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]

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

@.x

[graafen]

The framebuffer is mostly used for making the console look nice, so overall it's not important right now. I'll probably go back to it later and see if I can get the nvidiafb working.

The meat and two veg of graphics will come into play when I install X tonight, and for that I will be getting as much graphical performance out of it as possible. :P

[jacel]

Fully aware of the above. I was just trying to geek points and giggles ;)

[graafen]

I missed that reference. x.x

[ralesk.livejournal.com]

You mean "wait for a day and a half until X compiles and then bitch if it doesn't" :)))