Gentoo Question

[Matthew Carpenter]

Sorry for the delay.  Been offlist mainly.  Been busy ruining my new 
(read 'ainchent") Zaurus PDA.  It's SLICK!  I'm liking it quite a bit. 
 More on that and how I ruined it later.
See below.

Collins wrote:

>On Tue, 04 May 2004 22:26:43 -0400
>Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:
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>>See below.  Thanks in advance for your help and patience.
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>Always happy to help. I've been on the receiving end too many times, and I'm sure that's not past history <g>.
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>>>OK, what model laptop do you have? I've read that 2.6 kernels do a better job with laptops,
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>>Dell Lattitude C640.  It runs SuSE 9.0 exceptionally, however, I was 
>>running on my Inspiron 1100 and decided to use 2.6 and ended up with no 
>>keyboard available :(  This time I thought I'd give Gentoo a running 
>>chance at stock software versions.
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>Explain 'no keyboard available'. Maybe you missed a few kernel config parameters?
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Could have been.  Didn't have the time to figure it out.  No Keyboard 
Available means that it boots to the login prompt (RL3 of course) and I 
can't type anything and have it do anything.

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>>My biggest one at the moment is it stopping at win32codecs complaining 
>>about the digest being different.  For now, I "inject"ed win32codecs and 
>>the rest of the packages are installing as we speak.
>>I am noew however getting complaints when I try to run X -configure and 
>>startx no longer works...
>>Complaints are about modules (from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/):
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>>>>with a package not being available   And I've had issues with 
>>>>"coreutils" being found as well.  
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>The miscellaneous problems you are reporting would seem to be prima facia evidence that you have "screwed the pooch," if you'll pardon my French. See my other post recommending starting over from a Stage2 install, create and enable /var/log/portage (/etc/make.conf), and keep a good handwritten log of each action you take.
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>Sorry I haven't been prompt about responding laely, but I've been busy preparing for a new job.
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>Best of luck,
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Hope the job goes well!  I'll pardon your french poochie.. :)