Re: [gentoo-user] Botched Gentoo Install - but some progress

2005-08-09 Thread Robert Crawford
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 08:13 am, C.Beamer wrote: > Hi All, > > When I previously posted and got the response below, it may as well > have been hieroglyphics because I had no idea what Bob was talking > about. However, when I went back to square one and got to the point > of compiling the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Botched Gentoo Install - but some progress

2005-08-09 Thread C.Beamer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, When I previously posted and got the response below, it may as well have been hieroglyphics because I had no idea what Bob was talking about. However, when I went back to square one and got to the point of compiling the kernel, I still used g

Re: [gentoo-user] Botched Gentoo Install

2005-08-04 Thread Richard Fish
C.Beamer wrote: Hi Michael et al, Michael Crute wrote: Colleen, Glad to see another Fedora user see the light! Here's the scoop... you haven't botched anything you just need to configure your X server. In theory it is very easy to configure your X server all you need to do is run "Xorg --c

Re: [gentoo-user] Botched Gentoo Install

2005-08-03 Thread Michael Crute
Indeed... that was what I needed every time. Try Bob's trick. I don't run craptel hardware (been burned too many times) so perhaps I2C IS required for their junk. Try to reconfigure the kernel per Bob's directions and see if that fixes things. -MikeOn 8/4/05, C.Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] Botched Gentoo Install

2005-08-03 Thread Rumen Yotov
C.Beamer wrote: >Hi Michael et al, > >Michael Crute wrote: > > > >>Colleen, >>Glad to see another Fedora user see the light! Here's the scoop... you >>haven't botched anything you just need to configure your X server. In >>theory it is very easy to configure your X server all you need to do >>is

Re: [gentoo-user] Botched Gentoo Install

2005-08-03 Thread C.Beamer
Hi Michael et al, Michael Crute wrote: > Colleen, > Glad to see another Fedora user see the light! Here's the scoop... you > haven't botched anything you just need to configure your X server. In > theory it is very easy to configure your X server all you need to do > is run "Xorg --configure" as

Re: [gentoo-user] Botched Gentoo Install

2005-08-03 Thread Michael Crute
Bob, I2C is not a prerequisite of running X he just needs to configure the X server and it should work. I have run into this before and solved it without building I2C into the kernel (or as a module). All I forgot to do was configure X. -MikeOn 8/3/05, Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On We

Re: [gentoo-user] Botched Gentoo Install

2005-08-03 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 21:02:32 -0400 "C.Beamer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Welcome to the fun. > After attempting to connect to the xserver, I got my shell prompt back > again with the following printed on the screen: > > New driver is "i810" > (==)Using default built in configuration > (EE) open

Re: [gentoo-user] Botched Gentoo Install

2005-08-03 Thread Michael Crute
Colleen, Glad to see another Fedora user see the light! Here's the scoop... you haven't botched anything you just need to configure your X server. In theory it is very easy to configure your X server all you need to do is run "Xorg --configure" as root then copy the xorg config file from /root/xorg

[gentoo-user] Botched Gentoo Install

2005-08-03 Thread C.Beamer
Hello all, This will be a bit lengthy and I apologize for that, but I don't know exactly where I went wrong, so am providing all details. First, I am new to Gentoo, but not new to Linux. I have installed source tarballs on other distributions (mostly Redhat and Fedora), but have never configured