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Paul, |
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Thanks for this suggestion, and all the suggestions of the others. I have |
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stored your messages in a special file in case this comes up again. It is |
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good to know where to find the actual modules, rather than in just .conf |
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files, and I appreciate the effort all of you have put into your messages. |
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As it is, I could not take it any more, and yesterday I erased my Gentoo |
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installation (mke2fs -j hda4 will do that!) and re-installed from an .iso |
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image based on the 2.4.19-gentoo kernel. It was not just the sound that was |
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wrong: my purchased copy of Crossover did not work for plugins; samba |
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printing from a Win2K client to the linux box did not work (multiple hours |
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lost combing through the smb.conf file), and of course sound did not work. |
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It seemed that functionality was terminally screwed up, and it was getting |
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worse. Finally, X and my video drivers became unusable. |
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Everything started deteriorating after I did a 'emerge world update'. That |
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process hung at the end, so it did not have a chance to completely update |
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the system, hence I believe the machine was left as a sort of hybrid, |
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partially 2.4.18 and partially 2.4.19-gentoo. Also, the 'emerge world |
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update' loaded a new (default) 'make menuconfig' file, that included kernel |
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support for at least one sound card that I did not have. Normally this |
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should not cause depmod -a to generate errors, but that's what I was |
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getting. The errors all involved drivers in the ~/sound/pci directory, |
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which was weird, because I don't have a pci sound card. Anyway, it was a |
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mess. |
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When I recompiled my kernel, I left oss sound, as well as the support for |
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the SB-16 ISAPNP, compiled as a module. On the samba front, I said 'no' to |
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smb file system support. In the previous kernel, I had compiled it (smb fs |
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support) into the kernel. I think this interfered with samba, and prevented |
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printing with 'access denied' errors on the Windows client. The help file |
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for that kernel option said that Samba works fine without smb fs support. |
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We shall see if that fixes the samba printing problem. |
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Right now the system boots without error via grub to the CLI. I still need |
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to emerge X and KDE 3.0, ALSA, and all the other packages. This is my |
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second install of Gentoo, and I think I'm going to get it right this time. |
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Just hope I don't need more 'practice.' |
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Cheers, |
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Rob W. |