Posts by xiphux

Gentoo comes as a livecd, but the livecd only creates a barebones setup; enough for you to install gentoo on your hard drive yourself. Not really suitable for everyday use. If you're talking about a full-fledged livecd like knoppix...

I don't really see much of a point. What I think would be more useful is making a Sager-geared Gentoo LiveCD with catalyst.

Ok, _everyone_ just chill the hell out. If this degenerates further, I'll be forced to close the thread.

I know, but you ended up sounding a lot like the other advertisers who float around on this forum. No harsh feelings. But honestly, I'm not particularly surprised at the price. I have a similar system that's about a year old, and it...

While this thread is funny, I don't really want to make it sticky for fear of misleading anyone. I'd rather make it sticky if it had some decent information - for example, an _actual_ deal.

Yes, I think you are the only one that considers this a deal. I'm sure everyone here is competent enough to make their own decisions about what to buy and where to buy from.

You might also want to do a "dmesg -s40000 | less" and see if there's anything useful.

I think that there's something wrong with the mtrr code in the ati drivers. (I don't know; I didn't write them.) But when the graphics card is initialized, the driver is supposed to set up the mtrr correctly. When I use DRI or a...

What does it say in your X log? (At the point it tries to initialize dri)

Try doing "root=2270".