It's been a while since I've posted about my adventures in installing Gentoo Linux on my laptop. I now have things working fairlly well, with a few exceptions. (go figure). I got the nVidia drivers to install properly and give me my optimum resolution of 1400x1050, much better than the 1024x768 I was working with for a while. I also now have ACPI working, at least the battery charge applet and other tools like that, but I haven't played around with the software suspend yet.
I also successfully installed Oracle 9i client. This was a surprise to me since I couldn't even install it that easily on Red Hat, which is Oracle certified! I had absolutely no problems and everything is working well. Now, if I wanted to run the DB on my laptop, that would be a different story according to the Gentoo forums. But I don't need the DB, only the client :)
The only thing that I am having issues with is the ARTS library for KDE. Seems that WINE and TOra both want this library, and can't get that to compile. I have searched the forums for the error that I am getting and they all basically say that the GLibC patch that just came out breaks a lot of stuff. The solution, re-emerge GCC. What fun. So I am waiting around for that to finish compiling now. I also found other steps that need to be taken because of my nVidia card but once I get this installed successfully, I'll post a mini HOWTO on that.
Posted by doug at January 26, 2004 12:41 PMthat laptop is quite pretty looking these days.
Posted by: john at February 2, 2004 12:41 PMit's amazing what a useable/stable OS will do to a computer. :) I just wonder why people don't want to take the time to learn to use this. Especially IT managers and help-desk people/support staff.
Posted by: doug at February 2, 2004 01:40 PM