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post #41 of 52
12/24/05 at 2:14pm
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Originally Posted by bsmith
opengl-update ati? also where do you have the agp settings set to? Internal or external?
opengl-update ati <---- done

internal or external ? ugh... don't remember. where do i check?
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post #42 of 52
12/24/05 at 2:18pm
Good to hear of all the advancements, abf!

Seablade, even though the ATI drivers are binary, the kernel "hooks" must still be recompiled for every new kernel. I don't know the details, but thats what happens. Every time I upgrade my kernel, I have to recompile the ATI drivers, the Synaptics module and NDISWrapper, although I don't use it anymore.

Abf, the Gentoo base-layout includes a very convenient init script for setting up wireless. Basically, when you start your /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 (or whatever), it knows its a wireless device so it calls a special wireless script. It does things like scan the surroundings and figure out your preferred APs. Anyhow, the config is in /etc/conf.d/wireless and an examples is in /etc/init.d/wireless.example. I think there is a HOWTO on http://gentoo-wiki.com (very good resource). Browse around. Learning how to deal with all this via the console is extremely valuable; use GUI tools for convenience, but you should still be able to do things by hand if need be.

Finally, as for "post-install tweaking", enjoy yourself! I can honestly say that I didn't stop tweaking my Gentoo until at least a year after installing it.
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post #43 of 52
12/24/05 at 2:27pm
it's in your xorg.conf
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post #44 of 52
12/24/05 at 2:55pm
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Originally Posted by mmarkin
Good to hear of all the advancements, abf!

Seablade, even though the ATI drivers are binary, the kernel "hooks" must still be recompiled for every new kernel. I don't know the details, but thats what happens. Every time I upgrade my kernel, I have to recompile the ATI drivers, the Synaptics module and NDISWrapper, although I don't use it anymore.
That is what I was referencing with my statement, I wasnt sure if they COULD be recompiled or not.

If they can, have you done so since you recompiled your kernel last time ABF?

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Finally, as for "post-install tweaking", enjoy yourself! I can honestly say that I didn't stop tweaking my Gentoo until at least a year after installing it.
I am still tweaking mine actually So many fun things to play with, so little time.

Seablade
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post #45 of 52
12/24/05 at 3:01pm
abf, that is for all cards. btw what kernel are you using? Make sure that when you built your kernel the radeon ati drivers and vesa are built as modules not builtin, there was another bug like that from what i remember
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post #46 of 52
12/24/05 at 3:16pm
abf check out kde-apps.org. i personally use kwifimanager in suse, and it works fine.

there is also this one, http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=21832 , it appears to be better than kwifi but ive never used it before. id recommend trying wireless assitant first, and then going back to kwifimanager.

another thing, i assume you have kde 3.5 now. if not, you should, if so, download this, its great for notebooks. just make sure you have all the pyqt and pykde crap installed. http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=24626
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post #47 of 52
12/24/05 at 6:24pm
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might as well kill this thread.

after some thinking i made up my mind to kill Gentoo. I like it, but.... manual configuration and waiting for 5 hours for a program to install is simply not my cup of tea. so anywho.

as a tribute to all Suse users out there (and me being a constant suse flamer) i downloaded the 5 cds required for the OSS 10.0 x86 distro. anywho. toodles!
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post #48 of 52
12/24/05 at 6:38pm
abf if you don't like portage, manual config why did you waste a few days on it?
And fglrx i got working on my 9600 when it was the 2005.0 generation
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post #49 of 52
12/24/05 at 6:49pm
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Originally Posted by Erebus_505X
And fglrx i got working on my 9600 when it was the 2005.0 generation
Heh, try "when it was still the 1.4 generation!"

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Sad to see this happen, Abf.
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post #50 of 52
12/24/05 at 6:52pm
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Originally Posted by Erebus_505X
abf if you don't like portage, manual config why did you waste a few days on it?
i am on break right now with nothing better to do. plus i always had that feeling of failiure, for i have failed at gentoo every single time before. but i guess thats ok, no worries, life goes on.

as i write this i am installing the easy-going world of GUI tools and automatic everything. hahaha....good times.
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post #51 of 52
12/25/05 at 3:09pm
enjoy it. make sure to add kde 3.5 repositories to it, and read this

http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT2703022234.html

this might be interesting too... http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT9133949670.html
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post #52 of 52
6/2/06 at 4:07pm
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Originally Posted by abf
anyway, back to the mouse issue.
(snip)
feel free to post anymore ideas in regards to the mouse issue if you got em
You probably only forgot one line. After you define both input devices you need to configure the ServerLayout section to define one input device as your CorePointer, and one to SendCoreEvents. Here's mine;
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