[gentoo-amd64] Re: xorgconfig?

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

On 01/24/2010 09:34 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> [...]
> I apologize at the outset. I'm ranting. I know it. I'm sorry in
> advance. Please everyone, please accept my apologies.

It's OK, we've all been there ;)


> 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="intel vesa fbdev"
> VIDEO_CARDS="intelvesa"

"intelvesa" doesn't exist.  Basically, do a:

   equery uses xorg-drivers

to see what values are acceptable for VIDEO_CARDS.  The 
"video_cards_intel" USE flag for example means it's expanded from 
VIDEO_CARDS="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=0 to the boot command line.

When using KMS, make sure you have vesafb (or any other framebuffer 
driver) disabled.

The next step is probably searching and asking for advice in the Intel 
section of Phoronix:

   http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=44

Also, with new chipsets, it's pretty much a *must* to run the latest 
versions of X and kernel.  At the moment that means xorg-server-1.7.4 
and gentoo-sources-2.6.32-r2.  If you're on Gentoo stable you will need 
a lot of unmasking :P