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 4.54) id 1FNGE1-0003IL-VO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:23:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2PLMA32009728; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:22:10 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2PLHG3M014829 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:17:17 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id f1so231215nzc for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 13:17:16 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=W+Au+frw2pB47/AwDo82mb65OjwGp/hwG3HmjvxdGy+xBvGKUDpMSeepUCVIl3EBBFlAM0kuxMwDjEUDbpGjlPp3K4dkIMb+5mT4VALzuTFQLin1CUawMu37FNVhH+uWG6mewHtqvgG/eZ/nZObZdP479i6YKsznXkdB6V5XO3U= Received: by 10.36.71.19 with SMTP id t19mr1099401nza; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 13:17:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.154.7 with HTTP; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 13:17:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 13:17:16 -0800 From: "Lord Sauron" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel In-Reply-To: <44257656.9030800@vista-express.com> 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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <8c7713390603240019w3011a903p@mail.gmail.com> <4423AD6A.5010404@vista-express.com> <4424A946.1030602@vista-express.com> <44257656.9030800@vista-express.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k2PLHG3M014829 X-Archives-Salt: 41e2b334-b0c6-466b-b1cd-cfb7b0568bd2 X-Archives-Hash: cb3ca4a6fabd9db67f9f23dd002e25ef On 3/25/06, Teresa and Dale 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. > > > > > > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >>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 ======== > > > > > > > > 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 ======== -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list