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Get your internet connection going and let urpmi do the job or search for the missing packages at rpm.pbone.net and install them manually.

This happens because you are lacking certain packages that are used by Celestia, XMMS etc. Login as root. type 'su' (without quotes) in a console then your root password and you are root :D yup. When you build a program from source. rpms don't need that. Get your internet connection going, set up your rpm mirrors and use urpmi to install stuff. urpmi downloads, fixes dependency issues etc so you don't have to. Go here: easyurpmi.zarb.org to set up your mirrors.

I'm also using gcc 3.3.4 in Gentoo. I don't think it would do any harm to MDK. Just do an urpmi install and see what happens.

OMG !!! I've recently installed Gentoo and I had to build everything from source including Firefox. I felt that it was faster than in MDK but I did no benchmarking. After running your test, daniewicz, I found this surprising result. My custom built Gentoo Firefox is 3 times faster than the stock MDK one !! :woot_jump:

Well, that would be easy but I need to do it from the CLI.

Well, I was thinking about shorewall. I just want to do some simple routing that's all. I'm not interested for now in complicated stuff. They have an overwhealming tutorial at shorewall.net but I don't have the time to read all that. I just want to make the server offer Internet access (instant messaging, http, https, ftp, irc) to the LAN computers. BTW, the server has 2 NICs: one connected to the modem and the other to the LAN switch. Internet <-> ISP <-> Cable Modem <-> Server <-> LAN. I've searched with google but I can't find any good tutorial that would help me.

Definitely. ;) Don't worry, I had bad experiences with compiling source in Mandrake but that didn't stopped me from doing a stage2 Gentoo install. B) As SoulSe told me, all compile errors are fixable. I'm sure you'll dump windows soon because you see, Linux is like a drug, you try it once than you can't abandon it forever even if you wanted to.

THX. I still have a lot of stuff to install though :D I believe I'll enjoy Gentoo since I'm a perfectionist (but not an obsessive one :P).

After 2 nights of downloading and compiling sources I finally have a Gnome desktop. I downloaded all the sources I need, all I have to do now is compile OO, XMMS, MPlayer and other things. I have to say that I'm really impressed. My system is much faster now. I think that the aggressive flags contributed a lot to this but also the 2.9.10-nitro2 kernel :D. My MDK installation was also very useful, providing important configuration files such as: fstab, smb.conf and xorg.conf. I'm going to keep both distros for now.

The title says it all. Does anybody know a really good one ?

Thx, it seems that the solution was very simple but now I'm facing ALSA trouble. emerge --oneshot libtool I'll go searching again ........

Ok .. But now I have a problem. I want to install links but emerge gives this error: >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking ttmkfdir-3.0.9.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r2/work [32;01m*[0m Applying ttmkfdir-3.0.9-cpp.patch ... [A[73G [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m [32;01m*[0m Applying ttmkfdir-3.0.9-zlib.patch ... [A[73G [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m [32;01m*[0m Applying ttmkfdir-3.0.9-gcc34.patch ... [A[73G [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m [32;01m*[0m Applying ttmkfdir-3.0.9-encoding.patch ... [A[73G [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m [32;01m*[0m Applying ttmkfdir-3.0.9-freetype_new_includes.patch ... [A[73G [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m >>> Source unpacked. libtool --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -Wall -pedantic -I/usr/include/freetype2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -o ttmkfdir.o -c ttmkfdir.cpp libtool --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -Wall -pedantic -I/usr/include/freetype2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -o directory.o -c directory.cpp libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag' make: *** [ttmkfdir.o] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag' make: *** [directory.o] Error 1 !!! ERROR: x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 44, Exitcode 2 !!! emake failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. (lol)

It's done. :D I loaded a module and that fixed the problem. So I decided to build it into the kernel. I recompiled the kernel, reinstalled it etc. After reboot I got the same error. So I recompiled the kernel again and modularized the driver and now it works. Why didn't it function when it was built in the kernel ?

Ok, as long as it boots as fast (or faster) then the stock MDK kernel it's allright. The problem is that I get these errors when the kernel tries to bring eth0 up (even with the noapic etc options): SIOCSIFADDR: NO SUCH DEVICE eth0: unknown interface: No such device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: NO SUCH DEVICE eth0: unknown interface: No such device SIOCSINETMASK: NO SUCH DEVICE *ERROR: Problem starting needed service *netmount was not started What's the cause of this ?

OK, my Gentoo system is up and running but there are some issues .... It's still bare bones. I need to install Gnome, OpenOffice and a lot of other stuff. I'm a bit disappointed by the kernel. The stock MDK kernel (2.6.8.1-20) is 1.2MB but my 2.6.9 nitro-kernel is 2.5 mb !! Why is it so fat ? I didn't put a lot if things in it. Oh, and it won't bring eth0 up. It gives some weird errors when it tries to. I'll give it the noapic nolapic acpi=off options to see if it works like that. I have to mention that the Gentoo handbook is very well made and easy to understand. All aspects were well documented although the installation took a lot of time. Installing Gentoo is still not something for the faint hearted....

Ok, everything is set. All I have to do now is build the system and the kernel and make the config files. I have another question. Do I have to specifically set all the USE flags from /usr/gentoo/portage/profiles/use.desc in make.conf ? What is the default action ? I mean, if I don't specify any flag regarding kde and qt what happens when a program is compiled ? Is kde & qt support enabled or disabled ?

I want to experiment with another distro so I decided to install Gentoo. Things seem clear till now but I have 2 questions: Do I really need a boot partition ? What architecture should I choose, i686 or athlon-xp ? My CPU is Athlon XP 1800+ but if I type uname -m I get i686. I wish a Happy, Peaceful and Prosperous New Year to everybody ! :D

Now I have swap. Thx.

Cuz I want the latest, bleeding edge software. When 10.2 CE gets released, no more Cooker or other unofficial sources for me. I'll become a good normal person :lol: . The will to live is the seed of all evil as Kant said. :P

I don't have a Linux swap partition and I decided to make one. I ran mkswap on it. Now I want it to be mounted automatically in fstab. I added this line to fstab but it won't work. I think my syntax is wrong. /dev/hda7 /mnt/swap swap swap defaults 0 0

The same thing (Cooker upgrade) made the MDK menu disappear for me again. I thought it had somthing to do with the thac packages. :D. As you know, I had 2 menu entries now I'm stuck with that awful FUBAR one . I'll try to remove as much as possible then.

Anyway, since I'm aesthetically obsessed I want to get rid of that awful menu. I decided to reinstall Gnome in order to resolve the problem. I just can't stand it anymore. What packages and folders should I remove to make sure that ugly menu is gone forever ? Are the ones listed in rpmdrake - mandrake choices - gnome workstation enough (except the irrelevant ones that are also listed there) ?

Hey, the gpw packages were good. Thac's packages ruined the menu. So this is what I get if I run the proper command (rpm -qa | grep thac): [root@Alex root]# rpm -qa | grep thac libcrack2-2.7-19.mdk10.1.thac flex-2.5.4a-25.mdk10.1.thac libxklavier-data-1.11-0.2.mdk10.1.thac NVIDIA_kernel-2.6.8.1-12mdk-1.0-6629.1thac dctc-0.85.9-3thac zenity-2.9.0-0.2.mdk10.1.thac liblame0-3.96.1-3.mdk10.1.thac gnome-icon-theme-2.9.1-0.2.mdk10.1.thac libflac6-1.1.1-2.mdk10.1.thac file-roller-2.9.0-0.2.mdk10.1.thac libwxgtk2.5_3-2.5.3-2.mdk10.1.thac liboggflac1-1.1.1-2.mdk10.1.thac cdrecord-2.01-2.mdk10.1.thac libjack0-0.99.10-0411116.1.mdk10.1.thac gnome-doc-utils-0.1-4.mdk10.1.thac docbook-style-dsssl-1.79-2.mdk10.1.thac libxklavier9-1.11-0.2.mdk10.1.thac libpanel-applet-2_0-2.9.1-0.2.mdk10.1.thac dc_gui2-0.80-3thac libsoup-2.2_7-2.2.1-2.mdk10.1.thac gedit-2.9.1-0.2.mdk10.1.thac gnome-terminal-2.9.1-0.2.mdk10.1.thac libaa1-1.4.0-0.rc5.13.mdk10.1.thac wxGTK2.5-2.5.3-2.mdk10.1.thac mkisofs-2.01-2.mdk10.1.thac libsndfile1-1.0.11-2.mdk10.1.thac libmetacity-private0-2.9.0-0.2.mdk10.1.thac gnome-utils-2.9.0-0.2.mdk10.1.thac libflac++4-1.1.1-2.mdk10.1.thac cracklib-dicts-2.7-19.mdk10.1.thac metacity-2.9.0-0.2.mdk10.1.thac [root@Alex root]# urpme libcrack2 NVIDIA_kernel unknown package: NVIDIA_kernel [root@Alex root]# :ph34r:

That's what I feel. They advance too slow, way to slow. I see no difference between versions 2.4 and 2.9 - nothing noticeable. Maybe some tiny bugfixes and thats it. Oh and one more thing. I officialy declare that I hate their stupid menu structure. I had that in my mind too, but it's not worth the effort. The first advantage for Linux is that there is more software available for it than for OSX. And besides I can't run winblows on a G5. I'm not a hardcore gamer but there are some games I like to play and not all can be emulated with Cedega. I'll download and check the stuff you pointed out. edit; Man, that's great stuff, thx. :D

OK, no problem :D . Sharing is good. I thought that the settings from /etc/X11/xorg.conf were ok but a suggestion to check that file out came to my head (finally!!). I checked all the settings and I noticed that the driver was nv not nvidia ! I changed it to nvidia and that was it, problem solved :D. I'll give KC another whirl soon.