Thanks. If the card doesn't work then I'll mail it to:

The Guy Who Helped Me Where There Are Not Kangaroos

You can't set dma through hdparm?
I have the A7N8X and I have a strange dma issue as well but I can always set it using hdparm once it boots up.

Okay cool. Right now I have this in XF86Config:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"
VideoRam 32768
EndSection


The FX5950 has 256mb of ram so I would change VideoRam 32768 to VideoRam 256000 right ...

Hey folks. I just ordered the Nvidia GeForce FX5950 Ultra and I'm really excited. I have a rather silly question though. I currently have an old Nvidia card running and I used the nvidia-kernel build for the drivers. My question is, is it necessary to re-emerge these drivers once I install the new ...

Thank you.

hmmm...one more question which may be a little silly. My /etc/conf.d/hdparm script looks like this:

# Copyright 2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/hdparm/files/hdparm-conf.d,v 1.1 ...

Success! It seams that the issue was with libfam all along. I remember running into problems with a libfam update before.

Thank you everyone for your help.

Heres the last few lines before it dies:

grep: /usr/local/lib/libfam.la: No such file or directory
/bin/sed: can't read /usr/local/lib/libfam.la: No such file or directory
libtool: link: `/usr/local/lib/libfam.la' is not a valid libtool archive
make[3]: *** [kded_favicons.la] Error 1
make[3 ...

I used the pentium3 livecd. I may just have to try the x86 generic cd. Thanks.

I started with a new install from stage 3 on an old 500mhz Pentium machine. I went to use nano to try and edit some conf files but it just died saying:

"Illegal Instruction"

I didn't get upset because I don't use nano. I wrote it off. Now I've emerged grub and after typing 'grub' to setup the ...

Okay I haven't had any luck with this. Any applcation that is remotely related to kde fails to compile as well. I've tried re-emerging libsdl. I've tried re-emerging every version of autoconf and automake. I've tried emerging in this order:

- Emerge qt-3.3.0
- Emerge arts
- Emerge kdelibs ...

Okay I tried this and it did not work as well. emerge kdebase re-install autoconf and causes the same error.

Can't we get an official answer on this bug?

I did a search and found a lot about kde 3.2 but I couldn't find anything like this. When I try to update kde it fails with this:

configure: error: you need to install kdelibs first.
died running ./configure, kde_src_compile:configure
*
* Your KDE program installation died while running the ...

Okay I may be on to something here. From other posts I've read it seems that /etc/devfsd.conf may have something to do with the problem. What is devfs? Maybe my conf file got messed up when I used etc-update.

I've been running the 2.6 kernel with the Andrew Mortenson patch set for a few months now(mm-sources). Everything has worked fine. It has to do with changing one of the .conf files after running etc-update. Which file is the question.

I remember one of the conf files changed was in /etc/modules ...

If dmesg shows it as /dev/hdc shouldn't their actually be a /dev/hdc? I'm really confused. Perhaps I need a module loaded or something?

Sorry forgot about that. This is all it mentions about the cdrom drive:

Yes I'm passing:

hdc=ide-scsi

as a kernel boot parameter. Their is no /dev/sr0 either.

#ls -al /dev/ | grep hd
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 32 Feb 11 03:27 hda -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Feb 11 03:27 hda1 -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Feb 11 03:27 hda2 -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Feb 11 ...

Well, after I ran an update on a few things and changed my configuration files I came to find upon reboot that /dev/cdrom was a dead link. Its been working for about 3 months now with this kernel. Apparently etc-update messed up one of the config files.

dmesg shows that my cdrom drive is detected ...

So I don't need to add mysql support to apache via the mysql USE flag? Also that guide does not talk about installing mysql. Is mysql simply:

emerge mysql

?

Hello folks. I wanted to setup my desktop machine as a LAMP server so I could test some php applications that I'm writing. I'm very confused as to what exactly I have to emerge and what USE flags I need to use to get everything going. Of course I'm going to need to emerge httpd,php, and mysql but ...

If their was any doubt as to move to 2.6 from 2.4, this article should persuade you to go 2.6.

Okay so the next question is what needs to be developed specificly? Is their a page that has project listings?

I just started using Gentoo about 3 months ago after being a RedHat user for quite some time. I really love the distro and would love to help out in any way possible.

I read the documentation for developers but I didn't see any where how to help out exactly.