Am Dienstag, den 20.09.2005, 08:12 +0200 schrieb Bob Alexander: > Dear friends, > trying out Gentoo after many years (mostly) on Debian. > > Q1) I wanted to use the swsusp2 patch to the kernel. emerged a package > and in fact it was an entirely new kernel tree with the patches > included. The swsusp2 patches are not at the latest level and I am > having problems (kernel oops) with this when suspending. What is the > correct way to deinstall this second kernel tree, obtain the swsusp2 > patches only (I would know how to do that manually of course). > > Q2) I now have a nice bootsplash upon booting but the shutdown process > is not shown (black screen and then poweroff). What's up ? > > Q3) When emerging packages I get a message saying something like /etc 42 > files need fixing (or similar do not have the machine here to try). What > should I actually do ? Why this message ?
I guess you have to run etc-update here. Some emerged packages would like to change certain /etc files (i.e. configurations). etc-update will let you do that in a more or less save way. > > Thank you very much, > Bob > -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Heinz Sporn SPORN it-freelancing Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.sporn-it.com Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 A-4540 Bad Hall Austria / Europe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list