Re: [gentoo-dev] Problems with LiveCD

[Brandon Low]

To answer part of that, it is simple to get the already patched 
gentoo-sources... DOH if you are a gentoo user.  the patchset is available 
from http://gentoo.lostlogicx.com/patche-2.4.19-gentoo-r10.tar.bz2 (that 
is NOT the patchset used for the LiveCD, the liveCD is 
http://gentoo.lostlogicx.com/patches-2.4.19-gentoo-r9.tar.bz2 ).  After 
downloading the patchset, put a pristine linux-2.4.19 kernel source tree 
in /usr/src/linux then extract the patch tarball somewhere, and type 
"./addpatches" from the 2.4.19-gentoo-r10/9 directory to apply the patches 
(you may want to first remove the 80* and *xfs* patches from the set, as 
they are NOT included in the default gentoo patching process)

--Brandon

On Sun, 10/13/02 at 13:08:35 -1000, Erik Hill wrote:
> I am a long-time Linux user and am interested in Gentoo, however, I am
> having some trouble getting the UT Live CD to work.  I have a "Shuttle
> X" PC with 512MB RAM, an EDID compatible 17" monitor, an Nvidia Geforce
> 4 Ti 4200, and an 80GB harddrive.  Normally, I run RedHat 8.0.  I burned
> the CD and then booted off of it.  Logged in as "root", set no
> password.  Then typed "x-start" or whatever it was (will have to reboot
> I suppose and write all this down).  I selected from the options
> presented, "800x600", "16-bit", "yes I'd like to load UT into RAM", and
> "EDID compatible monitor".  I also selected the Nvidia option that was
> presented as the default.  When X began to start, I got a screen-full of
> garbage text instead of an X-windows session..  So I rebooted, and tried
> another set of selections, to the same result.  Now I've tried about 30
> - 40 different combinations of options, including higher and lower
> resolutions, setting my monitor's settings as if it weren't EDID, trying
> all three of the various Nvidia options, and trying it without loading
> UT into memory.  But the result is always the same, although sometimes I
> get color text and sometimes monochrome.   Under RedHat 8.0, with the
> NVIDIA drivers installed (from www.nvidia.com), and an XF86Config that
> was created for me during the redhat installation process, I have an
> X-Windows system that works, so I don't think it's hardware.  (since
> then I've tweaked the XF86Config file with higher-refresh-rate
> Modelines, but it worked both before and after the tweaks)  My video
> card is made by MSI.  I'd love to get this thing to work, and also hope
> that by working through these problems can help gentoo with
> compatibility, because I'd love to put gentoo on my machine.
>
> Here are some questions.
>
> #1 How can I track down this problem?  Is there a way I can extract more
> info on my hardware setup so I can perhaps find the problem?  I wonder
> if it's the AGP chipset used on the ShuttleX's motherboard?  How could I
> find out?  (machine is this one
> http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/02q3/020815/index.html)
>
> #2 is it possible to just get the already-patched source code to the
> gentoo kernel?  I'd love to start with that, and boot my redhat system
> off of it.  I want to use robert love's and ingo molnar's various
> patches for speed and responsiveness.  I tried to patch the kernel
> myself, but the patches conflict with each other, and although I am a
> programmer, am a little unwilling to dig into the linux kernel code not
> knowing what I am doing.  Especially since this has already been done by
> people who (hopefully) know a lot more about the Linux kernel than me.
> Maybe I can sneakily install package after package until my red-hat
> system becomes a gentoo system.  Course, may run into a conflict here
> and there :)
>
>
>
>
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