[gentoo-ppc-dev] successfully emerged masked ppc ebuilds

[gentoo-ppc-dev] successfully emerged masked ppc ebuilds

[Marc Ozon]

Hi,

Further to the request on the Gentoo forums (in the thread at
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=11654), I'm glad to report
several ebuilds that have worked fine for me with Gentoo on my iBook.

The working builds are:

  media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10-r2.ebuild
  net-misc/x11-ssh-askpass/x11-ssh-askpass-1.2.2-r1.ebuild
  net-www/mozilla-firebird/mozilla-firebird-0.6-r6.ebuild
  x11-misc/xtoolwait/xtoolwait-1.3.ebuild
  x11-plugins/wmtz/wmtz-0.7.ebuild
  x11-plugins/wmweather/wmweather-2.4.0.ebuild

The first three have ~ppc in the keywords, the last three don't have ppc
at all in the keywords.  All six ebuilds have yielded programs that work
exactly as expected (and exactly as they do on another Gentoo
installation of mine, on an x86 machine).

If it matters, I installed from the 1.4_rc7 live CD a few weeks ago, on
a new 800 MHz iBook, now dual-booting with OS X 10.2.6.  I'm using the
'benh' kernel sources, having had initial problems with sleep and with
getting mol to run with the plain 'ppc-sources'.  And, I'm happy to
report that everything works -- pmud, X, airport card, sound (with
alsa), mol, etc.  The only thing that needed any kind of workaround was
sound -- volume with alsa was extremely low, but I received a suggestion
in one of the forums to load and unload the dmasound_pmac module before
loading the alsa modules, and that's solved the problem completely.

Many thanks for all the great work by the Gentoo developers!

Cheers,
Marc

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Marc Ozon      Toronto, Ontario, Canada


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