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afinley at gis

Dec 1, 2004, 7:32 AM

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R5000 o2 X11 and kde?

Hi Steve,
I went back through and double checked everything, rebooted, and
resetenv, and presto, arcboot booted properly. Now we're cooking!

Then tried to emerge X-org, which compiled fine but could not build a
config file. I looked for some documentation on the gentoo mips site
but didn't see much (and elsewhere). Is it possible to get X and
eventually kde running? Thanks again for your help.

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 17:34, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
> Andrew Finley wrote:
> > Your Good Steve,
> > I did forget to mount boot the last time. And got it to boot, part
> > way. I got a "kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing
> > init= option to the kernel"
> >
> > Sorry to keep bugging you, but I'm not sure where to find help (google
> > only works so far) :-)
> >
> > andy
>
> Well, that's interesting. It seems that both the kernel looks at
> OSLoadPartition from the prom when being loaded via arcboot. Arcboot
> uses OSLoadPartition to determine where the kernel and arcboot.conf are
> stored, and it uses the SGI naming scheme to do so (eg the
> pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(X) bit). The kernel uses
> OSLoadPartition to determine the root device, and apparently the
> append="root=/dev/sda3" from arcboot.conf isn't getting passed, or is
> being overridden. Try changing OSLoadPartition to /dev/sda3 from the
> prom. Arcboot will spit an error that you should change it to something
> else, but then will scan the other partitions for /etc/arcboot.conf and
> should auto-detect what partition it really needs and then boot normally.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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ian at toucan

Dec 1, 2004, 7:49 AM

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Re: R5000 o2 X11 and kde? [In reply to]

> Then tried to emerge X-org, which compiled fine but could not build a
> config file. I looked for some documentation on the gentoo mips site
> but didn't see much (and elsewhere). Is it possible to get X and
> eventually kde running? Thanks again for your help.

I've got x.org running on my o2. I used geomans config that you can find
here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~geoman/xorg.conf

Make sure that you compiled x.org with the static-useflag enabled.
Otherwise it's likely that you'll get a bunch of unresolved symbols.

Have fun!

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geoman at gentoo

Dec 1, 2004, 7:57 AM

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Re: R5000 o2 X11 and kde? [In reply to]

Andrew Finley wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> I went back through and double checked everything, rebooted, and
> resetenv, and presto, arcboot booted properly. Now we're cooking!
>
> Then tried to emerge X-org, which compiled fine but could not build a
> config file. I looked for some documentation on the gentoo mips site
> but didn't see much (and elsewhere). Is it possible to get X and
> eventually kde running? Thanks again for your help.
>
>

See Ian's message about the config file and building X with the static
USE flag. As for kde, it should work just fine, although it may take
two to three days to build it all.

Steve

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afinley at gis

Dec 2, 2004, 1:56 PM

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Re: R5000 o2 X11 and kde [In reply to]

Hi Guys,
Thanks for the help, X build just fine and gdm looks o-so-nice. I tried
to emerge kde, but got the (masked by: ~mips keyword).

How do I get around this?

Should I get around this?

Do I need to put something in my /etc/portage/package.unmask?

With with all my questions, you made a mini-howto for dummies:-)

-andy

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 08:57, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
> Andrew Finley wrote:
> > Hi Steve,
> > I went back through and double checked everything, rebooted, and
> > resetenv, and presto, arcboot booted properly. Now we're cooking!
> >
> > Then tried to emerge X-org, which compiled fine but could not build a
> > config file. I looked for some documentation on the gentoo mips site
> > but didn't see much (and elsewhere). Is it possible to get X and
> > eventually kde running? Thanks again for your help.
> >
> >
>
> See Ian's message about the config file and building X with the static
> USE flag. As for kde, it should work just fine, although it may take
> two to three days to build it all.
>
> Steve
>
>
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>
>

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geoman at gentoo

Dec 2, 2004, 3:43 PM

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Re: R5000 o2 X11 and kde [In reply to]

Andrew Finley wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> Thanks for the help, X build just fine and gdm looks o-so-nice. I tried
> to emerge kde, but got the (masked by: ~mips keyword).
>
> How do I get around this?
>
> Should I get around this?
>
> Do I need to put something in my /etc/portage/package.unmask?
>
> With with all my questions, you made a mini-howto for dummies:-)
>
> -andy

Read "man portage" and all will be revealed.

Steve

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