RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't emerge X11

["Marzan, Richard non Unisys" <Richard.Marzan@unisys.com>]

It should not build anything not related to your video card. Make sure
the variables are set correctly. Then, run emerge --info and see if that
setting has taken effect. If it has not then run #source /etc/make.conf.
then check emerge --info and see if sis is the value set for
VIDEO_CARDS.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Taylor [mailto:dtaylor1952@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 10:25 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't emerge X11

Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote:
> Yes, there is a variable that you can set in /etc/make.conf
> 
> VIDEO_CARDS="sis"
> ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ##nice one to set as well
> 
I guess I did something wrong because it still wanted to build all the 
card types.
> To see a full list of the cards available for the variables run
> #emerge --info
> 
>>From the output you can see which options are available. Once you set
> these variables in make.conf portage will not build the other
packages.
> For example; I have VIDEO_CARDS="nv" so when I build X if does not
> compile anything depending with sis or any of the other options
> available for the VIDEO_CARDS option.
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel da Veiga [mailto:danieldaveiga@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 2:01 PM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't emerge X11
> 
> On 9/5/07, Dennis Taylor <dtaylor1952@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Francesco Talamona wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 05 September 2007, Dennis Taylor wrote:
>>>> Fails while building sis_dri.c. I have tracked it to a #define
>>>> problem while compiling. Sis_dri.c includes dri.h which includes
>>>> sis_dri.h. The issue is that XFree86Server is not defined at
> compile
>>>> time. I have looked around, but not yet figured out how to cause
> that
>>>> to be defined.
>>> Do you have SIS hardware?
>>>
>>> Ciao
>>>       Francesco
>> No SIS hardware that I know of--lspci shows Matrox, but no SIS.  Is
>> there a flag to tell it explicitly which video card(s) I want to
>> support?  I know there must be a manual to read, but I have not been
>> smart enough to find it.
> 
> Have you tried following:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
> 
> Your questions are all answered there.
I have looked at this now, and will tinker more with it later, but on a 
different machine.  One that does not have to grind away for several 
hours before telling me that it failed. :-)  The machine in question is 
mostly used as a gateway and a little bit of development, so I am just 
removing X from it until I can learn more.

Thanks for trying.


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