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 <gentoo-amd64+bounces-12347-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1NZ8pd-0000Ul-1h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:13:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6282AE0A03; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:12:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f200.google.com (mail-pz0-f200.google.com [209.85.222.200]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31AD9E0A03 for <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:12:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk38 with SMTP id 38so2153843pzk.9 for <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:12:38 -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=wdMH/OzFNAAMPlWU+YDXl9CzF6y8TlMlJTGBrCgAiY0=; b=X2yeTlHUiuMLXnoMsz02eMPKGsjOBrlxAo2TYeD/FxCZZ8zMfbils8PNQTnPaB9crO 9qrtF6lbdXpJQYf4uFg6MXG1P3CWJ8dHfEjWbSF6Og0lZGaK+zppek45Mif9V2MXEwdG sLtyCTKmwNuHuBVmkwkVG4pI6pyg4Hq2L4Rqg= 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=JKpT0+Suwr7GETG10wWSQIul+T3SlIasQ7XuTsFeDHiAN9qvRCSYWce3kQTimbWl06 HgAGjNnjiyERhvcZ/19duoX2hCJW5w9Ih0xRL9iLnqtG/HMa0AoBHxPQ1rNIP6mK15ps vho4/5HsI5Lt94DOqDP2U04NDxuin3SUgImXI= Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-amd64+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-amd64+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-amd64+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-amd64.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.9.17 with SMTP id 17mr3885572wfi.235.1264363958314; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:12:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <hji82t$j2o$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <5bdc1c8b1001241051u43415a3wf4169e6f07af295a@mail.gmail.com> <1264359972.31671.2.camel@oddman.donahues.us.> <5bdc1c8b1001241115m544e3f76g3af8b63a17ce1615@mail.gmail.com> <hji6eu$du4$1@ger.gmane.org> <5bdc1c8b1001241134w142c8a4fx6463e9f066af81b3@mail.gmail.com> <hji82t$j2o$1@ger.gmane.org> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:12:38 -0800 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b1001241212u6298e39fqfc66556a780ba3e9@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: xorgconfig? From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 76bf022d-6177-4124-bdc3-bf8340da721b X-Archives-Hash: 6a58c4b50e410279c9c6a0496f5434f5 On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote= : <SNIP> >> >> VIDEO_CARDS=3D"intel vesa fbdev" >> VIDEO_CARDS=3D"intelvesa" That was a mistake typing. Should have been "intel vesa" as the guy on the intel-gfx list suggest I try vesa and right now I cannot seem to get an i810 driver which is what just typing 'X' complains about. > > "intelvesa" doesn't exist. =C2=A0Basically, do a: > > =C2=A0equery uses xorg-drivers > > to see what values are acceptable for VIDEO_CARDS. =C2=A0The "video_cards= _intel" > USE flag for example means it's expanded from VIDEO_CARDS=3D"intel" > > >> 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. > > When using KMS, make sure you have vesafb (or any other framebuffer drive= r) > disabled. > > The next step is probably searching and asking for advice in the Intel > section of Phoronix: > > =C2=A0http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=3D44 > > Also, with new chipsets, it's pretty much a *must* to run the latest > versions of X and kernel. =C2=A0At the moment that means xorg-server-1.7.= 4 and > gentoo-sources-2.6.32-r2. =C2=A0If you're on Gentoo stable you will need = a lot of > unmasking :P I have no problem I guess with ~amd64 if that's what I need to do but the Intel guy said all I needed was xf86-intel-video 2.9 or higher and I've got 2.9.1. He didn't suggest I needed xorg-server-1.7. I am running gentoo-sources-2.6.32-r2. Once I go ~amd64 I cannot go back right? Basically someday I could do a reinstall but other than that I just have to stay ~amd64? I'm not against doing it because desperately need the machine. If it doesn't help it doesn't matter because right now what I have isn't worth applying electricity to me. The issue here is that Intel took a path of putting XP drivers out there but there's no real support for how to make the machine run XP which I need for TradeStation or I cannot trade futures. I've been unable to trade for about 8 trading days now. If I cannot get XP on the machine then the way I see it is run X and see if VMware can do the job, or else spend $300 for some new version of Windows which I HATE to think of doing, and I don't have it anyway. (Well, I do, but money is REALLY tight.) How do I go totally testing? Is that ARCH=3D~amd64 in my make.conf? Do I really want that? Every leading edge version of every package on my system? gcc? glibc? Isn't that risky when you need a machine to work every day? Thanks, Mark