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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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>> On 06/24/2009 03:06 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>>> [...] |
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>>> Family gets no MythTV for a few days, or maybe forever? |
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>>> I'm trying to mask things to check this and emerge is really mad at me. |
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>> As a last attempt at damage control, try the full update anyway. Remove |
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>> "fglrx" from VIDEO_CARDS and replace it with "radeon" (I assume you have a |
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>> Radeon card?) Delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see what happens. Maybe the |
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>> recent xorg driver for Radeons supports the S-Video port of your card |
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>> correctly. At least that's what I'm seeing while googling for |
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>> "xf86-video-ati S-Video". |
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> My, you are an optimistic fellow! OK, that's an idea, but I'll wait |
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> and do a little more browsing on the subject. All the threads I'm |
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> finding in Google start off with this feature NOT working. |
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> I think I'd do better to create some sort of personal overlay - over |
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> which I know little about - and try to get the files I need in there, |
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> as there is no guarantee that anything new supports this requirement. |
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> Of course, if I had a job and earned money then I could solve the |
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> problem that way, but I'm out of work, broke and cannot even think |
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> about going down that path. |
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This is the section I have for masking the new xorg and its little |
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friends. As a last resort, maybe this will help. |
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# ######## xorg-server masking ######### |
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>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r4 |
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=x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.3.2 |
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=x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.1.3 |
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=x11-proto/printproto-1.0.4 |
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=x11-proto/renderproto-0.9.3 |
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=x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.4 |
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That has worked for me but I do have a nvidia card. You may have to add |
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a couple things to this list. I'm still running the old xorg so far |
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tho. From what I have read, you can emerge xorg with the evdev USE flag |
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disabled and it should work the old way. Don't hold me to that because |
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I have not tried it. |
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As far as Gentoo removing files during a upgrade, it has to remove old |
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files. I can't tell you how many people complain if a old file gets |
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left behind during a upgrade. It can also cause problems if the old |
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file is not compatible with the new packages. Gentoo doesn't do one |
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thing for you, it doesn't hold your hand. If you break something, you |
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get to keep the pieces. Backups, saving binary packages and other |
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little tricks are always good to do. I do both backups and saving binary |
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packages. |
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Hope that helps or at least gives you another option to play with. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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