Posts by dirtboy

Before you try to get the logo to work, see if you can put in vga=775 instead of vga=ask. You may even want to make a new entry in grub.conf for testing so you will have something to fall back on. You should get a console at...

Hmm.... Make sure you are running setup (hd0) and not (hd0,0). (hd0) put it in the boot sector, (hd0,0) puts it on the first partition. Those are two different places. Also make sure you are pointing the boot command to the Linux...

Yeah, no problem. You need to know 2 things, the harddrive you want to install Grub onto, and the harddrive that contains /boot. Note that grub starts at 0 for its partitions, whereas the kernel starts at 1, i.e. disk 1 partition...

Also, if you have another machine running Linux, install distcc on it and your laptop and it can assist in compiling

Internal NIC - Realtek 8139too module USB - UHCI Sound - I use Alsa, put the string ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" in your make.conf file and emerge alsa. PCMCIA-CS never really worked for me. What I did was emerge the package to...

Word of warning on Gentoo, you will have to boot with noprobe from the live cd 1.4 r4. After that, make sure you choose the right USB controller and you should be set. There should still be a link to my config somewhere on this boards. ...

Good for you. Just like a CS major to never shy away from a challenge. If you need any help with it, just post here and I'll see what I can do. Plus, these forums are more help than you will get from most anywhere.

Just saw this and thought you guys might like to have a look. http://www.thetechzone.com/display.php?i=253&p=1

As a computer science major, I would have to say that learning linux has helped me out tremendously, especially in computer architechture classes. Linux lets you get down to the nitty gritty hardware details in the software. No...

From the FAQ: Quote: The Computrace Agent, which powers the ComputracePlus service is a small software client and is as tamper-resistant as a disk-based utility can be. Same problem here. If the disk is wiped, the...