Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg on really old PC

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 12:13:20AM +0200, François-Xavier CARTON wrote > > I've searched on the Gentoo wiki, and found that I should use an old > version of mesa (<8.0) to get OpenGL support [1]. Given the inter-connectedness of linux libraries, you're not going to get an ancient version of

Re: [gentoo-user] backing up a partition

try fsarchiver On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > 180825 Philip Webb wrote: > > Thanks for the replies : > > it looks as if 'tar' mb adequate, but I'll think re it & make a test. > > I used 'tar -a' to copy the contents of the partition to a USB stick, > then copied them

[gentoo-user] Anyone using gentoo on POWER?

It is my understanding that both little and big endian work on the regular "linux" POWER9 machines so that you can use gentoo which is ppc64 not ppc64le for some reason - and I was wondering what peoples experiences are with this? what is package availability like? any problems? etc etc. Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update circle

On 08/23/2018 10:27 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-08-22, Zoltán Kócsi wrote: >> I have a Gentoo machine, which has not been updated for a while. Quite >> a long while, actually. > >> It seems that I'm kind of stuck. Wiping the disk and rebuilding the >> system from scratch is absolutely not

[gentoo-user] Xorg on really old PC

Hi, I'm installing Gentoo on a really old PC (with a Pentium III and a i815 graphic card). I've installed a minimal Gentoo system, and I'm trying to get Xorg working. I've searched on the Gentoo wiki, and found that I should use an old version of mesa (<8.0) to get OpenGL support [1]. So I

Re: [gentoo-user] backing up a partition

180825 Philip Webb wrote: > Thanks for the replies : > it looks as if 'tar' mb adequate, but I'll think re it & make a test. I used 'tar -a' to copy the contents of the partition to a USB stick, then copied them back to another partition, updated Lilo & it booted successfully into the new