Just gone bleeding-edge!

[SoulSe]

When I got used to and confident with Mandrake, I went Cooker and stuffed things up... hey, it was fun.

 

So now I am very comfortable with and used to Gentoo - so I edited my make.conf file yesterday and enabled ACCEPT KEYWORDS = "~x86" and am now in the process of emerge -u world (doing the packages one at a time so it's reletavily safe and controllable).

 

I know it isn't completely bleeding-edge, but it is to the same degree that Cooker was.

 

So, has anyone done this with Gentoo? A completely unstable system (in some regards)?

 

How's it treating you?

[ac_dispatcher]

Hey SoulSe,

 

I just got my Laptop back from the fixers. It had a "fever" when the fans quit. I reinstalled Gentoo from scratch ~x86.

 

SOLID AS A ROCK.

 

No problems what so ever. I love Gentoo.

 

But I could have never learned enough to use it without Mandy :D

 

 

I decided to try a .deb Distro on my other computer. Man MEPIS rocks also!. I never new that Debian distros are like Gentoo. What I mean is once its installed on can just upgrade as nessassary.

 

Did you use Xfree or Xorg?

[bvc]

I did it for a brief period. Seemed pretty much like cooker really. App broken here and there, but nothing major. Fun.

[SoulSe]

Hey SoulSe,

 

I just got my Laptop back from the fixers. It had a "fever" when the fans quit. I reinstalled Gentoo from scratch ~x86.

 

SOLID AS A ROCK.

 

No problems what so ever. I love Gentoo.

 

But I could have never learned enough to use it without Mandy :D

 

 

I decided to try a .deb Distro on my other computer. Man MEPIS rocks also!. I never new that Debian distros are like Gentoo. What I mean is once its installed on can just upgrade as nessassary.

 

Did you use Xfree or Xorg?

XFree... don't know much about Xorg to be honest.

 

So far ~x86 is treating me well, it actually solved a common Gentoo problem with nvidia drivers and 2.6.6

[ac_dispatcher]

With most (including Mandy) dropping Xfree, a fork of it was created and called X.org. Or xorg-x11-6.7.0. Just some little changes here and there. Kinda weird changing your

 

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

 

not

 

/etc/X11/XF86Config-4

 

Here is two Forum pages on it:

 

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=1...der=asc&start=0

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=158911

 

Here is how I switched to Xorg

 

#rc-update del xdm default

reboot

 

#emerge -C xfree

#emerge xorg-x11

#emerge corefonts freefonts sharefonts

 

Edit (nano) /etc/X11/fs/config

and add:

 

/usr/share/fonts/corefonts,

/usr/share/fonts/freefont

 

 

#opengl-update xorg-x11

 

Made a sym link:

/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11 to /usr/lib/opengl/xfree

 

After that you need to watch your emerges. If at any time it wants to emerge xfree you will need to inject it.

 

#emerge --inject x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r5

 

Want to go real bleeding edge? go to a pure udev system.

 

http://webpages.charter.net/decibelshelp/L...rimer.html#UDEV

 

I wrote my own udev rule for my RF wireless mouse. So my /etc/X11/xorg.conf (XF86Config) reads:

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "RFmouse"

Driver "mouse"

Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"

Option "Device" "/dev/rodent" :P

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

Option "CorePointer"

EndSection

 

With udev you can identify any usb device and create a special sym link in /dev. Say you have two different usb sticks and you want one to always point to /mnt/stick1 and the other to /mnt/stick2. You can if you creat your own udev rule. and then change your /etc/fstab to point to your new sym links in /dev. In the case above I added the following to my :/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules

 

#RF Mouse

BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="U+P RF Mouse Receiver", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="rodent"

 

so every time I plug in my wireless mouse - /dev/rodent will appear. B)

[SoulSe]

:o

Whoa ac_dispatcher - some awesome new things for me to play with there - thanks!

 

Whenever I think of switching distros, I find something about Gentoo that keeps me with it.

 

I wonder when someone will bring out a nice GUI for portage - one of things I'd like to see still happen?

 

Have you found any benefits in using Xorg over Xfree? Has it changed/improved anything? Do the nvidia drivers work well with it?

[jlc]

I run ACCEPT KEYWORDS = "~x86" on everything but servers. call me

 

Haven't had BIG problems anywho. Nothing you can't fix with DuckTape.

Edited May 17, 2004 by cybrjackle

[ac_dispatcher]

Well there was some giu portage stuff a long time ago. Most dont work anymore

 

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Portage

 

I finally got porthole to work. I always liked kportage but I cant get it to compile anymore

 

porthole works.

 

http://porthole.sourceforge.net/

 

Porthole never worked right until I went to the above link and downloaded the ebuild:

 

Download This

 

extract it and overwrite the current :/usr/portage/app-portage/porthole with the download.

 

then

 

#emerge porthole

 

You may have to

 

#emerge /usr/portage/app-portage/porthole/porthole-0.3.ebuild

to install it.

 

FYI - I dont emerge form porthole or any other gui portage prog. I use it to search and read up on the ebuilds. I always emerge from CLI. Mos gui portage apps are real outdated.

 

Edit:

 

Sorry Im not sure if Nvidia works. I think so. I have my ATI Mobility M6 LY compiled into the kernel. :P

 

Edit #2:

I got a little better performace with Xorg. FPS went from about 580 to 630. The reason I switched is because Xfree is just about dead. Gentoo no longer will have updates to it.

Edited May 17, 2004 by ac_dispatcher

[SoulSe]

Live and learn... thanks again!