[gentoo-user] SOLVED: Re: depclean wants to remove hal, which kills xdm

2010-12-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Allan Gottlieb writes: > Helmut Jarausch writes: > >> On 12/21/10 15:41:20, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >>> My plan is to stay like this until xorg 1.9 hits ~amd64 since I >> >> It is already unmasked in ~amd64 (It's running just fine here) > > Bingo. There was a mesa problem a while ago (7.8.2) that

[gentoo-user] Re: Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?

2010-12-21 Thread James
Walter Dnes waltdnes.org> writes: > > I'm looking for a Boxing-Day gift for myself. The local Walmart shows > an interesting 17" Acer laptop at... I never had an Acer before. I have this video card, fanless: 2:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV710 [Radeon HD 4350] (prog

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove hal, which kills xdm

2010-12-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Helmut Jarausch writes: > On 12/21/10 15:41:20, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> My plan is to stay like this until xorg 1.9 hits ~amd64 since I > > It is already unmasked in ~amd64 (It's running just fine here) Bingo. There was a mesa problem a while ago (7.8.2) that caused me to mask =media-libs/mesa

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove hal, which kills xdm

2010-12-21 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 12/21/2010 9:41 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > To summarize > > 1. All is running fine but. > > 2. deplcean wants to remove hal and when it does xdm will not run. Is it just xdm that doesn't run? That is, if you disable xdm and log in via the console, can you run startx? It's possible that

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc and crossdev, anyone?

2010-12-21 Thread Petri Rosenström
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Bill Longman wrote: > On 12/18/2010 07:15 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Saturday 18 December 2010 10:18:43 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > >> I've found there's just too much overhead with distcc, plus much of > >> the work is still done locally. > > > > I expected t

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove hal, which kills xdm

2010-12-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/21/10 15:41:20, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > My plan is to stay like this until xorg 1.9 hits ~amd64 since I It is already unmasked in ~amd64 (It's running just fine here) Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove hal, which kills xdm

2010-12-21 Thread Dale
Allan Gottlieb wrote: Dale writes: Le 20 décembre à 15:12 Allan Gottlieb a écrit Something seems wrong. Yesterday depclean removed hal and then xdm wouldn't run. Re-merging hal (with -1) fixed this, but again today depclean wants to remove it. I'm running amd64 her

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove hal, which kills xdm

2010-12-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > > To summarize > > 1.  All is running fine but. > > 2.  deplcean wants to remove hal and when it does xdm will not run. > > 3.  I have run emerge world with --newuse, and have run revdep-rebuild, >    and have remerged xdm. > > 4.  Currentl

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove hal, which kills xdm

2010-12-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Dale writes: >>> Le 20 décembre à 15:12 Allan Gottlieb a écrit >>> Something seems wrong. Yesterday depclean removed hal and then xdm wouldn't run. Re-merging hal (with -1) fixed this, but again today depclean wants to remove it. > > I'm running amd64 here but xdm doesn'

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?

2010-12-21 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
2010/12/21 Adam Carter : > >> > > On 12/21/10 09:02:32, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: >> > >> If you plan to >> > >> use proprietary drivers then I'd use some other brand. >> > > >> > > Why? >> > > >> > > I have several machines with an onboard Radeon HD 3300 chip. >> > > The recent versions of

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?

2010-12-21 Thread Thanasis
on 12/21/2010 01:15 AM Walter Dnes wrote the following: > I'm looking for a Boxing-Day gift for myself. The local Walmart shows > an interesting 17" Acer laptop at... > http://www.walmart.ca/Electronics/Computers/Laptops/17quot-Laptops/Acer-Aspire-AS7551-3029-173-Notebook > > Reading the specs

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?

2010-12-21 Thread Adam Carter
> > > On 12/21/10 09:02:32, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: > > >> If you plan to > > >> use proprietary drivers then I'd use some other brand. > > > > > > Why? > > > > > > I have several machines with an onboard Radeon HD 3300 chip. > > > The recent versions of x11-drivers/ati-drivers (currently

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?

2010-12-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/21/10 11:46:21, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: > 2010/12/21 Helmut Jarausch : > > On 12/21/10 09:02:32, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: > >> If you plan to > >> use proprietary drivers then I'd use some other brand. > > > > Why? > > > > I have several machines with an onboard Radeon HD 330

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?

2010-12-21 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
2010/12/21 Helmut Jarausch : > On 12/21/10 09:02:32, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: >> If you plan to >> use proprietary drivers then I'd use some other brand. > > Why? > > I have several machines with an onboard Radeon HD 3300 chip. > The recent versions of x11-drivers/ati-drivers (currently 10.

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?

2010-12-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/21/10 09:02:32, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: > If you plan to > use proprietary drivers then I'd use some other brand. Why? I have several machines with an onboard Radeon HD 3300 chip. The recent versions of x11-drivers/ati-drivers (currently 10.11) run just fine with the lastest kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?

2010-12-21 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
2010/12/21 Walter Dnes : >  I'm looking for a Boxing-Day gift for myself.  The local Walmart shows > an interesting 17" Acer laptop at... > http://www.walmart.ca/Electronics/Computers/Laptops/17quot-Laptops/Acer-Aspire-AS7551-3029-173-Notebook > >  Reading the specs, it does not seem to be cutting