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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:00:49 +0100
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On Monday 25 April 2011 16:03:21 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Mick.
>=20
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:12:15PM +0100, Mick wrote:
> > On Monday 25 April 2011 13:11:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > > > Once it completes you can run --depclean which will ask you to
> > > > remove the older 2.6 python package.
> > >=20
> > > I had to (or, at least, did) run emerge -uND @world. Funnily enough,
> > > it ran to completion without manual intervention. :-) I'd like to
> > > run --depclean, but it's threatening to remove my 2.6.31-r6 kernel
> > > sources, which correspond to my working kernel. What's the easiest
> > > way to protect these from --depclean?
> >=20
> > Aha! That's why I said first look at what it wants to remove - you
> > don't want to cripple your system. In this case of course it won't
> > cripple anything, because it won't remove the kernel image from /boot/
> >=20
> > If you look in /usr/src/linux/ you will see a number of kernel sources
> > listed in there. If you've run update world there should be a more
> > up-to-date kernel awaiting for you to configure and compile it. Do
> > that first; copy the necessary files into /boot; configure grub.conf to
> > boot with you latest kernel; and after you boot into it and check that
> > all is good you can allow -- depclean to remove older kernel source
> > files.
>=20
> Yes, I've got new kernel sources, and yesterday and today I've spent
> about 5 hours head-banging to get a working kernel. (I've managed it,
> thankfully.) But the new kernel's X-windows isn't filling my 1920x1080
> shiny new monitor like the old kernel did. I've still got some fiddling
> to do.
>=20
> Call me a clinging cry-baby if you like, but until I'm confident about my
> new kernel, I'd like to hang on to the old one, including its sources.
> It'd also be nice to run --depclean in the meantime. Do I have to do
> recursive copying or directory renaming to achiev this?
>=20
> As a matter of interest, do you know how to configure a framebuffer
> console to fill up a wide screen (say, to a width of 170 characters) as
> contrasted with the 128 characters which were optimum on an old fashioned
> CRT?
I think that things have moved on since the first time you installed Gentoo=
=2E =20
Latest kernels have the ability to load firmware for your video card that=20
takes account of the native resolution of the monitor - without any additio=
nal=20
framebuffer drivers (like vesa, uvesa, radeonfb, etc.) As a matter of fact=
=20
you'll get a blank screen if you try to boot the latest kernels with KMS=20
configured using any additional framebuffer driver.
To save me describing each step, you would do better reading through this p=
age=20
which details everything you need to do:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
=2D-=20
Regards,
Mick
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