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Aye, that it does, less useless cruft to install and compile.

When I used the gui install, I made the mistake of telling it to go ahead and install gnome/xorg and several other things, whoops, install took a LOT longer than nomral :unsure: At least doing a minimal install you can drop in flux/firefox-bin and build stuff as you have time and use the pc too. Doing the full blown gui install got a little ugly and rendered the pc useless for quite awhile :)

Yep, + and - in all distro's While the USE flags are nice and I like the idea, comparing install time of said package with -use something +time doesn't = good for me :) Just like all the binary distro's if there is something missing in a package (use), you can always rebuild the package (this is were the added time comes in) If there is something that isn't include (package) or something I want to test differently I just drop it in my users dir and can install/use as me and not root/system files ls $HOME/apps bin etc include lib man sbin share var Again, gentoo is a fine distro, just has more minus for what I want than plus's. Fedora has more meat and potatos that I like to use/test/play with than what I can get out of gentoo through the package system and usability. However, if Fedora didn't exist or went off from were it has been going than I would use gentoo.

Odd, I just opened it up from the link, maybe its slow and takes a bit to open it? Here is what is on the page:

~x86 is pretty bleeding and stable for me. I know, I didn't say it wasn't bleeding edge, just not as bleeding edge for me :) After I install gentoo, I spend the time adding keywords and rebuilding to match fedora, and realize I'm wasting my time when I can just run fedora :P I'm not knocking gentoo in anyway, i already said I would use it second, just listed the why's it is second for ME.

Odd that it wont find it, try and do a couple things, remove all the aac/faad packages and re-install them. You might also try going through this http://clug.net.nz/index.php/IpodSupportUnderLinux

Whereis you pkgconfig location $ rpm -ql pkgconfig /usr/bin/pkg-config /usr/lib/pkgconfig /usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4 /usr/share/man/man1/pkg-config.1.gz /usr/share/pkgconfig What does mp4.h belong too $ rpm -qf /usr/include/mp4.h faad2-devel-2.0-5.2.fc4.1 you might try $ AC_SEARCH_LIBS=/usr/include/ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/apps <SNIP> checking for library containing MP4FileInfo... -lmp4v2 checking mp4.h usability... yes checking mp4.h presence... yes checking for mp4.h... yes

did you look for mp4.h?

According to this http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/gtkp...ure.in?rev=1.74 It's looking for mp4.h so see if you have that [justin@kainos ~]$ locate mp4.h /usr/include/mp4.h If not, I don't know what your distro uses to track down file, but in fedora for example # yum provides mp4.h <snip> faad2-devel.i386 2.0-5.2.fc4.1 installed Matched from: /usr/include/mp4.h So either make sure you have a package like faad2-devel or whatever the mdk/pcos namig format is. And try again, (make clean) first. libfaad2_0-2.1-0.20050201.3tex http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/html/package_list.html Might be diff version number, but you should have that installed and that might have what you need, i'm taken some guess's here :) http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/tex...s/2004/RPMS.os/ [ ] libfaac0-1.23.5-1.1tex.i586.rpm 30-Jun-2005 04:02 34K [ ] libfaac0-devel-1.23.5-1.1tex.i586.rpm 30-Jun-2005 04:01 42K [ ] libfaad2_0-2.0-1.1tex.i586.rpm 16-May-2005 23:01 375K [ ] libfaad2_0-devel-2.0-1.1tex.i586.rpm 16-May-2005 23:01 14K [ ] libfaad2_0-static-devel-2.0-1.1tex.i586.rpm I think those are what your looking for, you might also install any mpeg packages to just to make sure you have all the libs you need. In fedora for example # yum install *\faa\* *\mpeg\* I don't know what pkg manager you use so how ever it can handle it. Oh, just for completeness :) http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/gtkp...ure.in?rev=1.74 this is still the same for "configure.in" of 99.4 so you need to find mp4.h :huh:

You have all the aac/mpeg stuff you need? Maybe you played around with it and did something else, try "make clean" and then ./confgure --prefix=$HOME/apps (or were ever you through your stuff)

