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spur n00b
Joined: 10 Aug 2010 Posts: 5
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 12:18 pm Post subject: Generic .config for Windows compatible machines. Nomadic |
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This question is not directly Gentoo related, but I hope it is still considered relevant.
I have a "exotic" driver I want tested on several Windows compatible machines, and I was wondering if there where any tips or referals to where one might get a generic .config file that support X and OpenGL. Have tried extracting from Fedora, Knoppix and Ubuntu. Gentoo's might be usable (have not tried to extract-ikconfig from it), but have issues when it comes to using .config of older kernels, thought I suspect doing a auto merge (sequence alignment algorithm) would be sufficiant.
I want to be able to use Gentoo on any machine I happen to sitt on in stead of Windows, without using anything other then Gentoo on a tiny USB penn.
Performance is not an issue. |
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ssteinberg Apprentice
Joined: 09 Jul 2010 Posts: 206 Location: Israel
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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What is a Windows compatible machine? x86? |
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spur n00b
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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CPU Intel 386 and vga/vesa when looking back to windows 3.11 I guess. I suspect opengl and pentium came at about the same time. |
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spur n00b
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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@ssteinberg Um, are you looking for a livecd? You can install Gentoo from any livecd. Livecd just need the basic hardware drivers. I like the minimum ubuntu livecd. It only takes ~11MB and downloads the necessary drivers on boot (except network obviously). Provides only a commandline thought.
Love that Gentoo livecd come with ssh (/etc/init.d/sshd start). |
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