On Saturday 27 June 2009 00:50:15 Alan E. Davis wrote:
I didn't say anything about my hardware. The main hiccough, installing
gentoo, has been the ath5k module, which was at one time, I think,
ath_pci. Newer kernels may support this out of the box, in a gentoo
install.
My Acer Aspire One
On Saturday 27 June 2009 02:28:59 Alan E. Davis wrote:
Perhaps I can just edit the existing /etc/fstab, using device names. The
device numbering is inconsistent between GNU/Linux distros under the (what
I presume to be) new scheme, with all devices names as /dev/sdX .
Default kernel names
On Samstag 27 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 27 June 2009 02:28:59 Alan E. Davis wrote:
Perhaps I can just edit the existing /etc/fstab, using device names. The
device numbering is inconsistent between GNU/Linux distros under the
(what I presume to be) new scheme, with all
Hope not to bother, but ask advice about converting a nominally successful
Sabayon install to Gentoo.
I've been away from Gentoo for a while, found Ubuntu a joy if for no other
reason than to have time to do what I want to use my system for. I had
found Gentoo required an inordinant amount of
090626 Alan E. Davis sought:
advice about converting a nominally successful Sabayon install to Gentoo.
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so what's your hardware what do you use your machine for ?
Gentoo is not for everyone, but it's not difficult to install or maintain:
your experiences don't sound
Sensible? What's that?
I think if my use has been beyond sensible, it's mainly in one or two areas:
I keep alot of software installed; and I keep up to date on a number of
programs (this is an area where I may need to redefine sensible from my
own perspective).
I keep this box set up for a wide
Alan E. Davis wrote:
I try to keep up to date, but I am not a computer scientist, so I often will
tolerate some sloppiness in the system, and may overlook maintainance.
You can certainly overlook maintenance with Gentoo, and mainly do
security updates only. The problem is that Gentoo is in a
I didn't say anything about my hardware. The main hiccough, installing
gentoo, has been the ath5k module, which was at one time, I think, ath_pci.
Newer kernels may support this out of the box, in a gentoo install. Beside
that, dual monitors are working with the nvidia drivers.
Another problem,
On Freitag 26 Juni 2009, Alan E. Davis wrote:
Hope not to bother, but ask advice about converting a nominally successful
Sabayon install to Gentoo.
I've been away from Gentoo for a while, found Ubuntu a joy if for no other
reason than to have time to do what I want to use my system for. I
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:50:15 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote:
I didn't say anything about my hardware. The main hiccough, installing
gentoo, has been the ath5k module, which was at one time, I think,
ath_pci. Newer kernels may support this out of the box, in a gentoo
install. Beside that, dual
Thank you for the useful advice. One more question will help: does the new
kernel support ath5k out of the box on an install?
Perhaps I can just edit the existing /etc/fstab, using device names. The
device numbering is inconsistent between GNU/Linux distros under the (what I
presume to be) new
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