Hello, Thanks for your reply. Googling the gentoo docs and looking in /etc/make.conf and /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf-example i've come up with the following variables. Will this get me the post-installation messages? Thanks. Dave.
/etc/make.conf: PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="info log warn error" PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save_summary" On 3/29/10, William Hubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dave, > > there is a much better way to capture messages from packages. Take a > look at the PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM and PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI settings in > make.conf. > > It is possible to have this information saved to a file or emailed to > you. > > Thanks, > > William > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:58:34AM -0400, David Mehler wrote: >> Hi, >> Thanks. I'll do that and report back, I don't expect it'll be a quick >> process. >> One thing how do i determine results of these updates? I know the >> packages sometimes put messages to the screen, only the last of which >> i can get at, if a package way up puts one onscreen i miss it. I've >> tried a script command to try to capture but the output is >> compilations. >> Thanks. >> Dave. >> >> >> On 3/29/10, James Homuth <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Try adding the accessibility use flag, then emerge --update --deep >> > --newuse >> > world. >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: David Mehler [mailto:[email protected]] >> > Sent: March 29, 2010 10:25 AM >> > To: [email protected] >> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on gentoo >> > >> > Hello, >> > Thanks for your reply. Here are my USE flags. >> > >> > USE="acpi alsa dbus hal X gtk gnome -kde -ipv6 -qt -qt3 -qt4 -arts >> > sockets >> > threads perl consolekit cairo java nsplugin jce" >> > >> > My complete /etc/make.conf file is below. >> > Thanks. >> > Dave. >> > >> > /etc/make.conf: >> > # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that >> > automatically # >> > built this stage. >> > # Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a more >> > # >> > detailed example. >> > # VMware emulates an Intel Core 2 Duo >> > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" >> > CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" >> > # WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should be done >> > lightly. >> > # Please consult http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml before >> > changing. >> > CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" >> > >> > MAKEOPTS="-j2" >> > >> > ALSA_CARDS="ens1371" >> > >> > VIDEO_CARDS="vmware vesa vga" >> > >> > INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse vmmouse" >> > >> > LINGUAS="en en_US" >> > >> > USE="acpi alsa dbus hal X gtk gnome -kde -ipv6 -qt -qt3 -qt4 -arts >> > sockets >> > threads perl consolekit cairo java nsplugin jce" >> > >> > >> > On 3/29/10, James Homuth <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> What are your use flags? You're probably missing someething. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: David Mehler [mailto:[email protected]] >> >> Sent: March 28, 2010 10:52 AM >> >> To: [email protected] >> >> Subject: [gentoo-accessibility] setting up orca on gnome on gentoo >> >> >> >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to get orca going on gentoo. The gnome version used is >> >> 2.26. I've tried googling and asking on the orca mailing list, without >> > success. >> >> I installed gentoo following the handbook except used a serial >> >> terminal, this is in a virtual machine as i unfortunately only have >> >> one machine. Later i proceeded to install gnome, which failed. Before >> >> the install would complete successfully libxml2 needed to be >> >> installed. I next installed orca and started up gnome. I had to make >> >> some changes to custom.conf so i could log in and loaded the >> >> accessibility modules per instructions on the orca site. When i tried >> >> to start orca via either the alt+f2, orca or in a terminal with orca >> >> --text-setup i get to the second screen where i'm prompted for the >> >> speech server always i choose gnome speech and then i hear no more >> >> speech. I've also installed the java-access-bridge, but am assuming >> > there's a configuration step i'm missing. >> >> Any suggestions appreciated. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Dave. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >
