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Current FF3 unmask list

Added this to [/etc/portage/package.keywords] on [mediacenter], to get FF3:

# === Unmask Firefox 3 ===
# MDM This list keeps getting longer...
www-client/mozilla-firefox
dev-libs/nspr
dev-libs/nss
net-libs/xulrunner
www-client/epiphany
dev-util/intltool
gnome-extra/yelp
dev-libs/glib
x11-libs/gtk+
media-libs/libcanberra
gnome-base/gail
# ======= end FF3 =======

You also need [xulrunner] USE flag in [/etc/make.conf].
[desktop] required an [emerge –unmerge gail].
All desktops are using FF 3.0.4 at this time.

Comments | Tuesday, November 11, 2008

[dune] media center rising from the ashes…

Setting up gentoo/ubuntu/vista booting on [dune]. Ubuntu is easier to use than a toaster, just boot up the live cd. gentoo stage 3 installs are great if you’ve been through them before and know what you need to do. Vista is of course the most trouble. After several attempts, it turns out that vista must be on a PRIMARY partition. My gparted live cd is my best friend right now.

Comments | Friday, November 7, 2008

Handle nasty [e2fsprogs] block with care…

…or you’ll end up killing wget, and be up the creek without a paddle…

emerge -f e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-libs
emerge -C com_err ss
emerge -C e2fsprogs
emerge e2fsprogs

This is supposedly fixed already in newer versions of portage.

Comments | Thursday, November 6, 2008

new front ends for mplayer

Warning from mplayer emerge:

You've enabled the 'gtk' use flag which will build
GMPlayer, which is no longer actively developed upstream
and is not supported by Gentoo.  There are alternatives
for a GUI frontend: smplayer, gnome-mplayer and kmplayer.

Note from x264 emerge:

Please note that this package now only installs
x264 libraries. In order to have the encoder,
please emerge media-video/x264-encoder.

Updated [package.use]:

# MDM gtk is deprecated as a front end, kill it...
# "Use smplayer, gnome-mplayer and kmplayer instead".
# smplayer needs [srt].
media-video/mplayer -gtk srt

Updated [package.keywords]:

# MDM Un-soft-mask VLC (and dependencies)
media-video/vlc
media-plugins/live
media-video/ffmpeg
media-libs/x264
media-libs/x264-encoder

Emerged:

emerge -Davu smplayer gnome-mplayer kmplayer

[x264-encoder] wasn’t ready to emerge, mplayer wants a different version than vlc. Holding off for now…

Comments | Wednesday, October 22, 2008

tdm3 reborn as dune

tdm3 hardware died
ordered new amd phenom quad-core chip, hdmi-output miniATX mobo, 4GB RAM
renaming tdm3 (lame) to dune
using gentoo live cd stage 3 install over tdm3 drive
stage 3 installed – bad drive!
non-destructive read-write test: fsck -t ext3 -c -c /dev/sda2
shopping for eSata RAID 1 solutions…