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

[Indi]

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 03:10:02AM +0200, Felix Miata wrote:
> Yesterday I attempted my first Gentoo install (11.0). Thanks to help here, I
> got through my mirrorselect problem. First boot failed. I managed to miss
> enabling VIA ATA support, so had no access to /. Second kernel build
> suceeded, even to basic network working. First activity on first boot was
> 'emerge mc'. That took too long to measure, pulling in 146 packages total,
> and I had to goto an appointment before it finished (at package 109).
>
> Along the way to successful boot, I attempted two emerges suggested by the
> handbook (one being Grub Legacy). Both produced "ERROR: ... (compile
> phase)..." errors. Today I attempted NFS mounting only to find messages
> indicating I had neither portmap nor rpcbind running, so tried 'emerge
> portmap'. This produced similar (compile phase)... line 2140: Called die..."
> error. So did 'emerge rpcbind'. The way I normally provide logs when asking
> for help is put them on my file/web server via NFS, hence the chicken & egg
> subject line.
>

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.
>
> Any suggestions? Are such things in a FAQ somewhere? Do I need an older or
> newer portage than Wednesday's? The Handbook stops at Finalizing, where these
> questions aren't covered.

Do you have your video card specified in make.conf?
Should be somthing like:

VIDEO_CARDS="radeon"

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