From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NZ8Ej-0004T7-V6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:35:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B729E0974; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:34:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f174.google.com (mail-px0-f174.google.com [209.85.216.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 306D3E0974 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:34:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi4 with SMTP id 4so1922324pxi.32 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:34:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=v8lmu0ZD/xgx35ly1YHMDIU35uiBVKhnAI+glp6K+9U=; b=Wl5ENgKnWsA6eZTCh5NRwU5TKgUcRDf4rVI7iaZJ1zXwG+YVQjtU0tySF0X8KHYnLp NT02s2eAQgtXG6H/qC4w021KfJFAQ4zseokhN9Dy2gb9oHi9p9s++bsUgBD8Eg2YyssX gtRomL8bGD24rfhv+wjGRQOpy3NfSqIkbihsw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=bly294SAWqiwIS5h8fenMnAE2XsxfKSethqK3zBapArMWjAnJAPtXy6g1pV1XFqIVX keI7R1vwpErSlqUboJC1YSWI630IEB/Dch4tXDo6c+L1BDX00tnXYB2SXlNWQio1c0ds oAiFw4wC3+qOdjlfh6xnVeIvLK7Q6sMgSSflM= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.8.33 with SMTP id 33mr3880099wfh.70.1264361663785; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:34:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <5bdc1c8b1001241051u43415a3wf4169e6f07af295a@mail.gmail.com> <1264359972.31671.2.camel@oddman.donahues.us.> <5bdc1c8b1001241115m544e3f76g3af8b63a17ce1615@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:34:23 -0800 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b1001241134w142c8a4fx6463e9f066af81b3@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: xorgconfig? From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6a5b255e-21be-46cc-81b1-5419382b4366 X-Archives-Hash: 25042b6bccc36966b264ad63968c3aa7 On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote= : > On 01/24/2010 09:15 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Drake Donahue >> =C2=A0wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 10:51 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >>>> >>>> Did xorgconfig go away? >>>> >>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml gives a pretty up to date >>> status. You might want to go with the flow (dbus,hal,udev) vice swimmin= g >>> upstream. >>> >> >> Thanks. Yeah, I've just installed hal and started down that path but >> it isn't work. With hal coming out of xorg-server in the near future I >> was trying to see if I could just get X working by hand. I'm very, >> very, very frustrated with this new motherboard right now. After days >> the machine isn't usable and I'm running out of energy. > > What doesn't work exactly? I apologize at the outset. I'm ranting. I know it. I'm sorry in advance. Please everyone, please accept my apologies. Unable to run any sort of X so far. I've tried make.conf two ways and then maybe 50 recompiles of the kernel with different things on and off. VIDEO_CARDS=3D"intel vesa fbdev" VIDEO_CARDS=3D"intelvesa" In the first method when I boot if I have KMS_HELPERS enabled in the kernel then the screen goes black at the udev step during boot and I have to ssh in to reboot the machine. I can stop that by adding i915.modeset=3D0 to the boot command line. However when I try to start X it complains about a bunch of things, but the first one is that there are no monitors attached to the VGA ports. The VGA in this thing is part of the Intel chipset, it's a new chipset, and from the Intel-graphics email list it sort of sounds like I'm one of the first folks to pop up using it for Linux outside of maybe some core group at Intel. I don't know and please excuse my frustration. I tried get-edid | parse-edid and the monitors are there so I don't know why they shouldn't be recognized. I've just tried turning on hal and am trying to figure out how to make the system do vesa instead of native Intel. However this is the problem with hal and stupid people like me. It doesn't give me a choice. If I had xorgconfig I had hoped I could just choose it and make a xorg.conf file but no such luck. I've tried lots of other things. On the vesa front right now it's complaining it cannot find an i810 driver when before it was trying to use an i915 driver. Maybe it uses different drivers for different types of X setups? - Mark