Knocked out my mythtv box with a hasty half-finished emerge, making the whole family disappointed in the loss of movies and TV. Here’s how to stage an upgrade properly.
First off, know your gear. I am using the following:
MSI K8NGM2-FID
NForce 430 chipset
GeForce 6150 onboard graphics
8 channel HD audio codec RealTek ALC880 (INTEL)
AMD64 gentoo-sources kernel
Let’s continue with some emerging…
emerge -avu portage
emerge -avu system
etc-update
If that included a kernel update (which it probably did), you will want to recompile the kernel source code that was downloaded. The kernel is not compiled automatically since you need to configure it for your system.
Compiling the kernel requires a little work. Namely, for this system, I need to emerge the kernel source, configure the kernel, install the kernel, update the nvidia binary driver, update alsa (if needed), and update ivtv to match the kernel version (if needed). See the wiki for details.
Then it’s on to updating the rest of the system:
etc-update
