Thank you for the suggestions. I wonder out loud whether the Ubuntu kernel is using something like a genkernel install, with everything as modules. If so, in that case, how would one get a snapshot of what is being utilized?
Alan On Jan 9, 2008 11:00 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote: > > > Partly because I needed to print, and partly to rule out hardware > > issues, I booted ubuntu 7.10, and installed. No problem has been > > encountered over the past few days of using ubuntu. I can print, and > > no lockups are encountered (so far, KOW). > > Clearly your Gentoo installation has some configuration issues, inc. your > compiled kernels. The initialisation scripts and misconfiguration of > services at boot/default runlevels could be another problem causing it to > choke. > > > This is distressing. I enjoy not having to fiddle around, not > > spending so much time maintaining the system, and it's almost > > lightning quick to install packages!. Perhaps I'll use Ubuntu for a > > while---but I'd sure like to solve this problem. I just tried an > > incantation (kernel parameter) that had been recommended somewhere. > > (noapic nolapic acpi=off pci=noacpi), but still got the same behavior. > > Sometime soon I'll try to recompile the kernel or back down to > > 2.6.22. (I'd only compiled 2.6.23 for this new motherboard). > > I suggest that you zcat your Ubuntu's .config file into your > Gentoo's /usr/src/linux and then run make oldconfig. That should give you > the same kernel configuration which you can thereafter peruse at leisure. At > the same time I would copy over the CUPS configuration file from Ubuntu to > Gentoo (but don't try that until you have proven that your new Gentoo kernel > is still having problems printing). You can even diff the two files to see > if there are any significant differences in settings. > > HTH. > -- > Regards, > Mick > -- Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..." ---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list