Gentoo!

[Mpemba Effect]

Originally posted by Deadly Ferret
It doesn't appear to be on either CD. I've tried running the command with each CD in the tray, and both times it came up with messages about not being able to download it from various http locations such as Soulforge.

Is there anything more specific I need to do beyond mounting the CD then emerge gdm?

Is the box not on the net? If it is all you need to do is

emerge gdm

 

[robmiller]

After various household tasks have been completed, I'll be preparing for a long evening of Gentoo fixing

 

[robmiller]

Right, I'm going in, wish me luck. Hopefully it'll just be a problem with my grub.conf and I'll have things booting up smoothly soon...

 

[robmiller]

Right, I checked my grub.conf and everything's fine... what else could it be?

 

[robmiller]

Haha, weird... it just started perfectly and I have a command prompt

I'll continue then

 

[robmiller]

What settings should I use for "horizontal sync" and "vertical sync" in the xorg config when I use a TFT?

 

[cb_linus]

Originally posted by robmiller
What settings should I use for "horizontal sync" and "vertical sync" in the xorg config when I use a TFT?

Check your monitors manual is probably safest option - they should be written there or check manufacturers home page (better than guessing).

 

[robmiller]

Originally posted by cb_linus
Check your monitors manual is probably safest option - they should be written there or check manufacturers home page (better than guessing).

But I thought TFTs didn't have refresh rates?

 

[cb_linus]

They don't have refresh rates, not like crt monitors but they do have vsync & hsync. I don't know enough to be able to explain this but if you set the wrong hsync & vsync you won't be able to see the display (just get a blank screen when running your X server - or end up possibly with a damaged monitor).

 

[robmiller]

Hmmm, I have Horizontal Frequency and Vertical Frequency, but no "sync" in the manual? :/

 

[Gentwee]

Personally I use

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "Monitor0"
    HorizSync   31.5 - 91.1
    VertRefresh 20 - 60
    Option "DPMS"

on all my machines and it works fine for me.

 

[robmiller]

Will that work on a TFT though?

 

[robmiller]

Win! Got it workin - the "Scanning Frequency Range" that Hitachi use is actually the sync rates. W00t!

 

[robmiller]

Woot, posting from Gentoo ^_^ Textareas in Lynx scare me, as does compiling X.org.

 

[robmiller]

w00t! Xorg compiled, Firefox emerged and I'm home free. At the risk of a beating from Mpemba and Riven, I've opted for xfce as my WM, as it seems to be a nice balance between minimalism and the bloat of KDE

Now, how to get rid of these ugly aliased fonts...

 

[riven]

Originally posted by robmiller
w00t! Xorg compiled, Firefox emerged and I'm home free. At the risk of a beating from Mpemba and Riven, I've opted for xfce as my WM, as it seems to be a nice balance between minimalism and the bloat of KDE

Now, how to get rid of these ugly aliased fonts...

welldone. xfce is alright, i found it a bit chunky for my liking.

Xorg and fonts

From now on, almost anything you could ask is covered on the gentoo forums somewhere. its just a case of finding if.

for the link above you might need to emerge xfs and add it to you default runlevel (rc-update add xfs default)

 

[Mpemba Effect]

Good stuff mate Congratulations, it seems to have gone pretty smooth for you

 

[robmiller]

Originally posted by Mpemba Effect
Good stuff mate Congratulations, it seems to have gone pretty smooth for you

Ja, I was pretty lucky to get through the kernel compile unscathed on my first go

 

[robmiller]

Any chance of use having this as an addition to the archives for the first time in years? It'd be sad to see it pruned :/

 

[robmiller]

Quick random bump; am I ok to delete things in the /var/tmp/portage directory? It's chock-full of stuff and it's wasting my precious hard drive space