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ckiraly
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 Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 2:30 am Post subject: What's Next??? |
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Ok...
So now I have a base Gentoo system up and running (with one minor flaw - I'm using reiserfs, and when each drive mounts, it says that dma is turned off and it might be slow - how do I turn it on?)...
But now, what do I want to do?
What I mean is, is there a doc or something that talks about options or installing X, or window manager, or kde, etc?
My main system at home is Fedora 2. I wanted to install Gentoo because...
A) I wanted to learn about installing Linux, not just using an automated installer. I feel I now know way more about the Linux on my laptop (where I'm testing Gentoo) than I do my main box.
B) Fedora just installs way too much junk. I have so much stuff on my main box, I don't even know how to get rid of it. It also seems somewhat klunky, and considering I have a p4 2.67 ghz machine with 1gb of ram - Linux should not be klunky, but to me it is...
However, the problem I have with Gentoo is not knowing what's next? Is there some documentation discussing different options (like if I want to test apache or php or mysql), or a desktop manager, etc...?
Any info would be useful!
Thanks in Advance...
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TheRAt
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About your DMA problem,
1. run lspci to see what devices you have on your motherboard
2. look in Device Drivers >> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support and make sure you have added support for your chipset and/or IO controller.
3. Look in your bios,for some stupid reason some OEM's (which I wont name) Disable it by dEfauLt which is pretty Lame. |
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pjp
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Moved from Installing Gentoo.
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ckiraly
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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2. look in Device Drivers >> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support and make sure you have added support for your chipset and/or IO controller.
3. Look in your bios,for some stupid reason some OEM's (which I wont name) Disable it by dEfauLt which is pretty Lame.
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I looked in the kernel - and those chipsets are turned on properly and DMA is turned on -
but for some reason, when I boot, it isn't turned on when it mounts the drives... |
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ckiraly
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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i tried doing the following:
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hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda
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it responded with the following:
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/dev/hda
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA falied: Operation not permitted
using_dma = 0 (off)
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does that provide any useful info? |
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psyqil
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