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I am a long-time Linux user and am interested in Gentoo, however, I am |
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having some trouble getting the UT Live CD to work. I have a "Shuttle |
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X" PC with 512MB RAM, an EDID compatible 17" monitor, an Nvidia Geforce |
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4 Ti 4200, and an 80GB harddrive. Normally, I run RedHat 8.0. I burned |
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the CD and then booted off of it. Logged in as "root", set no |
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password. Then typed "x-start" or whatever it was (will have to reboot |
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I suppose and write all this down). I selected from the options |
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presented, "800x600", "16-bit", "yes I'd like to load UT into RAM", and |
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"EDID compatible monitor". I also selected the Nvidia option that was |
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presented as the default. When X began to start, I got a screen-full of |
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garbage text instead of an X-windows session.. So I rebooted, and tried |
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another set of selections, to the same result. Now I've tried about 30 |
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- 40 different combinations of options, including higher and lower |
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resolutions, setting my monitor's settings as if it weren't EDID, trying |
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all three of the various Nvidia options, and trying it without loading |
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UT into memory. But the result is always the same, although sometimes I |
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get color text and sometimes monochrome. Under RedHat 8.0, with the |
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NVIDIA drivers installed (from www.nvidia.com), and an XF86Config that |
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was created for me during the redhat installation process, I have an |
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X-Windows system that works, so I don't think it's hardware. (since |
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then I've tweaked the XF86Config file with higher-refresh-rate |
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Modelines, but it worked both before and after the tweaks) My video |
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card is made by MSI. I'd love to get this thing to work, and also hope |
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that by working through these problems can help gentoo with |
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compatibility, because I'd love to put gentoo on my machine. |
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Here are some questions. |
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#1 How can I track down this problem? Is there a way I can extract more |
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info on my hardware setup so I can perhaps find the problem? I wonder |
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if it's the AGP chipset used on the ShuttleX's motherboard? How could I |
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find out? (machine is this one |
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http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/02q3/020815/index.html) |
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#2 is it possible to just get the already-patched source code to the |
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gentoo kernel? I'd love to start with that, and boot my redhat system |
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off of it. I want to use robert love's and ingo molnar's various |
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patches for speed and responsiveness. I tried to patch the kernel |
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myself, but the patches conflict with each other, and although I am a |
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programmer, am a little unwilling to dig into the linux kernel code not |
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knowing what I am doing. Especially since this has already been done by |
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people who (hopefully) know a lot more about the Linux kernel than me. |
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Maybe I can sneakily install package after package until my red-hat |
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system becomes a gentoo system. Course, may run into a conflict here |
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and there :) |
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