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On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 12:18 -0400, ken jones wrote: |
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> Ferris, |
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> re: GENTOO FORUMS; kjones |
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> You wrote,"Please join #gentoo-sparc on freenode IRC channel; someone |
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> else is going to have to help with this, too, because I am just not |
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> seeing it." |
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> |
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> I went to my Widows XP system and found: |
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> "Java IRC Webchat freenode |
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> IRC Server: irc.freenode.net:6667 IRC Channel: #gentoo-sparc" |
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> It brings up what I believe is a JAVA driven window. Red outline. List |
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> of present participants. Public and Private select buttons. A single |
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> line into which I can type. |
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> All I see are people signing in and out. No meaningful discussions of |
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> anything. I am confused. |
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Often that's all you will see. Activity is sporadic. Besides me, |
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others marked as present and as channel operators should be able to |
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help. Just try saying something --- if you see what you said. |
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I keep repeating this, but don't understand your problem: |
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You MUST get a clean install of |
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emerge eselect |
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emerge eselect-opengl |
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emerge glproto |
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If those fail, something quite unusual is going on with your system. |
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Make sure you have USE="X opengl dri" set someplace. You can try |
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emerge -C eselect eselect-opengl glproto mesa |
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to recover. |
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Once those are installed, then |
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emerge mesa |
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should "just work" assuming your VIDEO_CARDS= xxx is set correctly |
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in /etc/make.conf. For example, on my systems, I need the Creator/Elite |
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video driver, and have |
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VIDEO_CARDS='dummy fbdev sunffb' |
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(sunffb is the driver for Creator and Elite frame buffers). |
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(Actually, after that 'emerge -C ...' just 'emerge mesa' should bring in |
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everything you need. To make sure, see what 'emerge -pv mesa' tells |
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you.) |
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> My history with sparc is two machines that I rescued from dumpsters. |
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> One I have been running with Aurora since 2004. The other I got this |
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> spring on which I tried to run Gentoo 2006. |
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> I am tempted to blow away everything on the hard drives, boot again |
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> from my installation disk and start all over. I hesitate because it has |
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> been very difficult to get as far as I am. All I want is X11. I do not |
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> even need a fancy manager. |
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> If I can not make any better sense of 'Java IRC Webchat freenode' I |
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> shall do just that. |
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> Thank you again and again. |
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> Ken Jones |
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Sorry I can't really address your problem. You can ask gustavoz if |
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anyone else has had any problems with 'emerge mesa' --- I haven't heard |
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of any. |
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Regards, |
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o> |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) |