From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38B57138206 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 23:07:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E1D321C02E; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 23:07:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85BFB21C015 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 23:07:14 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0BtBAA731xV/z+rSC1cgxBUXoJQwQwJgVqFdwKBPTgUAQEBAQEBAYEKhCMBAQMBJxNECwsNFA0BBRIPBVyIJAgNzxYBAQEHAgEbBIs6hDpSEgEDgwGBFgWXIYQ3gheHeA6PDyOCChyBbiIxgQUHF4EkAQEB X-IPAS-Result: A0BtBAA731xV/z+rSC1cgxBUXoJQwQwJgVqFdwKBPTgUAQEBAQEBAYEKhCMBAQMBJxNECwsNFA0BBRIPBVyIJAgNzxYBAQEHAgEbBIs6hDpSEgEDgwGBFgWXIYQ3gheHeA6PDyOCChyBbiIxgQUHF4EkAQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,465,1427774400"; d="scan'208";a="219429808" Received: from unknown (HELO waltdnes.org) ([45.72.171.63]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 28 Apr 2016 19:07:12 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:07:18 -0400 From: waltdnes@waltdnes.org Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:07:18 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody got a Gentoo system working under uclibc? Message-ID: <20160428230718.GB7108@waltdnes.org> References: <20160427141253.GA834@waltdnes.org> <5720F615.2060901@charter.net> <20160427213140.GA2563@waltdnes.org> <57215994.5020807@charter.net> <20160428031648.GA5150@waltdnes.org> <5722110D.8070207@charter.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5722110D.8070207@charter.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Archives-Salt: 4e580a2d-69ba-4643-a963-bcab07509d53 X-Archives-Hash: 6fc58f671fc4230a6a20a22f9f49059d On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 08:33:01AM -0500, Corbin wrote > > > Questions ... if you will permit : > > Are you saying that in "make.conf" you set INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" and did > a test compile run? > The emerge you tried ... was it "xorg-base/xorg-x11"? > Or did you try a meta package for a desktop? xorg-server, intending to add ICEWM later. > If a hard dependency link between Xorg server -> xf86-input-keyboard > exists, this will never work. I have no idea at this point if this is > true. What I have been reading suggests that the xf86-input keyboard and > mouse libs are being phased out. > > With that call ?error? ... Xorg may be an impossible goal / waste of > time on uClibc. I tried INPUT_DEVICES="evdev mouse keyboard", which probably caused the problem. With INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" and VIDEO_CARDS="vesa fbdev", things build OK. Whether they'll work, I don't know, but at least it builds. ICEWM appears to be building too. Actually, ICEWM has a "(uclibc)" USE flag which is automatically hard-invoked or hard-masked depending on whether or not the system uses uclibc. James points to https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened_uClibc which mentions "Lilblue"... > Continued developments in uClibc have made it increasingly suitable > for systems like Lilblue, our security-enhanced, fully featured > XFCE4 desktop, amd64 system built on uClibc. WHEEEEEEEEEE! IT WOIKS! Whilst I was typing away, the ICEWM and xterm builds finished. I've brought up the basic ICEWM window with 4 work areas. The fixes to my problem were... INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa fbdev" enable "udev" flag in make.conf (actually it runs on eudev, but...) I've never used "evdev" before, so I was not familiar with how to set it up. It's a bit disappointing, because evdev *DEMANDS* udev, so I can forget about switching in busybox's mdev for udev. BTW, I stumbled over "1 weird little tip" on the internet, to make debugging easier for many bootup problems, not just uclibc. Add the "--noclear" option to the first console in /etc/inittab. With this option, the initial login prompt does *NOT* clear away late bootup output, including useful error messages... # TERMINALS c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty --noclear 38400 tty1 linux c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications