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post #81 of 168
2/1/06 at 12:48am
There is an FAQ about this somewhere. You have to do a Stage 1-via-3 now. It sucks, I know, but its not up to us.
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post #82 of 168
2/1/06 at 1:07am
Ouch that is one way to make things needlessly complex.

Oh well BT Ill join you in your thread, My status is as follows... Currently wiping off old drive Having problems with things that shouldnt be busy being busy for some odd reason. Ah well.

Ill post up some screenshots when I am done, or close to it. I am actually digging out a book of hacks I have from a little bit ago and going thorugh a couple of those this time through, then making a base image of my system when all is said and done I think. Might try enlightenment again after i make the image. Trying to stay as much in the stable branch of portage this time through as I can though.

Seablade
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post #83 of 168
2/1/06 at 2:55am
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seablade, how did you emerge jack? Apparently the version i'm using isn't exactly compatible with the connection kit. It's doesn't understand the -dalsa option. I also have to execute jack as 'jack', not 'jackd'.

Happy to hear you're gonna jump in with your gentoo install experience. I've still got about 10,000 questions, but i'm being good and figuring most of them out on my own.

EDIT: Argh, I'm looking at a jack howto right now. Apparently I need to compile my programs and alsa to support jack and it appears I didn't get the best jack package either.
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post #84 of 168
2/1/06 at 3:19am
Yea something is definitly a little screwy there with the package you got.

jack is one of the use flags I actually put in make.conf myself as I use it a LOT. It is in there along with Alsa.

And dang I forgot installing grub onto the MBR is going to be a pain on this machine.

Seablade
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post #85 of 168
2/1/06 at 7:44pm
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I just confirmed my alsa is working 100%. Got xmms up and running.

What card are you using? Do you know what kernel module it uses?

lol, i got ir running by increasing the volume...

i had it compiled into the kernel and i did not realize that alsaconf was not needed, so since it was giving me errors i just assumed it was dead.

my wifi isnt working anymore though.. *sigh*
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post #86 of 168
2/2/06 at 9:31am
Well at least ONE thing went right in my life recently

E17 is now back up and running on my desktop complete with the e_utils package that I was missing from before so that I can do a bit more with the usefulness of it all.

Hows your stuff goin BT?

Seablade
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post #87 of 168
2/2/06 at 10:36am
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Originally Posted by seablade
Hows your stuff goin BT?

Seablade
Really well so far... I've been messing with audio stuff only lately. I got the correct package of jack running and I got the audio connection kit working. I had to recompile a bunch of apps to support jack, and now they seem to work with it. Xmms can run through jack no problems now.

I also was able to lower my latency in ardour to just under 3ms with <5% cpu load. I can't record anything yet because all of my inputs are set for my us-122. So I'm excited that I should get some really low latency recordings out of the us-122 device if I can get 3ms out of my onboard audio.

How stable is E17? The builds I used in ubuntu were pretty much useless. I'd love to use that as my primary window manager.
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post #88 of 168
2/2/06 at 2:31pm
Hmm well, when it compiles, its great

I really need to get a snapshot of my desktop, it look amazing right now. Once i finishb setting things up Ill love it, a simple animated background(Running the Carbon theme off get-e.org if you wanna see it) and overall I love it, much ahppier with it than I am with gnome.

The catch is getting it to compile, there is a wiki on it on the gentoo wiki, do a google search for gentoo e17 and youll probably find it, its how I find it every time.

I am actually in the same boat now, working entierly on getting my audio back up, everything installed, had to manually tweak the modprobe files for my setup as for some reason alsa-conf doesnt want to work for me(I can remember 1 instance of it ever working). I need to test alsa though as for some reason I cant connect jack to it yet, once I figure that out(Hopefully tonight when I get home) I will be making a blasted image of my setup to store away cause it is going to be freakin sweet Gotta get ivman working also first

Seablade

Who really doesnt have the free time he is spending on this.
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post #89 of 168
2/2/06 at 2:32pm
By the way I will say if I had had a good solid day to get this up, it would have been up and running within a day, fastest I have ever gotten a full working X setup going from scratch on gentoo.

Seablade
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post #90 of 168
2/2/06 at 6:51pm
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Well, I got E17 up and running!!! Finally got all of the modules loaded. Most of this stuff I haven't seen before. I'm gonna have fun with this.
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post #91 of 168
2/2/06 at 7:36pm
Heh have fun, I gotta find entice and try that out.

Seablade
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post #92 of 168
2/2/06 at 9:01pm
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E17 is a little too unstable for me. What file manager do you guys use for it? I try using nautilus, but it loads the whole gnome desktop which is annoying.

Also, do you guy have any idea why I'm having difficulties saving settings on exit in gnome? For instance, my audio mixer settings never seem to stick after a reboot. Also, if I turn on aa in my nvidia 3d drivers it also never sticks. I know gnome can save settings on exit, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
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post #93 of 168
2/3/06 at 12:17am
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I figured out why the audio mixers would never save my settings. I never added the alsasound initscript to the default runlevel.
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post #94 of 168
2/3/06 at 12:59am
HehHeh once I remember how to take screenshots Ill post one up. Trying to get amarok running, along with alsa at the moment though. Alsa first, then Jack, then ardour and rezound, then amarok. Might have to do a local install of rezound though, depends on wether or not they implemented the 64bit patch for it in portage yet or not.

Seablade
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post #95 of 168
2/3/06 at 1:15am
emerge ksnapshot
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post #96 of 168
2/3/06 at 2:20am
Hmm BT I missed your post completly somehow

Yea I was gonna say check your alsa bootup.

Strange though I havent been able to crash e17 once thus far. Guess we got different CVS snapshots, or did you not use the CVS for everything?

And uh.. Drizek, who was that post for?

Seablade
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post #97 of 168
2/3/06 at 2:21am
Oh yea for filemanagers, currently in e17 I am using EFM, but I would like to get my hands on entice though as that seems to have a strong following for use with E.

Now back to trying to get amarok working... yet again. Would be great to eventually hear something outta this program

Seablade
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post #98 of 168
2/3/06 at 4:03pm
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I just emerged amaroK. Seems to be working perfectly, thank god. It's even working with mysql, something i always had issues with in ubuntu.
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post #99 of 168
2/3/06 at 5:04pm
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Originally Posted by seablade
Oh yea for filemanagers, currently in e17 I am using EFM, but I would like to get my hands on entice though as that seems to have a strong following for use with E.

Now back to trying to get amarok working... yet again. Would be great to eventually hear something outta this program

Seablade
How do you emerge/launch EFM? Can't find any info on it. Entice appears to just be an image viewer. I'm running it and don't see any file managing capabilities.
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post #100 of 168
2/3/06 at 11:23pm
Sleep... good...

I meant evidence sorry about that.

Hmm I have a feeling EFM is in the e_utils package, but I am not sure, did you follow the gentoo e17 guide for setting it up or something else? The only reason I suspect e_utils is that is the package I had so many problems with before and the reason I originally switched to the CVS version as opposed to the somewhat questionable snapshots. At that time I didnt have EFM and neither could I get the rest of the e_utils package either, so now eap editor or anything. Looked great, but I couldnt do anything but accept the defaults for the most part.

And dang you for getting amarok working right, mind posting up your use flags for it, xine, and gstreamer?

Seablade
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