When you do the configure, what does it end up with? Configuration for gtkpod 0.99.4 : -------------------------------- Host System Type .....: i686-pc-linux-gnu Install path .........: /home/justin/bin Preprocessor .........: gcc Compiler .............: gcc -g -O2 -Wall -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libglade-2.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/gpod-1.0 Linker ...............: gcc -lmp4v2 -lid3tag -pthread -Wl,--export-dynamic -lgthread-2.0 -lglade-2.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lxml2 -lz -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lgpod -lglib-2.0 GTK2 version .........: 2.8.13 GLib2/GThread version : 2.10.1 id3tag lib ...........: yes mp4v2 ................: yes -- will build with aac support NLS/gettext ..........: yes Now type 'make' to build gtkpod 0.99.4, and then 'make install' for installation. What versions of cairo/pango do you have installed? $ rpm -qa cairo\* pango\* gtk2\* gcc pango-1.11.99-1 cairo-1.0.2-5 pango-devel-1.11.99-1 cairo-java-1.0.2.0.20060301.rh1-0 gcc-4.1.0-2 gtk2-2.8.13-3 cairo-devel-1.0.2-5 gtk2-engines-2.7.4-3 gtk2-devel-2.8.13-3 Oh, and what distrobution are you on? :lol: it's in the subject, nevermind this question :)

I tested the installer the day it came out, it worked looked nice and all. Gentoo just isn't my pefered distro but I would use it second in the linux only world or third after solaris10/11. For me it's just the time to build I don't care for, even with fast processors. Along with my need to bleed and nothing realy comes close to fedora on bleeding yet staying stable. Arch is nice and all, but I have 64bit processor and like to use a 64bit distrobuiton.

Do you know what FS was on this? fdisk -l /dev/sda

Check if the firewire modules are being loaded lsmod | egrep 'ieee1394|sbp2' you might also look in dmesg for ieee and sd[abc] dmesg | egrep 'ieee|sd'

so where's the screenie? I need to make a video, istanbul keeps crashing after I save some of it, kind of a pita :( Other than the compiz features: http://en.opensuse.org/Compiz I don't think you see a lot different in look, some of the shading and what not looks nice, but visually I think its harder to tell. My wife thought it was cool when I started flipping the screens and all the compiz features, shes a windows person ;-)

CVS :D How do you download all the files? http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fXgl $ cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xserver login CVS password: <hit return> $ cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xserver co xserver You'll see more instructions there You can also follow something like this http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/kingta...n_amd64_and_xgl You'll also want to get compiz http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/compiz/ http://en.opensuse.org/Xgl http://en.opensuse.org/Compiz You pretty much have to build a seperate xserver to play with it. Also take a look at this http://www.hboeck.de/item/266 If you really haven't done much building of software from source, I wouldn't really recommend starting with Xserver. :P

CVS :D

I got XGl running, my screen looks sexy and spinns flips and all that cool stuff ;) I have to go out of town tonight, but if someone has some server space, I'll make a video and upload it? It's hot, really it is

One of my laptops would do that too ;)

Go into your volume control as your user $ gnome-volume-control Edit Preferences Check ON "External Amplifier" In the control applet, click on the Switches tab and make sure there is a check in External Amplifer and try your sound. you can also run system-config-soundcard See if that detects your snd card and hit the play button. What kind of Laptop is this? Manufactor/model

if you did "su" then you still have your users profile and will need to enter: /sbin/lsmod If you did "su -" will give you roots profile which /sbin will be in your $PATH, so more likely you did "su"

as root :) lsmod | grep modem if scarcrow is right on the name or whatever it is. echo snd-atiixp-modem >> /etc/hotplug/blacklist that will drop the name in blacklist file. It might be named snd_intel8x0m if thats the case, then lsmod | grep snd_intel8x0m echo snd_intel8x0m >> /etc/hotplug/blacklist

Sun Studio 10 http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=41e70b09 Sun Studio 11 http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/cc/products/get.html

Did you try the CPAN shell? perl -MCPAN -e shell Also, do you have a compiler installed? Usually here /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc try cc -v also if you do have cc installed, is it in your path echo $PATH if you have it installed in the location above and its not in your path, than add the following in your .profile export PATH=$PATH:/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc If you don't have the compiler than get it: http://javashoplm.sun.com/ECom/docs/Welcom...ansactionId=try