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Gentoo Linux - odd startup bug

Discussion in 'Techno-Magic' started by Disciple of The Watch, Feb 4, 2007.

  1. Disciple of The Watch

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    I decided to give Gentoo a shot, and got my bro to download the LiveCD ISO (2006.1, 64bit edition) for me and burn it on a CD.

    So, all is well, I pop the CD into my laptop, and boot on the LiveCD - there's some loading, and when the comp's done with the loading, my screen goes black, just like it fell in standby mode.

    I've tried it on my X2, and it's the same story. I thought maybe the desktop resolution is too high for my screen to handle, and I have yet to find a way to fix that. I suppose some X reconfiguration could be the answer, but I can't do that unless I install the system, and with that problem, how am I supposed to do it?
     
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    Does Gentoo offer a a startup option to disable advanced power management, like "acpi=off"? I had some trouble installing Ubuntu in one of the PCs at work until I used this argument.
     
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    Disabling ACPI worked on my laptop, but not on my X2. I've tried it on the comps at school, and on my bro's, and they all work fine, so I suspect it's somewhat related to my screen - LG Flatron T710BH.

    Gentoo detects it as a Generic Monitor, don't know if it matters the slightest.

    *shrugs* While we're at it, you wouldn't happen to know how to configure a damn ADSL connection in Fedora core 6, would you? adsl-setup doesen't work (invalid command), and I have yet to find Internet Druid.
     
    Disciple of The Watch, Feb 6, 2007
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    Afraid not. I've only started playing around with Ubuntu and SuSe at work myself.
     
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    I have succesfully got a PPPoE connection working on Fedora... I was barking up the wrong tree and looking at the wrong place.

    I found the holy grail of Internet connections in "Network Settings".

    :doh: :doh: :doh: :doh:

    As for Gentoo, my monitor is clearly the cause, but I'm still clueless as to how to solve the darn problem. :mad: :mad: :mad:
     
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