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On Friday 27 May 2011 05:31:15 Dale wrote: |
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> Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Mark Shields <laebshade@×××××.com |
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> > |
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> > <mailto:laebshade@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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> > You let a small problem like the latest live cd not booting your |
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> > system scare you away? |
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> > Have you tried using an older live cd? If it's a video issue, |
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> > maybe detecting your monitor wrong, how about turning on the |
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> > framebuffer (there's an option for that)? |
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> > It's doable man, don't give up. |
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> > Of course it's doable. It's just the last straw. This left my web |
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> > site down for a week; I obviously can't always keep up with Gentoo's |
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> > requirements, so I'm going to an easier distro that I'm equally |
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> > familiar with. |
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> But you will be back. ;-) |
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Ha, ha, ha! :-)) |
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Ubuntu has come in leaps and bounds over the years and its maintenance is now |
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easy-peasy. The problems start when you depart from the vanilla Ubuntu distro |
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and end up with a modified system - I have been looking after a laptop with |
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Ubuntu for a couple of years now and as long as you keep to the distro way of |
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doing things it pretty much runs without problems and upgrades are almost |
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seamless. |
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That said for someone who's been using Gentoo for some time now it should not |
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be a big deal to look after a machine like Kevin's, even if the monitor won't |
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play initially. I'm still running Gentoo on a 13 year old Pentium III 1GHz |
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laptop which is refusing to die and compiling anything serious on it is at |
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least an overnight affair. |
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The monitor problem is probably a KMS configuration issue. Add nomodeset at |
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the boot line and you should probably get your monitor again. |
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Before you throw in the towel on Gentoo completely, may I recommend |
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SystemRescueCD. It is updated more often, has the latest drivers and pretty |
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much works better that the Gentoo LiveCD (most of the time). The only thing |
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it does not have is star, which is a package I prefer to do fs backups, but |
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that's irrelevant anyway. |
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Of course Kevin only knows what is best for Kevin. Enjoy your retirement! |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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