Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] working Old World Linux Mac

[tom]

Mark Guertin wrote:

> quik is in portage, were there problems with it?  We don't suggest quik as a
> default as on some machines with broken OF it doesn't work right (my
> wallstreet for example), and for many people playing in OF is not a simple
> option unless they have a serial terminal handy ;)

Booting directly into linux is so much nicer than bootx tho...

I don't think quik would compile with gcc 3.2. I built it from source on 
a debian box with 2.95.3. To tell you the truth I don't remember if I 
tried to emerge it from portage or tried to directly compile it.

There is some good info on OF for oldworlds on netbsd.org(port macppc), 
and penguinppc.org has a page or two of quik info.

>>also, my ancient twinturbo video driver was not built by default in the
>>> build of X, so I grabbed a binary module from debian which has worked
>>> fine. I love apt-get, but for me, the optimized compiles have made
>>> gentoo the distro for me.
>
>
> Can you file a bug on this at bugs.gentoo.org please?

The next time I emerge X, I will probably do it in stages and modify the 
site.def or site.cfg file (where you can specify what drivers are built) 
as outlined in a recent post on the nvidia cards. I need to do the same 
thing with ghostscript for the proper device set. I wonder if it would 
be possible to incorporate hardware devices supported into your USE 
settings? I don't know that something like this is as much a bug as just 
a lack of interactive configuration options at compile time. I'm still 
learning portage and ebuild, so I'm more apt to put it down to my lack 
of knowledge rather than a gentoo problem. How many people are still 
using their 6 yr old dual processor pci-macs?

tom


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