Hi Mark, I think you have a good point. I think I missed something. Gentoo can be complicated to get going the first time with all the config options. Once it is going tho, it goes. I feel I missed either a config option in the guide or maybe some package is missing that isn't pulled in as a dependency. I could have a wrong USE flag too.
Along your lines of thinking, I'll boot the Gentoo GUI image which has a GUI. I tend not to use it but I can let it run and see what resolution it runs at. If it fails to, then it may be hardware. If it runs fine, something on my install in wonky. I may test with Knoppix as well. I'm pretty sure I have a EFI version lurking about here somewhere. Those are good ideas. No problem with top posting. I top posted to make it easier for you to read my reply. ;-) Dale :-) :-) Mark Knecht wrote: > Dale, > Sorry for top posting but I'm travelling and responding on my phone. > > I don't think this is you hardware and probably not KDE. It's > possibly some Gentoo-ish issue. > > To test and get a KDE config I would boot a Kubuntu flash drive and > choose the 'Try it's option which installs nothing. If the GUI stays > up then look at drivers and general config. I run Kubuntu on 5 > machines, all with different hardware, and I've never had a failure > that I did cause. I've installed Kubuntu on at least 20 machines over > the last 6 or 7 machines and every one has booted first time. > > Give it a try. If it does fail then it's possibly something about > your hardware but if the machine works as well as you say then I would > buy you a cup of coffee if it's not Gentoo-bssed. > > Good luck, > Mark
