Go Team Venture!

[graafen]

I spent a good portion of last night playing around with Gentoo, almost an hour of which was spent trying to figure out why the console framebuffer wasn't working right. In the end I just removed nvidiafb (framebuffer for nVidia cards) from the kernel and used vesafb (generic framebuffer) instead, which worked fine.

Tonight I plan to at least get X, ALSA and WINE installed. I'll be happy if I can be playing EVE before the end of tonight. :)

Many thanks go out to ceralor for his advice. My linux mind was stuck in Debian mode and I was having a hard time trying to remember how Gentoo works. Thankfully it's all coming back. :D

Oh yes, my machine is now called "Mother".

P.S. Thank you Bravo for adult swim, especially The Venture Bros.

Comments

[jacel]

I imagine it's a reference to the name of the computer in the film Alien. As in my comment below c.c

If not, I'm stumped and I look stupid :D

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, could be - I never watched that one, so I'm totally ignorant. :) As usual...

[cloneboy.livejournal.com]

god bless geeks, my mate has just built his super music playing server and named it unicron.

for extra geek points why is my laptop named Eddie?

[jacel]

"Eddie's in the space-time continuum"? ;P

I imagine it's a reference to the shipboard computer aboard the Heart of Gold.

Full marks for Unicron, though :D:D:D

[cloneboy.livejournal.com]

you win the internets

his girl friend well and truly put her foot down when he tried to rename her laptop Primus

and i got it wrong, his pc is called unicron, the new server is called cybertron

[jacel]

Does that mean the PC is going to try and eat the server as soon as his back is turned?

[cloneboy.livejournal.com]

You've met Tim then?

[jacel]

Can't say I have!

Who's Tim?

[cloneboy.livejournal.com]

the man with the transformers named server. i really would not be surprised if he tried to work out a way for it to eat the other

[jacel]

Pass on a message for me? :P

Message begins:
If you do this comma please record it for posterity and giggles stop
Message ends.

[cloneboy.livejournal.com]

he is even more obsessed with giant robots than me. i enjoy megas xlr he views it as pornography