Hi all, after I've solved my make.conf problems (with your help :-)) I've begun the long, long world compilation. My little k6-2 @ 475 mhz with 192 mb ram laptop has exited from stage 1 on sunday, exited from building X on tuesday and from tuesday it's still compiling kde (!). With only fews and quickly stops: is it normal? Well, but my problem is that on console 2, while on console 1 kde was growing, I've begun to play with the kernel conf file. In fact when I've compiled my gentoo kernel for the first time, I must have mistaken something in the usb configuration, since my laptop's external usb mouse won't work. Therefore I've stopped the kde compiling process and I've started a new kernel compilation. However when I've rebooted the laptop I still have had the some problems with framebuffer described before: my screen has gone out of sync. Panic. Then I've rebooted my laptop from live-cd and then mounted my root partition under /gentoo as I did during installation process. After this, I did: # chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash # env-update # source /etc/profile and I've tried to recompile my kernel. During this new compilation process I've received strange messages about skew clock and date in the future. I suppose it's caused by gmt/local date settings: my system is configured with "local" setting, and live cd system perhaps is gmt. However, after compilation of the new kernel (without framebuffer), I have given a cp from ..../arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot, but when I've rebooted I've obtained the same blank screen problem I've had before. I've realized that, perhaps, my mistake was that I've forgotten to mount the /boot partition (correct?). So I've rebooted one more time, followed all steps that I've described before plus mounting the boot partition. Because of the late time, I've preferred to send back the compilation of kernel and to resume with kde. And now, while I'm writing, my laptop still compiling kde. I hope you will excuse me for this long description, I step now to the questions: When I boot my machine I'd like to have the same nice resolution and gentoo logo of live-cd. How can I obtain it? I'd like to have the same autoconfig and hardware recognition features too, so how can I set my kernel as the live-cd kernel? What's about lilo.conf? I've tried a lot of settings and played with vga entry, but without success. I've readed the manual for lilo but it didn't help. Is it correct to continue the kde compilation under the live cd ambient? Naturally after the chroot procedure that I've described. I've a logitec usb wireless mouse. It works fine with live cd, but what I've lost in my own kernel configuration to abtain it to works? What's about the skew time messages? How can configure correctly my date/time while I'm under live-cd rescue? In the past, I've got a lot of problems with modules configuration, so I prefer to have all compiled directly into the kernel: is it too heavy for my laptop? Because one time I've received a message from lilo about the "too big dimensions" of the kernel? Finally, how can I recover correctly and fastly all this situation once that the compilation of kde will be finished? Still sorry for the lenght and confusion of this message. I hope in your aid. Thanks Stefano -- stefano (stefanoceci.it) openyourmindopenyoursource
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