Posts by dirtboy

Did your wireless connection suddely start up and take control of your internet routing? I have have problems like that having more than one connection up at a time.

Munky: Senior, but at MS State. GaTech is the closest mirror on the backbone

I can usually get 70 K over dsl from servers in Europe. GaTech can give me about 150K, but it only lets me in as anonymous after school hours.

.Whoa, I check back and xiphux shows up. Heheheh. He does tell the truth, though. Linux is so diverse it con only be documented in a medium as volatile as the WWW. Kudos to you getting it installed! I only suggested ~x86 since...

If you are using Xfree 4, it looks for the -4 first, if it is not found, it looks for the old file. I totally forgot to tell you to try to use the beta software. Its faster. In your make.conf look for ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~arch"...

If you want to make sure you have 3d accelleration, here is my config file. This also has everything in it you need to get X to recognize a USB mouse after you have the kernel loading the modules for it. For this to work, emerge...

Here's a shot list of some software I have emerged. There are many more available, I just haven't yet run into a situation where I would need them. You can search the list using this command: emerge -s...

Yes, for me to get pcmcia-cs working I had to use the kernel drivers, which aren't supposed to work but do. Here is a copy of the post I put up on the Gentoo Forums for this. Much easier than retyping: Quote: Here's how I...

No, changing the active flag ("bootable" flag in cfdisk) will not hurt anything. You are correct about the series of events. Here is my grub.conf.

No, hda1 should be marked as bootable if you are installing grub on the MBR. Grub will do the booting, then load the OS menu from hda6, then load the OS you choose. Also, your Grub commands to get it installed will be: setup...