Hi all,

I am new to gentoo. I started the install from the stage3 tarball.
Everything went fine until the step "emerge ebuilds for additional
hardware". Since the install instructions say "Matrox", I set the
environment variable VIDEO_CARDS to "Matrox". Step 9 of 9, the install
of xfree-drm-4.3.0-r6 promptly failed, and offered a selection of
cards, including "matrox" in lower case.

So I set VIDEO_CARDS to "matrox", exported that and tried to start
emerge again. It reliably fails with "don't know how to make mga.o"
and Error 2. Now I am stuck at that point.

I only tried to install xfree-drm right away because the install, so
far, was straight forward. All I want at this point is any working X,
and a consistent system. What I _do_not_ want is to start from the
beginning.

So, what can I do now?

Wolfgang

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Hi,
you do not need the xfree-drm for a usable xfree-system.
Just install at first the xfree-system and any window-system you want (kde,
gnome, ...) after that you can try the xfree-drm.

Have you already installed Xfree and does it function??

Martin

Wolfgang Rupp wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am new to gentoo. I started the install from the stage3 tarball.
> Everything went fine until the step "emerge ebuilds for additional
> hardware". Since the install instructions say "Matrox", I set the
> environment variable VIDEO_CARDS to "Matrox". Step 9 of 9, the install
> of xfree-drm-4.3.0-r6 promptly failed, and offered a selection of
> cards, including "matrox" in lower case.
>
> So I set VIDEO_CARDS to "matrox", exported that and tried to start
> emerge again. It reliably fails with "don't know how to make mga.o"
> and Error 2. Now I am stuck at that point.
>
> I only tried to install xfree-drm right away because the install, so
> far, was straight forward. All I want at this point is any working X,
> and a consistent system. What I _do_not_ want is to start from the
> beginning.
>
> So, what can I do now?
>
> Wolfgang
>

Martin Nowack <martin_nowack@web.de> wrote:
> you do not need the xfree-drm for a usable xfree-system.

Thank you. Yes, a basic X came with the stage3 tarball.

> Have you already installed Xfree and does it function??

Yes! I copied my old XF86Config from the old disk, and startx just worked.
An xterm is nothing fancy, but it's X :-)

Anyway, that brings the next question: in /usr/portage there is only one
entry for kde: "kde-base". When I try to "emerge kde-base" I get
there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy kde-base
!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.

What is it trying to tell me? Or do I try something wrong with emerge?
I am used to the BSD ports system. So I figured that "emerge app" is
similar to "cd pkgsrc/foo/app" "make && make install" in BSD.

Wolfgang

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Wolfgang Rupp <spamtrap@coredump.at> wrote:
> Anyway, that brings the next question: in /usr/portage there is only one
> entry for kde: "kde-base". When I try to "emerge kde-base" I get
> there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy kde-base
> !!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.

Ok, call me stupid. "cd kde-base, emerge kdebase" does it. It started
to fetch the tarball now. I did not realise that kde-base is a directory.

Wolfgang

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