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post #21 of 32
3/14/03 at 2:22pm
Which live cd are you using? 1.2, 1.4_rc2 or 1.4_rc3?
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post #22 of 32
3/14/03 at 5:09pm

hey

Been stealin stuff from 1.2, but will base it on 1.4rc as far as i know. I am currently awaiting 2.4.21 release which will have the ide patches. At the moment , patching acpi is enough, and i want to supply 3 dif kernels with the base install.

I have the boot process and the ncurses scripts as to : What machine do you have : 5660, 8886 or 887 ready. Just need collaboration with a 888X sager linux owner. Who is interested ?
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post #23 of 32
3/14/03 at 5:40pm
Thread Starter 
me me me me me...

I am an 8886 owner... and if you can get it to work well for me, it will work for anybody (with me being a newbie and all )

Also, anytime I am on the net, I am usually connected to some form of high speed line, so trading shouldn't be much of a problem

/me awaits laclasse's response eagerly
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post #24 of 32
3/14/03 at 8:33pm
I can give you hand if you like. I use the vanilla-sources and patched it up to 2.4.21-pre5. ACPI is working fine. Even have USB working great with a USB drive, the mp3 player, and a usb to ps2 mouse and ps2 keyboard (one adapter, two ps2 ports).
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post #25 of 32
3/15/03 at 10:18am
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Hey dirtboy,

I was trying to use gentoo 1.4rc3

It keeps hanging on USB and PCI hotplugging.


Any help is really apreciated... I searched all of gentoo's forums, and one guy is having the same problem, he says it is something to do with pcmcia ports.

Unfortunately gentoo does not have a nopcmcia option at start-up (with rh and mdk I have to use it + nousb and noprobe to get the installer to boot)

Cheers

NeoCORE
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post #26 of 32
3/16/03 at 3:04pm
I did mine using rc2 and it never hung up on me. Give that a try and see if it is any better. It should be archived on one of the download mirrors.
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post #27 of 32
3/16/03 at 4:34pm
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Ill be posting a guide on how to install gentoo soon... got it up and running, and it does run very sweet


used the 1.2 cd, no bother, it's to do with the kernel they provide in the rc3 livedisk.

Performed the install from stage 1... runs nice and fast now...
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post #28 of 32
3/16/03 at 6:57pm

Dirtboy, Neocore

Well hehe, this is much appreciated thank you very much.

Dirtboy, which 888X do you own. Please paste an lspci and a lsmod of your current distro. A kernel config will be nice.

Thanks again

PS: Not much time at the moment, as i have been more or less absent of the forum. Next week will be quieter.
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post #29 of 32
3/16/03 at 11:52pm
~8886. Its actually a Pro-Star 8854, but they are the same machines. They even use the same pictures in all their ads. I'll postup my configs as soon as I get them uploaded to a hosting site. Those things are too long to put up on a forum.
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post #30 of 32
3/17/03 at 12:32am
Totally off topic. You guys should try using distcc if you have more than one machine with Gentoo. It lets two machines work together when compiling from an emerge.
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post #31 of 32
3/21/03 at 6:04pm
Ok, now I have my Gentoo webserver hosting files for me at home.

Here is my kernel config file for 2.4.20 vanilla-sources patched with prepatch 2.4.21-pre5 from kernel.org .config

Output of lspci. pci.txt
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post #32 of 32
3/22/03 at 10:47am
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I am currently going to use gaming sources, they have been rated extremely well for games and just general desktop speed...

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=40262


NeoCORE
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