Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Emerge fails

2005-01-11 Thread James Harrison
Billy Holmes wrote: Dave Nebinger wrote: Even if they were going to be using a cutting edge sound app, I'd still suggest to them that they use the built in alsa driver to get their core components installed (i.e. gnome), then upgrade to a new alsa driver when they're ready to install that new wizba

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Emerge fails

2005-01-11 Thread Billy Holmes
Dave Nebinger wrote: Even if they were going to be using a cutting edge sound app, I'd still suggest to them that they use the built in alsa driver to get their core components installed (i.e. gnome), then upgrade to a new alsa driver when they're ready to install that new wizbang sound app. a perf

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Emerge fails

2005-01-11 Thread James Harrison
Dave Nebinger wrote: James do you have alsa in your USE flags? To be completely honest, I have no idea what alsa is ^_^ except the basics that is, but i'm gonna try manually emerging it, and if that fails i'll try some of the other workarounds suggested. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Y

RE: [gentoo-user] Gnome Emerge fails

2005-01-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
James do you have alsa in your USE flags? > To be completely honest, I have no idea what alsa is ^_^ except the > basics that is, but i'm gonna try manually emerging it, and if that > fails i'll try some of the other workarounds suggested. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Emerge fails

2005-01-11 Thread Joel Merrick
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 17:07 +, James Harrison wrote: > Dave Nebinger wrote: > > > Neither party said that they were trying to emerge gnome so they could use a > > bleeding edge sound application, they just indicated that gnome was failing, > > the failure was due to a lack of alsa-driver, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Emerge fails

2005-01-11 Thread James Harrison
Dave Nebinger wrote: Neither party said that they were trying to emerge gnome so they could use a bleeding edge sound application, they just indicated that gnome was failing, the failure was due to a lack of alsa-driver, and they could not figure out how to resolve the problem. Even if they were go

RE: [gentoo-user] Gnome Emerge fails

2005-01-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
> To believe that the box you hold with square holes is sufficient to > satisfy all other people's shapes spherical and elliptical is just not > what Gentoo is about. Nor do I believe that no one should use alsa drivers outside of the kernel; obviously there is full support for using a bleeding ed

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Emerge fails

2005-01-11 Thread Billy Holmes
Dave Nebinger wrote: That plus the fact that the built-in version tends to be well tested before it is accepted into the kernel source tree... Audio enthusiasts need a bleeding edge alsa than the relatively old one that's approved into the kernel. Just because "good enough" is OK for you, doesn't

RE: [gentoo-user] Gnome Emerge fails

2005-01-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I've been battling this problem for a month now. The only alternative I > found to go into /usr/portage/media-sound/alsa-driver and try installing > ebuilds from the newest one to the oldest until you find one that works. > I'm sorry, but I don't know how to find what version of alsa-driver I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Emerge fails

2005-01-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
I've been battling this problem for a month now. The only alternative I found to go into /usr/portage/media-sound/alsa-driver and try installing ebuilds from the newest one to the oldest until you find one that works. I'm sorry, but I don't know how to find what version of alsa-driver I'm using.

[gentoo-user] Gnome Emerge fails

2005-01-11 Thread James \"Morpheous\" Harrison
Hi, I'm trying to emerge gnome xscreensaver, I run that command and then it gets to a certain part and boom... Console logs as follows: make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/alsa-driver-1.0.7-r4/work/alsa-driver-1.0.7/pcmcia/pdaudiocf' copying file alsa-kernel/pcmcia/pdaudiocf/pdaudiocf.c p