From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HilTh-0001cf-2i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 06:04:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4162oZI001669; Tue, 1 May 2007 06:02:50 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l415vaW2025313 for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 05:57:37 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B58B64B03 for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 05:57:36 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 1.411 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.411 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.382, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE=0.479, NO_REAL_NAME=0.55] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id AoWE108AlOfV for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 05:57:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [63.240.77.81]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB0C064699 for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 05:57:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nebo (c-71-229-102-17.hsd1.fl.comcast.net[71.229.102.17]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with SMTP id <2007050105573301100ff1gqe>; Tue, 1 May 2007 05:57:33 +0000 From: To: Subject: [gentoo-user] new gentoo user - D420 Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 01:57:31 -0400 Message-ID: <01a001c78bb5$9bea8d50$1166e547@nebo> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AceLtZtxfGg859bOSrOptL1yR6K20w== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-Archives-Salt: 4e026ac4-c981-4e7b-b73c-280f82714507 X-Archives-Hash: 435e7e67e95b02794cd75d23005fd95a Hi, all... I have a Dell Latitude D420. I used the minimal CD to install gentoo on this machine, and to date, have The OS running, along with X server emerged. The video (according to lspci) says it is Intel 945GM. I have found some articles detailing how this doesn't work with gentoo, but would like to know if anyone has some insight on getting it to work. I found an article which said that using the I810 driver worked (to an extent), but I also found others which said that it doesn't. I'd really like to get an X workstation (with gnome or kde at this point) Working - at least minimally - on it. I can get X to start with twm using vga, but the terminal text is unreadable (looks like garbage both for prompt and for text typed). Can anyone give me some direction? Thank you for the reply. I appreciate the help. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list