[gentoo-user] xorg worked! Minor issues....Thanks, Gentoo

[gentoo-user] xorg worked! Minor issues....Thanks, Gentoo

[dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51]

It just plain worked!

Emerge even identified -only- my drivers (mouse, keyboard, etc.) before I  
scanned xorg.conf.

Minor problems:

1. The emerge stoped at one point because the uninstall failed to remove  
an obscure library (perhaps /var/lib/xkb ? sorry, I should have noted it).  
But emerge identified the directory and told me to delete it. A restart  
allowed successful completion.

2. Before starting, I renamed /etc/X11 to /etc/X11old so that any  
accumulated junk would be out of the picture, and so that the new  
xorg.conf.example file would be clean. Heh, it doesn't build a new  
xorg.conf.example file, so I copied over the old file and everything  
worked - except for the rgb file.

3. My first xmessage complained of not understanding "black". So I emerged  
rgb, edited the xorg.conf file, and repointed it.

RgbPath	"/usr/share/X11/rgb"

4. I routinely use xterm, xmessage, and xkill - all needed to be emerged.  
Problem here was that eix and eix -S didn't find them, but emerge did.

5. revdep-rebuild found the missing libXaw.so.8, but crashed during  
re-emergence (bad order, and something else that I did not understand). So  
I emerged them one at a time in a different order, and everything worked  
except for the kde office applications.

6. kde office applications depend upon kde 3.4, which I no longer have -  
and revdep pointed this out :-) . This obviously is not an xorg issue, but  
rather an emerge issue; allowing me to unemerge 3.3 and 3.4 a month ago,  
while still having a need for their libraries if I need to recompile the  
office stuff.

But I'm "guessing" that the office "libraries", available in portage, will  
fix this. But I don't care right now, as the programs (e.g. word, spread)  
work fine without recompiling. :-)

So thank you to Gentoo the Developers - another successful plan and  
instructions on your part, that worked just fine for newbies like me!


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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg worked! Minor issues....Thanks, Gentoo

[Dale]

dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51 wrote:
>
>
> It just plain worked!
>
> Emerge even identified -only- my drivers (mouse, keyboard, etc.)
> before I scanned xorg.conf.
>
> Minor problems:
>
> 1. The emerge stoped at one point because the uninstall failed to
> remove an obscure library (perhaps /var/lib/xkb ? sorry, I should have
> noted it). But emerge identified the directory and told me to delete
> it. A restart allowed successful completion.

It was /var/lib/X11/xkb.  I got the same error and I just copied it
somewhere else then deleted it.  All was well after that.  Emerge
--resume carried on.

>
> < snip >
>
> So thank you to Gentoo the Developers - another successful plan and
> instructions on your part, that worked just fine for newbies like me!
>
>
> ..
> --gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>

I was so glad to see that login screen pop up.

Dale
:-)  :-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg worked! Minor issues....Thanks, Gentoo

[Donnie Berkholz]

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dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51 wrote:
> 1. The emerge stoped at one point because the uninstall failed to remove
> an obscure library (perhaps /var/lib/xkb ? sorry, I should have noted
> it). But emerge identified the directory and told me to delete it. A
> restart allowed successful completion.

This directory was formerly under configuration protection so we have to
tell the user to delete it manually.

> 2. Before starting, I renamed /etc/X11 to /etc/X11old so that any
> accumulated junk would be out of the picture, and so that the new
> xorg.conf.example file would be clean. Heh, it doesn't build a new
> xorg.conf.example file, so I copied over the old file and everything
> worked - except for the rgb file.

Yeah, there's a bug for this -- modular X currently lacks a rule to
create it.

> 3. My first xmessage complained of not understanding "black". So I
> emerged rgb, edited the xorg.conf file, and repointed it.
> 
> RgbPath    "/usr/share/X11/rgb"

You should be able to comment out RgbPath

> 4. I routinely use xterm, xmessage, and xkill - all needed to be
> emerged. Problem here was that eix and eix -S didn't find them, but
> emerge did.

Perhaps you haven't regenerated eix's cache lately?

> 5. revdep-rebuild found the missing libXaw.so.8, but crashed during
> re-emergence (bad order, and something else that I did not understand).
> So I emerged them one at a time in a different order, and everything
> worked except for the kde office applications.

If you just want the libXaw.so.8 back, emerge libXaw with USE=xprint.

Thanks for your detailed report,
Donnie


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[gentoo-user] Re: xorg worked! Minor issues....Thanks, Gentoo

[dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51]

>> 4. I routinely use xterm, xmessage, and xkill - all needed to be
>> emerged. Problem here was that eix and eix -S didn't find them, but
>> emerge did.
>
> Perhaps you haven't regenerated eix's cache lately?

Didn't help.

Perhaps you could try?

>
>> 5. revdep-rebuild found the missing libXaw.so.8, but crashed during
>> re-emergence (bad order, and something else that I did not understand).
>> So I emerged them one at a time in a different order, and everything
>> worked except for the kde office applications.
>
> If you just want the libXaw.so.8 back, emerge libXaw with USE=xprint.

Good to know; but having recompiled the few problems, I don't need it  
anymore. :-)



> Thanks for your detailed report,
> Donnie


Thank you!

.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg worked! Minor issues....Thanks, Gentoo

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Monday 03 July 2006 01:59, dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51 wrote:
> >> 4. I routinely use xterm, xmessage, and xkill - all needed to be
> >> emerged. Problem here was that eix and eix -S didn't find them, but
> >> emerge did.
> >
> > Perhaps you haven't regenerated eix's cache lately?
>
> Didn't help.
>
> Perhaps you could try?

Not all of those packages have their names repeated in their descriptions. You 
would have more success with just eix or `eix -e` or `eix -sS` or...

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