hi again,
ok i forgot to mention that on my desktop-pc i have a debian-linux running, so gentoo is not my very first linux i try to install (and that debian works very well, except for a little soundproblem with X, but thats another story ^^).
Still, i admit it is a large step from debian to gentoo, and i dont expect to get all working over night. but i am very interested in gentoo (or generally in the concept of compiling my OS myself), and also if it takes more time, i want to do it to the bitter end
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but this problem with my graphics card, isnt it a general problem which i would also encounter if i had installed another distri?
by the way i tried installing the ati-drivers from the portage system of gentoo yesterday, but i got an error always: "doins fglrx failed". i googled for this error and there were some paople who encountered the same error, and as i understood it may have to with the kernel- and the ati driver versions. in the portage-tree there is ati-drivers version 8.21.7-r1, which is a little older i think, since the latest driver on ati.com is 8.28.8 ...
when i do "emerge ati-drivers" before i get the error "doins flgrx failed" there are lots of warnings about "incompatible pointer-type"... (sorry this is only my translation of it, because the errors are in german... maybe i should set my locales to english ^^) and then:
installing fglrx module
install: call of stat for fglrx not possible: cannot find file or directory (freely translated)
call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1539: called dyn_install
ebuild.sh, line 1013: called src_install
ati-drivers-8.21.7-r1.ebuild, line 182: called linux-mod_src_install
linux-mod.eclass, line 497: called die
maybe this helps to find the problem...
oh and another thing: when i boot the kernel i pass this additional parameters:
video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap,1024x768-32@60
i think it is only for the console-framebuffer, i took it from the install-guide for gentoo
could this cause some trouble with xorg?
thanx for help