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On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 4:05 PM, David Fellows<fellows@×××.ca> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:55:15 -0400 |
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> "John P. Burkett" wrote - |
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>> Drake Donahue wrote: |
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>> > Burkett asked: |
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>> > Should I back up any particular files before doing "emerge |
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>> > =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2"? You will simply be restoring the |
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>> > bits that depclean removed. |
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>> > |
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>> > No files should need to backed up. |
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>> Thank you David. Doing |
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>> emerge =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2 |
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>> produced the following response |
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>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy |
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>> "=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2" |
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> That is true. 2.6.22 has been removed from the portage tree. Your choices are: |
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> 1) to find some one who still has the 2.6.22-r2 ebuild and the corrresponding |
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> sources and patches and create an overlay from them, then use that to |
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> emerge from. |
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> 2) find someone who still has the top level Makefile from 2.6.22-r2 who will |
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> send it to you. And hope that that is all you are missing. |
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> 3) Upgrade to a newer kernel. Presumably the latest stable that is compatible |
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> with your desired driver version. |
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> Realistically 3 is your only reasonable option. The downside is you will have |
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> to do a kernel configuration that is consistent with your existing |
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> configuration. |
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> You will want to read the kernel upgrade guide first. |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml |
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> Remember that emerging a kernel source only installs the source files. |
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> Compiling the kernel is another step. You may already have a suitable kernel |
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> source emerged. eselect kernel list will show which are emerged as will |
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> ls -l /usr/src |
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>> |
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>> I also tried |
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>> emerge -s gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2-osmp |
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>> and a few other variations without finding any ebuilds. |
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> |
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> The osmp is a local identifying tag specified by the person that built |
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> your kernel. The smp probably means symetric multiprocessor. No idea |
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> what the o stands for. |
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>> |
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>> Ideas about how to emerge the sources would be very welcome. |
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> Dave F |
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I haven't followed this thread so I'll reread it to get caught up. |
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However I've found with ati-drivers that you have to be VERY careful. |
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I have two Asus Pundit-R boxes which use the ATI driver so that I can |
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get video out on s-video. The problem is that I'm stuck - to the best |
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of my knowledge - with the following pair: |
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myth12 ~ # eix -Ic ati-drivers |
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[D] x11-drivers/ati-drivers (8.28.8-r1@05/19/07 -> (~)8.28.8!s): Ati |
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precompiled drivers for recent chipsets |
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myth12 ~ # uname -a |
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Linux myth12 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 #2 PREEMPT Sat May 19 17:55:30 PDT 2007 |
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i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.26GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux |
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myth12 ~ # |
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The issue is that ATI dropped support for my onboard video chip with |
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anything later than 8.28.8 and that won't work with anything newer |
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than 2.6.19. |
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Portage removed everything from my system at one point so I had to dig |
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around for a while to get copies and then masked everything higher to |
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stop updates. |
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If that kernel/driver pair would do you any good - doubtful - then let me know. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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