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President Gas
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 Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 10:44 am Post subject: New Gentoo User |
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Hi
Just got my first Gentoo install up and running so thought I would say hello.
It's pretty basic atm, as I've only done the standard Gentoo install and emerged X and Gnome but so far I am loving it 
I have a few small problems but nothing major.
First is that the boot splashscreen doesn't work. I've got the correct options in grub.conf but I think I may have stuffed up the framebuffer support in the kernel. Will have to look at that.
The only other problem is I can't seem to emerge apps considered to be non-stable from portage. For example, emerge search evolution shows 1.4.6 even though I know that 1.5.x is available. Not sure how to get round that.
But apart from that, I think it's really great. Emerge rocks! My system is also very fast (admitedly cos there's not much on there at the moment).
I'm running the 2.4.26 kernel atm but am looking to have a bash at installing a 2.6 kernel.
Anyway, just wanted to say Top Job! to the gentoo guys and hopefully I can find out lots of other good stuff here.
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Vulpes_Vulpes
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President Gas
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 11:46 am Post subject: |
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That's great.
Thanks a lot! |
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jayk
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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Hello,
Welcome to this great comunity. I joined Gentoo forums in June and I've received help for all of my posts.
Indeed Gentoo rocks, my computer is very fast now and I love the idea of having total control .
You'll also find many great Howto's on this forum.
JayK.
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Horgrathi
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | The only other problem is I can't seem to emerge apps considered to be non-stable from portage. For example, emerge search evolution shows 1.4.6 even though I know that 1.5.x is available. Not sure how to get round that. |
You can try doing "emerge rsync", mabey it would show up then, dont really know ... I am new too  ... I just know about rsync for games, so I can see if new versions are out...
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President Gas
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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Have a read of the link that Vulpes_Vulpes posted.
It has to do with masked packages. So I'm ok with that now.
I'm pretty sure I missed the framebuffer support in the kernel config so I'll recompile and see what happens. |
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d0nju4n
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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Welcome to gentoo
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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For doing masked ebuilds you just use:
| Code: | | ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~arch" emerge foo |
Where you replace arch with your architecture such as x86, ppc, sparc, and etc. Also, don't forget to replace foo with the actual name of the package you want. 
As for bootsplash, there's a great tutorial on it here. Also, I recommend trying out the love sources as it is a great kernel patchset. |
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Titeuf
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| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Pwnz3r wrote: | For doing masked ebuilds you just use:
| Code: | | ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~arch" emerge foo |
Where you replace arch with your architecture such as x86, ppc, sparc, and etc. Also, don't forget to replace foo with the actual name of the package you want.
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It's better to add to /etc/portage/package.keywords instead of using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS.
I just don't remember why |
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