Posts by mattbert

Well I just restarted X. You totally rock DrFishstik. 1400x1050 is so much prettier than 1024x768 Now if I could just find firefox to use it instead of this damned Konqueror

Thanks for the config. By the way where are installed programs stored. I thought I knew from using Mandrake but evidentally I don't since i can't find any program I have emerged since KDE.

I am scared that my cd is gonna explode, there is so much noise during installs. But booting games or Knoppix or Gentoo Live or buring cd-s get no problems. I think it just likes to spin up fast when it is copying big data.

Well got Xorg working using the fglrxconfig. Had to fake a few settings and take the default values on a lot of stuff that I had no idea what does. I will fix that all soon. Emerged KDE overnight. Set KDE to start with startx. ...

Yes please, that would be nice. 1024x768 is too damn blurry on that screen. Oh and the smiley problem was eith due to Knoppix with Mozilla because they work if I am using windows with firefox or IE

I have the 20 gig drive from my old laptop in a USB 2 enclosure and I have not noticed any problems using it on my lappy. I am using just the default drivers from the disc that came with the laptop. Of course it bogs the system down a...

Ok when I run whatever the ati driver config file is i wants me o enter everyhing manually. Did you no have to do this too? If you had to what were the sync rates you entered. I wold like to run at native 1400x1050. But I don't wanna...

Hey Fishstik, did you config Xorg manually or did Xorg -configure work for you?

Well the emerge finished up right after I posted that last message. So 35 minutes to emerge. 10. Updated timezone to Central Standard (US) and updated date. 11. Emerged kernel 2.6.8-r7 took about 5 minutes. 12. Manually...

Ok things have gone so much better today. Its amazing what a fresh look at something can do. Here is what I have done so far. 1. When I installed XP on this new lappy I left ~13GB free to install Linux on. 2. The /etc/make.conf...