well, i "fixed" this simply by emerging xf86-video-vesa, reconfiguring xorg.conf to reflect that and trying again.

i'm not sure what i'm losing by going with generic vesa rather than the actual i810 driver that's supposed to work, but at least it's working.

no problem at all, albright - it's often the obvious stuff we miss. in this case, however, i did have xf86-video-i810 installed, and even after a reemerge, it's no joy.

appreciate the suggestion however.

hi there - trying to get Gentoo installed on my new Thinkpad x60s, and after compiling X 7.0-r3, i think, i'm unable to startx.

while everything compiled fine, i'm getting an error when i run startx and in /var/log/Xorg.0.log that says "No Screen Found".

i've run through several different ...

gotta love this place, where people try to beat each other with accurate replies. just awesome.

you rock, Dryre. that did it. i'm now able to boot.

thx much Dryre and mdeininger - much appreciated. [/url]

and here's lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel ...

got it. here's the .config:

#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
# Linux kernel version: 2.6.16-gentoo-r6
# Tue Jul 18 05:19:49 2006
#
CONFIG_X86_32=y
CONFIG_SEMAPHORE_SLEEPERS=y
CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_MMU=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y
CONFIG_ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC=y ...

thx for the reply, mdeininger.

i do have the scsi-disk driver compiled directly into the kernel, and the filesystem drivers are also compiled directly rather than as modules.

will try and post the lspci and .config files, but i'm having some trouble SSHing into the box to get them out. it logs ...

trying to install Gentoo on top of a brand new Lenovo Thinkpad x60s. having been successfull in installing it on two previous X series Thinkpads, an x23 and an x40, i didn't anticipate much difficulty.

but after having completed the install, i've run into a problem getting it to boot the root FS ...

if it helps at all, it's erroring out consistently (2 times so far) at the same point:
also, no errors had been hit so far - they typically come after 20 GBs, at least when i've used dd.

you rock phorn. i'm an idiot for assuming the dd_rescue syntax was the same, but i appreciate you not saying so ;)

anyhow, this command failed:

dd_rescue /dev/hda4 /mnt/apone/hda4.iso

with a but with a simple sudo:

sudo dd_rescue /dev/hda4 /mnt/apone/hda4.iso

the transfer began just fine ...

that was it, zbs - thx so much for the tip.

by correcting the name of the share, i was successfully able to mount the remote samba dir via the command:

sudo mount -t smbfs //192.168.2.4/sogjr_recovery /mnt/apone -o username=sog,uid=hs_int1023,gid=samba

that's the good news. the bad news is ...

ok, got the knoppix CD down via bittorrent, but it seems as if dd_rescue is considerably less tolerant of piping things through ssh than plain old dd is.

it keeps telling me that i need to specify input and output files, although it does appear to complete the ssh connection because i'm prompted ...

first download of knoppix just hung, not 40 MB's from completion. trying again.

crap. i thought i was golden with troymc's instructions, but no joy.

his help was just what i needed (thanks troymc) - i was able to easily pipe the dd output to the other machine via ssh - but during the dd i got bad block reads.

might have to go w/ Nucleus' Kernel for Reiser now.

does anyone ...

ah, i thought it might be something like that, in spite of what the ulimit returned. will have to find a way around this.

will the dd command work with network drives, because that'll be easier than finding another external drive with a real FS

as covered in another thread ( http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-470291-highlight-.html ), i've somehow corrupted my main partition (reiserfs) and am currently unable to access the information.

one recommendation has been to dd the entire drive to another storage source straight up or as a .iso ...

ok, i've toned down my ambitions: now i'd just like to extract whatever information i can from the corrupted reiser volume.

any idea how i might do that? trying to boot into Linux causes kernel panic, and i can't mount the volume to chroot into it.

the data, however, is clearly still there. the ...

unfortunately, that didn't work for me. i ran it, and got the following:

bread: Cannot read the block (5549459): (Input/Output error).

The problem has occured looks like a hardware problem. If you have bad blocks, we advise you to get a new hard drive, because once you get one bad block that the ...

ok, had a bit of a time b/c i somehow did not have reiser4progs installed, but got that in and ran reiserfsck.

unfortunately, i'm getting an error that says:

Partition /dev/hda4 is mounted with write permissions, cannot check it

to mount it, i just booted using the live disk, then did a ...

i am indeed. let me try doing just that.

one additional bit of info - it's not a hard drive problem, or at least not one that affects the non-Linux partitions. i can log in successfully to the Windows partition on the same machine.

i'm really hoping someone will say you're not screwed.

really hoping someone can help here. after a forced hard reset of my Thinkpad x40 (X locked up), i find that i'm no longer able to boot.

after progressing part way through the boot sequence, i'm getting an error that says:

/etc/init.d/bootmisc: line 61: 3752 segmentation fault rm -f "${x}"

any ...

think i've figured it out. temporarily giving up on Banshee, i installed gtkpod and had it try to read my ipod database - it failed, because it was looking at /mnt/ipod rather than /dev/sda2 where it was. after doing a

mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod

and reloading Banshee, i can now see my ipod ...

i've got the same problem as wo7ke. i started here ( http://patches.ximian.com/Troubleshooting/iPod ), but my iPod passes all those tests just fine.

i have two nodes in hal-device-manager as mentioned, ipod --list gives me the following:

glibtop: This machine has 1 CPUs, 1 are being monitored ...