Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0 upgrade question

2006-07-21 Thread Ryan Tandy
Mark Knecht wrote: However, isn't that only part of the required file set? There are patches and other things generally needed to allow an ebuild actually install correctly. Where do I get those? Just direct ${BROWSER} to sources.gentoo.org, and look in the gentoo-x86 repository. Anything tha

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0 upgrade question

2006-07-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/19/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to apologize for sending without thinking there. I'm not particularly good with names, and didn't at all connect you with the same MythTV user who's been posting all along. I realise how frustrating that probably is for you. That said,

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0 upgrade question

2006-07-19 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mark Knecht wrote: > I wanted to know if I leave the kernel and ati-driver package alone > but upgrade to xorg-x11-7.0 will it work? Does xorg-x11-7+ force any > specific kernel requirement? With X.Org 7.0, you will need to install an ati-drivers package that supports modular X. I did a quick gr

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0 upgrade question

2006-07-19 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: > maintaining all the old revs but I DESPERATELY wish they would create > an graveyard for old ebuilds that folks in my situation could download Oh, but there does exist such a place. ALL of the MythTV ebuilds for example: http://ww

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0 upgrade question

2006-07-19 Thread Ryan Tandy
I'd like to apologize for sending without thinking there. I'm not particularly good with names, and didn't at all connect you with the same MythTV user who's been posting all along. I realise how frustrating that probably is for you. That said, let's see if I can help: Mark Knecht wrote: 3

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0 upgrade question

2006-07-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/19/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: > I am having trouble updating these machines since > neither the kernel or the ati-drivers ebuilds are available in portage > any more and, unfortunately, nothing that is in portage seems to boot > and work correctly. If they

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0 upgrade question

2006-07-19 Thread Ryan Tandy
Mark Knecht wrote: I am having trouble updating these machines since neither the kernel or the ati-drivers ebuilds are available in portage any more and, unfortunately, nothing that is in portage seems to boot and work correctly. If they work for you and there's no security issues, then why upg

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0 upgrade question

2006-07-19 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I have some MythTV frontend machines that have been happily running for about 15 months using what is now a pretty old kernel and ati-drivers package. I am having trouble updating these machines since neither the kernel or the ati-drivers ebuilds are available in portage any more and, unfort