[gentoo-dev] Install report, bugs, questions & suggestions

[Sylvain OBEGI <katios@nolabel.net>]

Hello
I posted this in gentoo-user, but got no answer, so i repost it here if it can be useful.. Tell me if i should have not.
Thanks in advance
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Hello 
I installed gentoo linux a few days ago, i don't know if it's the right
list to post this report, but we'll see. ;) 


The install runned fine. 
For Information, I'm using a Asus A7V266-E mainboard (KT266A chipset)
with fr keyboard. 

Here's what I noted :

KDM 
kdm shows users like root, www & co, but not the normal user. I guess
there is an inversion somewhere 

XSANE 
latest xsane is 0.84. latest in gentoo is 0.77, quite old. Is there a
particular reason for keeping an old version? 

BASESYSTEM 
basesystem wants me to install isapnptools, but i haven't used a isa
cards for year! i don't even have an isa slot! i think hotplug would be
a much better thing to have in core system than isapnptools.. how to
tell emerge i don't want it with update (without having to do it at each
emerge rsync) ? 

GKRELLMMS 
emerge gkrellmms fails with this message : 
"Calculating dependencies ...done! 
>>> emerge x11-misc/gkrellmms-0.5.5 to / 
>>> md5 ;-) gkrellmms-0.5.5.tar.gz 
>>> Unpacking source... 
>>> Unpacking gkrellmms-0.5.5.tar.gz 
>>> Source unpacked. 
gcc -march=i686 -O3 -pipe -O2 -Wall -fPIC `gtk-config --cflags`
`imlib-config --cflags-gdk` `xmms-config --cflags` -march=i686 -O3
-pipe   -c -o gkrellmms.o gkrellmms.c 
gkrellmms.c: In function `create_gkrellmms': 
gkrellmms.c:694: structure has no member named `top_margin' 
gkrellmms.c:696: structure has no member named `bottom_margin' 
make: *** [gkrellmms.o] Error 1 

!!! ERROR: the make command did not complete successfully. 
!!! ("make") 
!!! Since this is a critical task, ebuild will be stopped. 

!!! emerge aborting on 
/usr/portage/x11-misc/gkrellmms/gkrellmms-0.5.5.ebuild . 
" 

EURO SIGN 
Can't have it in kde (even with iso8859-15 character set selected), and
don't have it everywhere in gnome apps. For example in evolution, i have
it in to, cc, and subject fields, but not in the message window. I guess
i'm missing something somewhere.. but.. where? :) 

LANGUAGE 
Is there any way to have non-english language in other apps than kde
itself? 

REALPLAYER 
There are some realplayer 9 (aka RealOne) beta floating around real.com
site, and it works well. 

EBUILDS 
How do we find the list (and description?) of packages that can be
installed? I'm talking of something equivalent to rpmdrake for example 

RPM 
rpm is present so i guess it's supported.. but why using rpm 3.0.6 as
4.0.3 is the latest version? 

ALSA & OSS EMULATION 
I have a SB Live! card (emu10k1) and alsa. When using oss application i
have noise at the start of the play, for about one second, then it plays
fine.. But it's really annoying since i have that at each song change in
xmms. I tried aalsa plugin, but the sound is strange (stretched or
something..) So if anyone has an idea.. (my on-board sound chips are
disabled in the bios) 

EVOLUTION & SPELLCHECKING 
I guess i need aspell (or other?) and aspell-fr for spellchecking in
french, but there's only de.. 

OLD-GTK-THEMES 
emerge old-gtk-themes gives : 
"Calculating dependencies ...done! 
>>> emerge x11-libs/old-gtk-themes-1.0 to / 
>>> Unpacking source... 
--15:07:09--  ftp://ftp3.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/themes.org/gtk/
           => `/dev/null' 
Resolving ftp3.sourceforge.net... done. 
Connecting to ftp3.sourceforge.net[152.2.210.121]:21... connected. 
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! 
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done. 
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /pub/mirrors/themes.org/gtk ... 
No such directory `pub/mirrors/themes.org/gtk'. 


!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully. 
!!! Function src_unpack, Line 6, Exitcode 1 
!!! wget failed 

!!! emerge aborting on 
/usr/portage/x11-libs/old-gtk-themes/old-gtk-themes-1.0.ebuild . 
" 
Is there any other package that gives themes for gnome apps? 


OF : DIVX 
Divx 5.0 is out, do someone has info of support for it in linux apps? 


Thanks in advance for your help 

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Sylvain OBEGI 
Email : katios@nolabel.net
ICQ : 661913