On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 08:52:34 +1200 yuri wrote: > Hi all, > > First of all, a big thanks to Robert for the use of his facilities, > and to Chris and Nick for their gentoo guruhood, and others who were > there who all offered useful tips top this gentoo n00b. > > The Good: > * Sound just works. No surprises there, every distro I've thrown at > this laptop has managed to make noise thru my speakers. > * Eth0 also works - again no surprise - linux is pretty good with > most wired ethernet (don't ask me about wireless). > * USB storage thingies (thumb drive/pen drive/flash > drive/whatever-ya-call-it) works. > It automounted as soon as I plugged it into the USB port, but wouldn't > let anyone but root browse its contents until they were added to the > group "plugdev". I dicovered the group is called "plugdev" by checking > who owns "/media/usbdrive". > * Some power management stuff that never worked under Mandrake 10.0 > now works fine!
Probably a function of a later kernel version. 2.6.x is moving very fast (for better or worse) > - When shutting down, Mandrake would require manual use of the > "power" button to physically turn the laptop off after runlevel three > was reached. Gentoo powers lappie off automagicly when it shuts down. ditto > - The is now a battery moniter in the bottom right corner (next to > the clock) that tells me whether lappie is plugged in, how much > battery "juice" is left, and if plugged in it tells me if it's charged > or charging. Mandrake never gave me that. > This is a KDE thing, but probably doesn't work unless power management has some semblance of working, see above. > It could just be that I never URPMIed the right packages to make it > work - maybe a recent version of Mandriva would've given me everything > gentoo has given me. Overall, I think I'll stick with gentoo for a > while. > > The Bad: > * USB mouse only works if it is plugged in _after_ gentoo has booted. > If I boot with the mouse plugged in I have to unplug, plug back in, > and it goes straight away. Minor annoyance, but most n00bs wouldn't > think of just unplugging and plugging back in, so could've been I show > stopper for n00bs. Just a query - 1. does the track pad work? 2. does the mouse work in a console before replugging? > > The Ugly: > * When booting, a whole lot of messages scroll past for about 15~20 > seconds complaining that it can't remove certain files - "operation > not permitted". > I suspect this is part of a clean-up operation. If I could find the > script that's doing this, I could knock it on the head. > Not a show stopper, but also not a good look if I want to demo gentoo > to a potential convert, hence I've categorised it under "ugly". > I am not sure what is generating this. I suspect its something to do with the kororaa install, although I haven't seen it on any other kororaa generated install. We did have that crash on your machine when we had to power off. Dunno if it is related to that. Are you able to write down a few of the file names it is trying to rm and I'll post to the kororaa forum. > Yuri de Groot > Recent Gentoo convert -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
