Juergen Starek wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I recently installed Gentoo for the first time (stage 3, networkless, from
> standard CD, onto a dual P3 @ 900 Mhz). I'm left with four problems that I
> haven't been able to solve with the information I found with Google:
>
> - The AltGr-key on my keyboard (German layout, 102 keys) is not working.
> I've seen posts that point to xorg.conf and /etc/conf.d/keymaps, but I'm
> quite sure I set those variables correctly... Where else might I look?

I have had trouble with the later xorg's with this, the solution that seems to
work for me has been to add the following option to the InputDevice section
for the keyboard:

Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"



> - I have a problem understanding portage: How can I get statistical
> information from it? I'd like to get overviews on what ebuilds are
> installed, a list of those available, more verbose descriptions of
> the software etc. (something like aptitude does for Debian's package
> management system).

equery is a tool you can use for that, which you get if you emerge
app-portage/gentoolkit.


> Additionally, I'd like to alter screen output so I can see how much
> of an emerge cycle is already done -- a quick glance on a text console
> tells me what the compiler is working on, but it'd at least be nice to
> see how many ebuilds are still queued. Are there frontends that can do
> this?

Not sure about console (xterm you get that in the title), there is some hacks
to give you a progress list for compiling, those may show the amount of
ebuilds left to build. Sadly I can't recal any links, but think they where
somewhere at http://gentoo-wiki.com


> - Eclipse 3.2 depends on both Java 1.5 and 1.4, the latter seems to be
> necessary for building the ebuild only. I'd prefer to only have
> JDK 1.5 installed. If I install the binary Eclipse package from
> eclipse.org, am I likely to run into troubles?

I think eclipse depends on 1.4 when it comes to functions in eclipse itself
that uses java, so you will most likely need both installed, you can of course
unemerge 1.4 when you have emerged eclipse, if you notice things don't work,
then just re-emerge 1.4.


> - Finally: How can I tell a Linux machine to use a high resolution text
> mode (like 132x50 chars)? I cannot use a framebuffer because, according
> to various sources, this conflicts with 3D acceleration for ATI Radeon
> cards.

Select a small font for the console and set a higher vga mode than the default
in the boot option (of course you need to make the kernel to support this).

Alternatively use the frambuffer and the the opensource ATi driver.


//Aho