Gentoo Archives: gentoo-mips

From: Andrew Finley <afinley@×××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-mips@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] R5000 o2 X11 and kde
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:57:05
Message-Id: 1102021016.4337.44.camel@populus
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-mips] R5000 o2 X11 and kde? by "Stephen P. Becker"
1 Hi Guys,
2 Thanks for the help, X build just fine and gdm looks o-so-nice. I tried
3 to emerge kde, but got the (masked by: ~mips keyword).
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5 How do I get around this?
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7 Should I get around this?
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9 Do I need to put something in my /etc/portage/package.unmask?
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11 With with all my questions, you made a mini-howto for dummies:-)
12
13 -andy
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18 On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 08:57, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
19 > Andrew Finley wrote:
20 > > Hi Steve,
21 > > I went back through and double checked everything, rebooted, and
22 > > resetenv, and presto, arcboot booted properly. Now we're cooking!
23 > >
24 > > Then tried to emerge X-org, which compiled fine but could not build a
25 > > config file. I looked for some documentation on the gentoo mips site
26 > > but didn't see much (and elsewhere). Is it possible to get X and
27 > > eventually kde running? Thanks again for your help.
28 > >
29 > >
30 >
31 > See Ian's message about the config file and building X with the static
32 > USE flag. As for kde, it should work just fine, although it may take
33 > two to three days to build it all.
34 >
35 > Steve
36 >
37 >
38 > --
39 > gentoo-mips@g.o mailing list
40 >
41 >
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Re: [gentoo-mips] R5000 o2 X11 and kde "Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@g.o>