2008/12/23 m h <[email protected]>: > Folks- > > I just moved from Ubuntu 8.04 (32 bit) to Gentoo (64 bit) on my > Thinkpad t61p. After doing so, I've had X crash when toggling xine to > fullscreen (which wasn't happening in ubuntu). This happens with both > amd64 and ~amd64 versions of the intel driver. I guess I'm asking if > there are gentoo folk out there that are happy with their intel > driver, can they point me in the right direction. Are there overlays > I should be using? > > Sorry if this is off topic, I guess I could post the X logs, but I > figured I'd ask first if there are people who are satisfied (or have a > non-crashing driver) first. > as intel driver gets a big quota of git updates before being packaged, you might want to test a bleeding edge xorg + xorg drivers. the x11 overlay is what you need in this case. first install all the protos there, then go with the libs, then update mesa and xorg and drivers. also be aware that you need a currently working kernel version in /usr/src/linux, as the drivers that need to install modules look for it there. also you'll surely want to use the x11-drm provided by this overlay. you might also want to use a full ~amd64 world, since from my personal experience (ando also of other users) most of the time is better than the normal amd64 branch. just have them both in accept_keywords and you'll use this branch. then another good overlay with quality ebuilds is berkano: it has live versions of x264, ffmpeg, mplayer (it's better used on nvidia boards, since the vdpau is still not included in tar releases). another good overlay is desktop-effects, which has compiz and related packages (newer and also live versions). if you like testing stuff you might also want to try out flameeyes-overlay. the sabayon overlay contains some stuff not included in official tree, but if you want to use it, you'll have to mask the overlay and just use the package you'll want, since the -r version of sabayon is higher than portage official tree and will overwrite official tree. the other overlay that contains a big horde of packages not included in official tree is sunrise. here you'll find freenet and other goodies or badies. the java-overlay actually includes the icedtea package, the 64bit java plugin for firefox 64 bit, but it needs gcc built with gcj flag, which will continue to trigger its reinstall when doing revdep-rebuild. if you want to use the full 64bit capability of your system i'd suggest you unmask (not unkeyword, but unmask) the new netscape-flash version, which is only 64bit capable and install icedtea6. if you want to stand by until the new sun-jre-1.6 update 12 reaches the tree (it has official 64bit nsplugin for firefox) you won't be able to use java till then. i'd also suggest you to add "-Wl, --as-needed" to your ldflags since it will reduce the high ammount of unnecessary rebuilds after abi breakage changes to libraries by recompiling only the needed deps. the last thing i'd suggest is to have a personal overlay where you can manually modify your personal ebuilds. also i'd suggest you to put the distfiles to /var/tmp/distfiles (be sure not to mount the /var/tmp to a tmpfs before, if you want to keep the downloaded distfiles) and to have a backup copy of your base packages, like gcc, glibc, portage (use quickpkg to package them from your installed tree) or use the buildpkg feature of portage (this will build the quickpkgs for every package in your tree and will take out a huge ammount of disc space). also, if you have much ram, i'd reccomend the use of inram compilation (it's faster than normal disc compilation), but this is reccomended only to users who want to take advantage of their high ram disponibility.
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