On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:13:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Nothing to see here, move along, this is gentoo after all. Heh. It's certainly a learning experience coming from Fedora. I did a "networkless" install from the live CD which went smoothly, but I think it brings some inherent issues with it; for instance, the above issues with blocked packages and so forth. A bigger issue, which I have (had) a different thread going on was hardware recognition. While mucking about with GNOME (I took the easy out and just did "emerge gnome --unmerge; emerge gnome" to fix some sort of bonobo error) I caught sight of references to HAL. This makes me think that on a low-level the packages required for recognizing CD-ROM and CD-R/W drives, and probably USB ports, simply isn't functioning or isn't installed correctly. I'm not particularly motivated to deal with it at the moment, but maybe I could get some background general information on this. Heh, I say that, but haven't referenced the gentoo handbook on the topic. -Thufir -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
