From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MPD9i-0008SF-D3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:16:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75A15E0503; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:16:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f220.google.com (mail-gx0-f220.google.com [209.85.217.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4743BE0503 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:16:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk20 with SMTP id 20so3763343gxk.10 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:16:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ZGVGQyYam4W02UfymevO7uLlRkog6aaEOvW3Gk9q2fU=; b=DCFGFzBIlH1KAxUvFJTkRkVK0kRdA6b+JPizHuVL9JVAshVa7OSiFQcneVwbgoCLbx KUNCBBefae9E2jDsWgRO+XL+ovAEVFEaA4DEgs1jRlL1OBJhRY+cM1O/K0419uwy4X7g nQTtPM+sKEAhpvURnRmPZ5y8wd1Nvt1uVTx/s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=LYO50DA5OfJnX19I1Pj1qJCSSNE7sqKI6xAMP72vD7QVUFV8bxPaQKsTvraZ/8pfOq tEa2v5JxxIfIxTlYzskIvSItRkW4nX+CPouQUs/7ugqc+aPjkg+WY73MgwnGZAlVQYGt t5sXqIIJ63rPXE4iXWt0EKQLF/YwhYtFMINgI= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.117.13 with SMTP id p13mr1566879agc.26.1247220996830; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:16:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090710011319.36adfd7b@dartworks.biz> References: <9acccfe50907081015s41d3c4dan369291296e2ee8e5@mail.gmail.com> <200907081928.18897.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> <9acccfe50907090805w47390674jcb0803d8c5f1c32@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0907090836m44daaa5cia6a54d4f3ccc386d@mail.gmail.com> <20090709170320.1ddaab92@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <20090710011319.36adfd7b@dartworks.biz> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:16:35 -0700 Message-ID: <9acccfe50907100316o28497fb8h72b1ad0449cf8826@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg won't start From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d344e527-5cac-477c-bca2-cc4626bcac4c X-Archives-Hash: fe84033b30d26b98115b43834e292b9a On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Keith Dart wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 17:03:20 +0100 > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> The elog message from the xorg-server emerge also warns about updating >> drivers. > > Users should probably make sure there is at least the following > in /etc/make.conf: > > PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="echo save_summary" > > So you get a permanent record and a change to view them at the end of a > ebuild set. I've been running with this for years: PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="info, warn, error, log" PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save mail" FEATURES="buildpkg parallel-fetch" And I had been thinking that the "buildpkg" was going to make reversion a lot easier, except that I've never actually installed one of these puppies. Mind, I only tried once. I've got about 4 GB of packages at the moment. :o) ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD