[gentoo-user] Several problems of a newbie

[Meino Christian Cramer]

Hi,

 ...thanks a lot for all your helping answers to my previous
 questions!
 I opened a new thread, because I got some problems.

 In the meanwhile "my" gentoo system has grown fast. KDE is
 installed, X is installed and other nice things, too.

 But there are some little oddities:
 I installed a vanilla kernel, cause I dont like patched kernel
 sources that much. It is only a feeling and by no means a mistrust in
 the gentoo developpers...but...(sorry). 

--

 First problem:
 I configured the kernel to accept the parameter  "vga=" and added "9"
 for the mode, which I found working on my old system very well. I
 used the same config (same hardware, same PC) on my new system.

 What happens? The kernel boots and shows the tiny font I like so
 much. But suddenly while working on the bootscripts, the size of the
 fonts switched to a bigger (ugly, rectangle-shaped font). More
 mysterious: ALL BLUE letters were cancelled by a horizontal bar. Only
 the blue ones (I am NOT joking! ;O)

 Since the boot process was that fast, I couldn't realize, what stage
 of the boot was currently processed.

 --

 Second problem:
 I wanted to emerge gnome. After a while this fails with:

   In file included from apmsleep.c:57:
   /usr/include/time.h:160: error: redefinition of `struct itimerspec'
   /usr/src/linux/include/asm/smp.h:37: warning: array 'cpu_sibling_map' assumed to
    have one element
   /usr/src/linux/include/asm/smp.h:38: warning: array 'cpu_core_map' assumed to ha
   ve one element
   /usr/src/linux/include/asm/smp.h:46: warning: array 'x86_cpu_to_apicid' assumed
   to have one element
   /usr/src/linux/include/asm/hw_irq.h:30: error: storage size of `irq_vector' isn'
   t known
   /usr/src/linux/include/linux/irq.h:99: error: storage size of `irq_affinity' isn
   't known
   /usr/src/linux/include/linux/irq.h:115: error: storage size of `pending_irq_cpum
   ask' isn't known
   apmsleep.c:60: warning: 'rcsid' defined but not used
   {standard input}: Assembler messages:
   {standard input}:125: Warning: size of "_sigpoll" is already 8; not changing to
   4
   make: *** [apmsleep.o] Error 1
   rm apm.o
   !!! ERROR: sys-apps/apmd-3.2.1_p4 failed.
   !!! Function src_compile, Line 50, Exitcode 2
   !!! emake failed
   !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

 I couldn't save more of this, since that was all I could see on the
 screen (big font problem...see above).

 --

 Third problem:
 While emerging something often there are messages displayed as fast
 as they are vanishing in the endless space of bits behind my monitor
 ;O)

 Is there any logfile of the emerging process written to somewhere ?


 Kind regard and thank you very much for any helpful reply in advance
 ! :)
 mcc
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