[H-GEN] [followup] Re: X locks up desktop, even with live cds

[Troy Piggins]

* Troy Piggins is quoted & my replies are inline below :
> * Anthony Irwin is quoted & my replies are inline below :
> > Troy Piggins wrote:
> > 
> >> Unfortunately you can't install from the
> >> AMD64 minimal live cd!  The main difference I can tell is that
> >> the Gentoo wasn't running X, it was all console.
> >> 
> >> Am I missing anything?  The graphics card is Nvidia 256Mb 6800GT
> >> (or something like that).  I have always had success with nvidia
> >> cards and linux, installing the distros own drivers, then once
> >> working use nvidias own binaries.
> >> 
> >> What can I do to trace the source of the problem?
> > 
> > I had a similar problem about 6 or 7 years ago with a nvidia riva tnt 
> > card. The card worked fine for some things and not others. I ended up 
> > switching it with a card I had in another computer that I didn't use 
> > much and everything then worked fine.
> > 
> > Like you said above nvidia cards normally work flawlessly with linux 
> > and they even produce their own drivers for the accelerated graphics 
> > so I would say that the first thing to check is the graphics card itself.
> > 
> > Maybe your card has a slight fault that doesn't like the way X handles 
> > the graphics. If you have another card you could try swapping it and 
> > see if you get the same results.
> 
> Thanks Anthony.  I've downloaded and burned the Gentoo install CD
> at work.  I'll give it a go tonight.  If not successful, I'll
> try other scenarios.  Spewing - that card has been great for
> games in Windows.

Just to followup:

Running Gentoo as a livecd works fine.  I can get network, internet,
x windows works fine.  No dramas.

Installed Gentoo fine. X windows runs and no lockups like other
installations.  However...  I can't get the network up.  If it's not
one thing, it's the other.

On the livecd I need to either run the gui netword config to
statically assign ip address, or use ifconfig.  But that gets it up
and running.

On the install, ifconfig command is not found.  The gui network
config program sees eth0, but won't let me configure it.

I'm still playing with it to get it working.

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