[Wlug] It boots. Now what?

[John Stoffel]

ken> I would like to get X11 services.  I did an "emerge xterm".  Here's what 
ken> happened.


ken> ------------start snip-------------
ken> (chroot) livecd proc # emerge xterm
ken> Calculating dependencies |
ken> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=x11-proto/xproto-7.0.6" have been 
ken> masked.
ken> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your 
ken> request:
ken> - x11-proto/xproto-7.0.7 (masked by: ~sparc keyword)
ken> - x11-proto/xproto-7.0.10 (masked by: ~sparc keyword)
ken> - x11-proto/xproto-7.0.9 (masked by: ~sparc keyword)

ken> For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
ken> refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
ken> (dependency required by "x11-libs/libX11-1.1.1-r1" [ebuild])
ken> --------------end snip----------

ken> What do I make of this?

It looks to me like you've turned off X11 support into your Gentoo
config file(s) somewhere.  I haven't used Gentoo in years and years,
but I remember there was some place to set up defaults.

In this case, you could also just try doing:

	emerge x11-libs

and see what happens.  Hmmm... google is your friend here.  Look at
/etc/portage/packages* and add or remove the lines which are blocking
the X11 install.  

ken> Another problem.  My livecd prompt and my chroot prompt both see
ken> my ethernet card, eth0.  However my new boot does not see the
ken> card.  Ideas?

Send the output of dmesg after boot from both a working and
non-working setup.  Sounds to me like you haven't compiled the proper
driver in your kernel for the hardware.

John