Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alpha

From: Matt Turner <mattst88@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
Cc: "X.Org Devel List" <xorg-devel@×××××××××××××××××.org>, debian-alpha@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] Need X testers on Alpha. I think we've got it this time.
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:52:47
Message-Id: b4198de60910080652g1210cf61i15e6907f9ce3da67@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alpha] Need X testers on Alpha. I think we've got it this time. by Brian Parkhurst
1 On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Brian Parkhurst <brianp@×××××××.net> wrote:
2 > How do you recommend I download your repo for compiling under gentoo?
3
4 The easiest/best way is to first install layman (emerge layman) and
5 with it add the 'x11' overlay.
6
7 See here for instructions wrt layman:
8 http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Overlay#Layman
9
10 Unmask/keyword =x11-base/xorg-server-9999 and its dependencies. (You
11 might want to use app-portage/autounmask to make this a more automated
12 task.)
13
14 Copy the xorg-server-9999.ebuild from your layman overlay to your
15 local overlay (/usr/local/portage/x11-base/xorg-server/). Edit the
16 file and change this line:
17
18 EGIT_REPO_URI="git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/xserver"
19 to
20 EGIT_REPO_URI="git://anongit.freedesktop.org/~mattst88/xserver"
21 In the folder where this new ebuild exists, run `ebuild
22 xorg-server-9999.ebuild digest`
23
24 At this point you should run `emerge =x11-base/xorg-server-9999` and
25 sit back and wait. When this has finished, emerge whatever X11 drivers
26 you need (xf86-input-evdev, xf86-video-{ati,glint}) and do some
27 testing.
28
29 I don't know what your level of proficiency with Gentoo is, but if
30 it's not high then this process will sound hard--trust me, it's really
31 not. The alternative would be much more complicated.
32
33 Thanks,
34 Matt

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