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

[jdjam001.livejournal.com]

i've tried watching The Venture Bros... haven't managed to get into it really :/

I thank Adult Swim for Robot Chicken - no TV program has made me giggle so much before ^^

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity... why "mother"? o.o

[jacel]

"Special Order 937: Install operating system. Priority One. Insure usability of Windows applications. All Other Considerations Secondary. Graphics performance expendable."

@.x

[ceralor.livejournal.com]

*bouncesqueak*

And we get Xfce installed ^^; Apparently, we need to install the older version first, log in AT LEAST ONCE with it, then log out, go back to console, unmask all the newer, and install that.

[darac.livejournal.com]

Let me guess, you're using an nVidia specific X driver? They're known to not play well with the nvidia FB driver. There's some resource that you need exclusive control over to properly use an nVidia. Thus you can't have both the Framebuffer and the X server using it.

You options are either to use the Framebuffer X driver or something like vesa-tng for your FB.

[bearknight.livejournal.com]

The Venture Bros. Best . . . show . . . EVER!

"Father?"
"Yes, Hank"
"I want to kill you. Whoa! Baby! *Jim Morrison-like screaming" *LOL*