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Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: xorgconfig?
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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