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 1NZ8Qn-00061p-FZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:47:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1497BE098E; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:47:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89930E0986 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:47:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NZ8QA-0007U5-8f for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:46:54 +0100 Received: from athedsl-373127.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.9.133]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:46:54 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-373127.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:46:54 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: xorgconfig? Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:46:38 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <5bdc1c8b1001241051u43415a3wf4169e6f07af295a@mail.gmail.com> <1264359972.31671.2.camel@oddman.donahues.us.> <5bdc1c8b1001241115m544e3f76g3af8b63a17ce1615@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b1001241134w142c8a4fx6463e9f066af81b3@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-373127.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100122 Thunderbird/3.0.1 In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b1001241134w142c8a4fx6463e9f066af81b3@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 11b90e26-167f-4d9f-a6f5-02c77accb2bc X-Archives-Hash: 8ea5a39fddff834befdeaaad1e2bee42 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