Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>]

On 2011/05/14 05:19 (GMT+0200) Alex Schuster composed:

> Indi writes:

>>  Felix Miata wrote:

>>>  Along the way to successful boot, I attempted two emerges suggested by the
>>>  handbook (one being Grub Legacy). Both produced "ERROR: ... (compile
>>>  phase)..." errors.

> If you like, post the messages here. Be sure to include enough of the
> log, from the first error message on.

Still the same problem, needing to get the log off the system onto the server 
or into an email without working NFS or rebooting to something with working NFS.

So, I've booted into SUSE. Logs for 6 failed emerges are in 
http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/

I'm chrooted into Gentoo for now to try and fix whatever's broken, and get to 
use legible tty fonts that way in the mean time, e.g. while rebuilding kernel 
with proper tty video selections, and ext4 instead of ext3.

> Have you emerged nfs-utils? Is /etc/init.d/nfs running? This should take
> care of everything I think.

# emerge nfs-utils

produces errors for dev-libs/libevent-2.0.10 twice.

>>  Maybe a stupid question, but have you tried run emerge --sync and emerge
>>  -vauND world yet since installing?

>>>  Another problem, highly annoying, is both vga= and video= cmdline parameters
>>>  are apparently being ignored. KMS seems married to the Trinitron's
>>>  PreferredMode (1600x1200), which produces mousetype on the ttys, and needs to
>>>  be fixed before I'll be able to accomplish much without pain trying to see
>>>  what I'm doing. My tty PreferredMode is 1152x864, which works with openSUSE
>>>  KMS kernels by setting video=1152x864 on cmdline.

Never solved the above in Fedora either. It's the same problem here. 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701190

> I just switched to KMS mode, and was happy that without doing anything I
> had the natural resolution of my display. Don't know how to change this

Natural resolution is fine in X, because I can force DPI and tweak fonts 
easily. In ttys the only way that ever worked easily was via vga=, which 
doesn't work with KMS.

> though. Does kernel command line parameter "vga=ask" still work maybe?

It does produce a modes list as before, but whatever is selected is ignored 
unless using a video chip that lacks KMS support, like mga or r128.

> There are several more howtos on gentoo.org, but I don't know if NFS and
> console display are covered.

I'll look while the kernel is recompiling.

>>  VIDEO_CARDS="radeon"

> I think that's for X-related stuff only.

Related question: Is there any way to get BIOS setting for NUMLOCK state to 
be obeyed? emerge can't find a setleds or numlock package except as relates 
to X. Both Mandriva & openSUSE obey BIOS NUM state automatically.
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