Follow the gentoo doc instructions with their livecd- go all the through the chroot function. Once you're in there, emerge dhcpcd, and reboot. That should solve (most) of your problems, if everything else is configured properly. Good luck!
mmm... I think you gave up too fast... you seem to have forgotten to emerge dhcpcd, which is the dhcp client for the computer. Obviously, without a dhcp client, there's no way for the computer to fetch an IP address, and hence, no way...
http://www.krinke.info/xorg.conf
That's someone's xorg.conf with 1280x800. Try using it, it should work.
Knoppix boots with a stretched 1024x768 on my computer, which is also a dell 700m.
I found that the initscript for pcmica doesn't start sometimes if you put that into the default runlevel. Try putting that in your boot runlevel, and see if that works.
what do you mean, switch between the two? as in switch between both modes, between single screen and dual screen? Do you have dual screen working? You'll probably need two different configs if you want to switch constantly between the...
You had a USB detection problem. Booting the livecd with nousb would have solve that problem. Links is a command-line browser, so it's not supposed to have colors. It's similar to the classic lynx browser, whose sole purpose is to...
1) As zakaluka said, mandrake, suse, redhat, any of the big distros are quite user friendly. However, if you REALLY want to learn linux, you could try and install gentoo... (Yes, i'm a shameless gentoo user )
2) Your notebook is a...
Well, after my friend's hard drive on his 3200 died, I gave him a gnoppix disk, and he was quite happy with that. In other words, linux will work on the system. However, gnoppix was 32-bit only, so I dunno about 64 bit linux, but I don't...
