. Then there is

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Update problem

2006-06-29 Thread Mark Haney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Doty wrote: > Mark Haney wrote: >>> Mike Doty wrote: > Mark Haney wrote: >>> I'm having a problem getting my system updated after updating to the >>> latest portage. I'm not a total portage noob, but am at a loss on >>> what's cau

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Internal Card Reader detection [SOLVED]

2006-06-29 Thread Jonathan Schaeffer
Well, I let this problem aside for a while. But my card reader works pretty well now. I compiled usb_core, usb_ohci, usb_storage as module and this way, lsusb reports about my card reader. great. Jo 2005/6/20, Jonathan Schaeffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi all, this could be off topic on this li

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Moving X...

2006-06-29 Thread Jonathan Schaeffer
Hi, Maybe you could just build xorg-server as a package without installing it and then use the redirection facilities of tar to unpack the packages in the directory you like. The drawback is that you won't be able to automatically upgrade xorg-server through portage, I suppose ... I'm surprised

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Moving X...

2006-06-29 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:55:07 +0100 Hamish Marson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there anyway to specify to the gentoo xorg-server package that you > want it installed in /usr/X11R6 once more instead of under /usr? > > Under /usr/X11R6 I can have several copies... Generic, CVS and old > working e

Re: [gentoo-amd64] eselect opengl set xorg-x11 keeps breaking my headers

2006-06-29 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Mittwoch 28 Juni 2006 01:12 schrieb Alex Bennee: > Despite no longer having the emulation libraries installed eselect keep > screwing up my headers to point at 32 bit glx stuff. This obviously > breaks various X related compiles. > > Does anyone know how I can stop it doing this? Unfortunately i

[gentoo-amd64] Moving X...

2006-06-29 Thread Hamish Marson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there anyway to specify to the gentoo xorg-server package that you want it installed in /usr/X11R6 once more instead of under /usr? Under /usr/X11R6 I can have several copies... Generic, CVS and old working etc... Moving it to /usr has meant I can