-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well I was finally able to work out all the kinks in the installation instructions (for my install). I'm running an AMD Athlon XP Thoroughbred 2700+ on an ASUS motherboard with nForce2 chipset. My graphics card is an nVidia GeForceFX 5700. Merry Christmas to me :-)
Here are a few of my notes: 1) the "emerge -k nvidia-kernel" is broken. do a "links www.nvidia.com" and download the driver straight from the website, to /mnt/gentoo/ 2) genkernel is the ONLY working option. do a "genkernel --config" and enable your options, then follow the installation instructions until you hit the /etc/lilo.conf -- append = "root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc" should look more like append = "init=" because if you leave the entire line in there, it panics on USB hardware detection. if you only take out the arguments for init= then in the middle of the ramdisk it drops you a busybox. 3) it's easy to forget to edit /etc/fstab if you're installing for the 5th time. 4) (in reference to #1) since genkernel is the only option, your only choice is to genkernel yourself a kernel, but not only will "emerge nvidia-kernel" fail, but so will nVidia's own drivers! to solve this, I simply did the following: cd /usr/src/linux make dep this way your "modversions.h" file gets "made" appropriately. 5) it's also EXTREMELY EASY to forget your rc-updates 6) most problems with networking can be fixed with the following: /etc/init.d/net.foo stop ifconfig foo down /etc/init.d/net.foo start That is, if you're using DHCP like I am. 7) Hermes drivers are bad?? They've always been rather f**ked up for me, but it seems that whenever I'm doing an ebuild on a fairly large file, the interface cuts out and locks up without letting go until I reset the computer... It did this on Mandrake, too, but not this easily. 8) setting up nvidia drivers in XFree86 is tricky. (as root) /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config (configure here, not nessecarily correctly, just well enough to get keyboard and a VGA display. Pretend the VGA display is your nVidia card. you can use the nv driver if you want, but it didn't seem to work correctly on my GeForceFX...) nano /etc/X11/XF86Config (drop down to the video card you configured. change "nv" or "vga" to "nvidia". Oh yeah, you also need to add "nvidia" to your /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-KV) (now, if you're in the LiveCD, forget it. just reboot. Otherwise, do this: /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86cfg look! magical graphical config! I love it.) 9) remember your good friend "/etc/init.d/xdm restart" Cheers, Scott Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/67KkeNHiVTXLosARAkmrAJ9Aay5uk4hbXaGCyryN5HkNtVd9pwCgmzUR lcXSM94SDrqAYOqe9yTxy/U= =7pgZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
