[gentoo-user] New install, a few problems (or not?)

[waltdnes@waltdnes.org]

  64-bit no-multilib install on a relatively new Dell Inspiron...

1) X works OK, but installing x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel finishes off
with the message...

***********************************************
WARN: postinst
This driver requires KMS support in your kernel
  Device Drivers --->
    Graphics support --->
      Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support)  --->
      <*>   Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G (i915 driver)  --->
              i915 driver
      [*]       Enable modesetting on intel by default
***********************************************

  Note that make.conf contains...
VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965"
...and X loads the i965 driver, and runs OK.  Why is i915 even mentioned?


2) "uname -a" gives the following output...

[i3][root][~] uname -a
Linux i3 4.4.6-gentoo #4 SMP Wed Sep 7 17:12:27 Local time zone must be set--see zic m x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU N3700 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux


...but I've already run...

[i3][root][~] emerge --config sys-libs/timezone-data

Configuring pkg...

 * Updating /etc/localtime with /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Eastern

3) The new machine is not co-operating with my hardware KVM switch.  If
I select the machine while it's booting up, it works fine.  But if I
switch away and come back, the VGA video does not work.  I've confirmed
that the keyboard part of KVM still works...
* boot up with new machine selected
* log in as root in text console mode
* switch away
* switch back, and there's no video
* but if I blindly type "poweroff", it shuts down, so keyboard works

  Ugly hack...  The new machine has VGA and HDMI ports.  My monitor has
VGA (which the KVM switch uses) and HDMI (and DVI and Displayport?).  I
can add one more cable to the "rat's nest" under the table.  But
switching between machines will also require toggling the monitor as
well as the KVM.

4) media-libs/x265 took 68 minutes to build on a relatively new 4-core
Intel Silvermont with 8 gigs of RAM, and X was not running!  Time output

real    68m48.122s
user    87m52.139s
sys     0m25.027s

  It got stuck at a few times building "deblock"...

[ 98%] Building CXX object common/CMakeFiles/common.dir/deblock.cpp.o cd /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/x265-1.8-r3/work/x265_11047/source-abi_x86_64.amd64-main10/common && /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++  -DEXPORT_C_API=0 -DHAVE_INT_TYPES_H=1 -DHIGH_BIT_DEPTH=1 -DX265_ARCH_X86=1 -DX265_DEPTH=10 -DX265_NS=x265_10bit -DX86_64=1 -D__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS=1 -I/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/x265-1.8-r3/work/x265_11047/source/.  -I/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/x265-1.8-r3/work/x265_11047/source/common -I/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/x265-1.8-r3/work/x265_11047/source/encoder -I/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/x265-1.8-r3/work/x265_11047/source-abi_x86_64.amd64-main10 -DNDEBUG -O2 -march=native -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fPIC    -Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -fPIC -Wno-array-bounds -ffast-math -mstackrealign -fno-exceptions -o CMakeFiles/common.dir/deblock.cpp.o -c /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/x265-1.8-r3/work/x265_11047/source/common/deblock.cpp

  When I say "stuck", I mean that "top" shows yasm pegging one core at 100%

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
 3520 portage   20   0  178920 171848   2032 R 100.0  2.1  24:48.70 yasm
 3749 waltdnes  20   0   21808   2824   2340 R   0.7  0.0   0:03.54 top
    1 root      20   0    4188   1564   1460 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.37 init
    2 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd


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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications