[SWLUG] Cardiff Gentoo Users

[Pete Prior]

Try booting with pci=noacpi noapic.

IRQ routing problems can sometimes cause devices not to appear or be 
detected.  Giving us your dmesg output would be useful too.

Pete

Kris Zani wrote:
> OK have been trying the various suggestions.
> USB Mouse.  I saw a debian post on the net where dmesg registered the 
> fact that a mouse was connected to the usb hub so I assumed that was 
> standard.  Tried the cat /dev/input/mice command.  No registered input 
> from the usb mouse only from the synaptics keypad so that's obviously 
> not working.
> 
> Back to that later.  Lets get the sound first.
> 
> have now compiled everything "soundy" as modules. Located the alsa howto 
> on the gentoo site and followed it through. had some problems with 
> alsaconf not finding my sound card properly came up as snd-***Error 
> something or other in some .c file.
> 
> changed that to snd-ali5451 as this is the driver from lspci.
> 
> did the rest but still no sound.  Bugger!!
> 
> dmesg still states no sound cards found. Any ideas?
> but does state some kobject_register failed for snd-**** (-17)
> 
> where ** is each of my sound modules in turn
> 
> would have attached my kernel config and my dmesg output but apparently 
> none of my usb stuff is working as I don't have access to my usb pen 
> drive anymore.
> 
> Never mind, gonna switch to debian or FC4.   might come back to gentoo 
> on my main pc.  Less problems with a proper PC laptops, gentoo and me 
> still not compatible
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Kris
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