Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

["Lord Sauron" <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com>]

On 3/25/06, Teresa and Dale <teendale@vista-express.com> wrote:
> Lord Sauron wrote:
>
> >
> >>Either they have a new bootloader or you mean grub.  I have used Lilo
> >>and now use grub.  IMHO, grub is better.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Yes, I mean grub.  I had a small technical difficulty : )
> >
> >
>
> For me, that would be not being able to type worth a hoot.  My sig on
> the forums says I can't type good.
>
> >
> >
> >>>
> >>>
> >><snip>
> >>
> >>I hope some of this makes sense.  I have been where you are now and it
> >>is a bit . . . . scary.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Hmm... maybe not scary as much as being assaulted with too many new
> >things all at once.  It makes it very hard to find where to dip your
> >toe into the larger pool of information.
> >
> >--
> >========== GCv3.12 ==========
> >GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+>++++ P+
> >L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+
> >V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+
> >                DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y
> >========= END GCv3.12 ========
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> >
>
> Weeeelllll, this Gentoo Linux.  I can tell you that once you get Gentoo
> up and running, it is awesome.  I have used Mandrake and it was OK until
> it came time to upgrade.  It also didn't teach me much.  Installing
> Gentoo taught me a lot.  It takes time but it is worth it in the end.

You think it taught you a lot?  You should see how much I've learned from it!

> There are also some good folks on here and the forums to help get you
> through.  Just hope you like to search and read a lot.  Forums are a
> great place to search.

Yeah, I got lots of good comments from others about how great the
Gentoo community was/is.

>
> Go here:  www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/3196/5/  and read
> this section:  "4.3. Configuring the kernel"  That should help.  That is
> a old guide for the older kernels but some of it still applies.  That
> should help you a lot though.

Yeah, I did what you told me to do with the make install_whatevers and
then rebooted and I got what I think is vanilla X - no GDM, KDM, or
anything.  It's sorta cool, 'cause they give you an xterm and nothing
else, but at the same time I want my KDE back.

Anyone know what to do here?  init.d says has these things:

acpid   crypto-loop  gpm  localmount  pwcheck  shutdown.sh
apmd cupsd  halt.sh  modules  reboot.sh  spamd
bootmisc  depscan.sh  hdparm  net.eth0  reslisa  sshd
checkfs  distccd  hostname  net.lo  rmnologin  syslog-ng
checkroot domainname  hotplug  netmount  rsyncd  urandom
clock  esound  keymaps nscd  runscript.sh  vixie-cron
coldplug fand  lisa numlock  samba xdm
consolefont  functions.sh  local  portmap sasauthd

I tried xdm restart, xdm start, and am about to try xdm stop to see if
I can get the normal GDM login screen (which will then start KDE -
yay!)  However, I'm not sure what to do if that fails.  I know that
there's a xinit something or other somewhere that I should put
startkde in, but I'm not sure where or what to do now.  I learned
about xinit and startkde a long while ago on Debian when I didn't know
that hitting spacebar selects a checkbox.  I ended up installing the
base Debian system - nothing extra.  It was interesting, my first time
on Linux with nothing but me and the console.  Luckily I managed to
beat my way through the problem after about a week.

> Hope that helps.  Keep your chin up.

Yeah, don't worry - I don't stop until it's done.  Thanks for your help!

--
========== GCv3.12 ==========
GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+>++++ P+
L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+
V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+
                DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y
========= END GCv3.12 ========

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