On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:48:31 +0100, Roger Andreassen wrote: > I'm stuck without internet at home but I use the DVD that came with > Linux Format nr 58.
Good, I'm pleased it was useful to you.
> I was actually able to do a 'emerge --pretend
> --verbose kde', copy the screen echo and take it to a machine with
> ample bandwidth to fetch the missing files. Worked wonders.
emerge -p -f kde works better, it gives you the URLs of the files it will
download.
> For a real Gentoo issue I'm depending on the 2.6 kernel and used the
> bootstrap-26 script and built the 2.6 kernel. After this ordeal I was
> still not rewarded with any bttv drivers. Now can I rectify the .config
> and still use 'genkernel' or should I install the kernel as I do in
> every distro?
The bttv drivers are in the kernel, it would appear they weren't enabled
by genkernel. You could run genkernel --menuconfig and enable them in the
usual way. Or you could build the kernel manually with the standard "make
menuconfig && make && make modules_install && make install".
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Neil Bothwick
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