On 06/10/2009 06:05 AM, John P. Burkett wrote:
Thank you, Duncan. I share your preference for open source programs.
I'm not sure how the ati-drivers got on my machine or what they were
doing. If my system functions without them, I'm happy to be rid of them.
You should know if you're using them of not :P Type
lsmod | grep fglrx
while X is running. If you get nothing, you can safely uninstall
ati-drivers ("fglrx" is the kernel module of ati-drivers.)
So linux appears to be symbolic link to linux-2.6.22-gentoo-r2
You should know what kernel you're using :P
eselect kernel list
I suggest you take a good look at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook
at this point.
At this point should I make another attempt at doing "emerge --emptytree
world"? Yesterday when I tried that, the response started with
914 packages are being emerged!
That's the whole point of --emptytree; to recompile every package in the
system.
