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On 7/7/08, Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> 2008/7/6 Tonko Mulder <tonko.mulder@×××××.com>: |
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> > On 7/6/08, Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > as i've told you the x11 ebuilds are really good and the overall quality |
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> of |
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> > > the git xorg is quite impressive. the cairo and glitz ebuilds always |
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> have |
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> > > some problems with autoconf, but once in a while they compile. i think |
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> that |
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> > > this is due to some autoconf-wrapper issues, but i'm not sure.GL development package gentoo use the |
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> > > portage ones instead of the 9999 versions for them. |
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> > Already running the portage one :) |
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> > > as for eselect-opengl i have 1.0.6-r2 installed well and without |
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> issues. |
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> > > i've posted my bz2 for opengl. try putting it in your distfiles |
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> directory |
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> > > and retry installing. |
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> > Thanks for the bz2, after putting it in my distfiles all I had to do |
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> > was adjust the ebuild to accept my keyword (~amd64) and it didn't have |
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> > any trouble installing. |
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> i thought that you already were on ~amd64 since you asked for 1.0.6 ebuild |
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> that should be coded as unstable for amd64 branch... well, it doesn't really |
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> matter much... |
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I am on ~amd64 as far as I know, although amd64 appears in my emerge |
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--info for some reason. |
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> > I'll see when the git cairo wants to install. |
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> > Now I have another weird problem, I use my wireless network card (an |
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> > Atheros AR5006EG or and AR5007EG, lspci isn't that accurate I heard) |
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> > with ndiswrapper and sometimes it works and connects right away and |
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> > sometimes it can't detect any networks. And at times it detects the |
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> > networks but it can't connect for some reason. |
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> this is one of the things i've failed with.... there's a post in the forum |
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> if you search ar5006eg that points to an ebuild they say it works (a |
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> modified madwifi-ng driver) but i wasn't able to have it working (i think |
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> that it's limited to x86 architecture). as for ndiswrapper i know that the |
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> latest kernels are removing some ndiswrapper needed calls. also the |
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> ndiswrapper is known to be quite buggy: it either works well or doesn't |
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> really work.... i've had some terific experiences with it some time ago with |
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> the bcm wifi boards and stopped using it at all. i preffer not having a |
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> functionality than using that stuff installed. for what it worths, do you |
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> have the wpa_supplicant and the linux wireless utils (iwconfig and other |
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> utils) installed?! |
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I do have wpa_supplicant and the wireless utils installed. |
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> > Does anyone has an hint on that? Or anything else that helps, since |
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> > this is quite annoying |
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> > > > On 6/30/08, Tonko Mulder <tonko.mulder@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > > > After trying a few things a lot of thing refused to compile, so I |
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> got |
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> > > > > my external hard drive and started a new installation with the 2008 |
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> > > > > profile and the x11 overlay. And so far it is going well, if |
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> > > > > everything goes well I will move that installation to my current |
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> one. |
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> > > > > Just to keep you posted :) |
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> > > > > On 6/21/08, Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > > > > 2008/6/21 Tonko Mulder <tonko.mulder@×××××.com>: |
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> > > > > >> I'm in the middle of a emerge -e world, since the new portage |
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> > > requested |
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> > > > > >> this. |
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> > > > > >> A lot of things fail to compile, among these are |
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> > > x11-libs/libX11-9999 |
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> > > > > >> / libXext-9999 and libXi-9999 |
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> > > > > >> I don't know if they will compile later on or should I remove |
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> every |
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> > > > > >> driver for X? |
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> > > > > >> I believe that was in Beso's post. |
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> > > > > > probably they failed because of the new libxcb api which has |
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> removed |
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> > > 2 |
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> > > > > > useless libtool archive files that shouldn't be used from the |
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> start. |
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> > > the |
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> > > > > > other thing that might cause problems is portage deps resolver |
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> which |
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> > > > > > sometime is bad and would emerge some packages after the ones |
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> > > requiring |
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> > > > > > them. this usually happens often in an emerge -e world. |
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> > > > > > if you try to rebuild them after the world rebuild and you cannot |
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> > > build them |
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> > > > > > again, remove the installed versions (with emerge --unmerge |
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> libX11 |
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> > > linXext |
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> > > > > > libXi ) and reemerge them with emerge --oneshot libX11 libXext |
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> libXi. |
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> > > at |
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> > > > > > that point they should emerge. if they don't emerge emerge the |
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> > > portage ones |
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> > > > > > with xorg-server from portage and post the emerge logs so we can |
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> help |
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> > > you |
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> > > > > > out. you'll get also xorg-server error surely since libX11 isn't |
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> > > one |
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> > > > > > required as dep and, as i've told you, probably also libXtst and |
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> > > xdpyinfo. |
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> > > > > > today i have a little spare time and i'll search out for the |
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> > > synaptics |
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> > > > > > ebuild (with patches) to post in the case you own a synaptics or |
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> alps |
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> > > > > > touchpad. |
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> > > > > > dott. ing. beso |
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> > > dott. ing. beso |
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