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Thank you for the suggestions. I wonder out loud whether the Ubuntu |
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kernel is using something like a genkernel install, with everything as |
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modules. If so, in that case, how would one get a snapshot of what is |
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being utilized? |
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Alan |
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On Jan 9, 2008 11:00 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote: |
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> > Partly because I needed to print, and partly to rule out hardware |
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> > issues, I booted ubuntu 7.10, and installed. No problem has been |
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> > encountered over the past few days of using ubuntu. I can print, and |
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> > no lockups are encountered (so far, KOW). |
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> Clearly your Gentoo installation has some configuration issues, inc. your |
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> compiled kernels. The initialisation scripts and misconfiguration of |
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> services at boot/default runlevels could be another problem causing it to |
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> choke. |
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> > This is distressing. I enjoy not having to fiddle around, not |
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> > spending so much time maintaining the system, and it's almost |
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> > lightning quick to install packages!. Perhaps I'll use Ubuntu for a |
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> > while---but I'd sure like to solve this problem. I just tried an |
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> > incantation (kernel parameter) that had been recommended somewhere. |
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> > (noapic nolapic acpi=off pci=noacpi), but still got the same behavior. |
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> > Sometime soon I'll try to recompile the kernel or back down to |
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> > 2.6.22. (I'd only compiled 2.6.23 for this new motherboard). |
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> I suggest that you zcat your Ubuntu's .config file into your |
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> Gentoo's /usr/src/linux and then run make oldconfig. That should give you |
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> the same kernel configuration which you can thereafter peruse at leisure. At |
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> the same time I would copy over the CUPS configuration file from Ubuntu to |
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> Gentoo (but don't try that until you have proven that your new Gentoo kernel |
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> is still having problems printing). You can even diff the two files to see |
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> if there are any significant differences in settings. |
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> HTH. |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan lngndvs@×××××.com |
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"It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..." |
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---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man |
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