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On 01/24/2010 09:34 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> I apologize at the outset. I'm ranting. I know it. I'm sorry in |
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> advance. Please everyone, please accept my apologies. |
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It's OK, we've all been there ;) |
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> Unable to run any sort of X so far. I've tried make.conf two ways and |
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> then maybe 50 recompiles of the kernel with different things on and |
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> off. |
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> VIDEO_CARDS="intel vesa fbdev" |
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> VIDEO_CARDS="intelvesa" |
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"intelvesa" doesn't exist. Basically, do a: |
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equery uses xorg-drivers |
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to see what values are acceptable for VIDEO_CARDS. The |
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"video_cards_intel" USE flag for example means it's expanded from |
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VIDEO_CARDS="intel" |
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> In the first method when I boot if I have KMS_HELPERS enabled in the |
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> kernel then the screen goes black at the udev step during boot and I |
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> have to ssh in to reboot the machine. I can stop that by adding |
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> i915.modeset=0 to the boot command line. |
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When using KMS, make sure you have vesafb (or any other framebuffer |
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driver) disabled. |
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The next step is probably searching and asking for advice in the Intel |
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section of Phoronix: |
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http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=44 |
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Also, with new chipsets, it's pretty much a *must* to run the latest |
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versions of X and kernel. At the moment that means xorg-server-1.7.4 |
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and gentoo-sources-2.6.32-r2. If you're on Gentoo stable you will need |
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a lot of unmasking :P |
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