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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install Issue
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:36:30 +0100
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On Monday 10 Oct 2011 21:06:34 CJoeB wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>=20
> I hope someone will be able to "lead me by the nose" here.
>=20
> For a number of weeks now, I have been trying to install Gentoo on my
> new desktop. I kept running into issues and due to time constraints
> when I was installing, I put off trying to resolve them.
>=20
> Today, I went through the install process, had a couple of issues, but
> was able to figure them out and got to the point where I was supposed to
> boot into my new system. I got the boot menu, the boot process seemed
> to be okay, but when I got to the point where I assumed I should get a
> command prompt to finish up, all I got was a weird screen that was half
> black and half fuzzy with a bunch of colours (sorry, I can describe this
> any better). I tried recompiling the kernel thinking it was a problem
> that I had created during the initial compilation, but that ended with
> the same result.
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> The computer is a Dell XPS 8300
> It has a Radeon graphics card, but I wouldn't think this would be an
> issue until I tried to install X.
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> Does anyone have any ideas?
As others have already suggested most likely the problem is something to do=
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with the way you have set up KMS for radeon and the way you have configured=
the=20
firmware.
Read this page (with special attention of the framebuffer part) and then po=
st=20
back if you are having problems:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
At the same time you will most likely sort out your Xorg problem (which you=
=20
haven't come across yet). ;-)
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Regards,
Mick
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