Research on how to create a local overlay on the gentoo site. Will attempt when I get home. Thanks
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Konstantin Tokarev <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 16.04.2015, 20:10, "Herminio Hernandez, Jr." < > [email protected]>: > > There is common issue with the r300 driver in Mesa and Radeon cards on > G4 Macs. When you have KMS enabled and to see if useing opengl you get this. > > > > rican-linux@ibookG4-gentoo ~ $ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo |grep render > > libGL: screen 0 does not appear to be DRI3 capable > > libGL: pci id for fd 4: 1002:4e56, driver r300 > > libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/tls/r300_dri.so > > libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so > > libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found > > libGL error: failed to load driver: r300 > > libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/tls/swrast_dri.so > > libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so > > libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found > > libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast > > Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig > > > > There are two ways to resolve this > > > > 1. set you default display to 16 in xorg.conf, but on PowerBook you > really see the drop in depth bot so much in iBooks. > > > > 2. apply a patch found here > > > > I would much rather do option 2 and test that, however I am having some > difficulty learning how to apply patches and reinstall in gentoo. In debian > or ubuntu i would apt-get source the package, apply the patch, then > recompile and reinstall. Can someone point me to resource that can help. I > really cannot find it in the gentoo wiki, but I admit it may be I am not > search for the correct thing. Thanks! > > You create local overlay, copy ebuilds you want to change from main > portage tree to you overlay, modify ebuild (e.g. add patch), then execute > `ebuild filename.ebuild digest`. After that you emerge the same package > name as before and it gets installed from your overlay. > > -- > Regards, > Konstantin >
