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Indi writes: |
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> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 03:10:02AM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: |
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>> Along the way to successful boot, I attempted two emerges suggested by the |
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>> handbook (one being Grub Legacy). Both produced "ERROR: ... (compile |
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>> phase)..." errors. |
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If you like, post the messages here. Be sure to include enough of the |
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log, from the first error message on. |
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>> Today I attempted NFS mounting only to find messages |
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>> indicating I had neither portmap nor rpcbind running, so tried 'emerge |
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>> portmap'. This produced similar (compile phase)... line 2140: Called die..." |
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>> error. So did 'emerge rpcbind'. The way I normally provide logs when asking |
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>> for help is put them on my file/web server via NFS, hence the chicken & egg |
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>> subject line. |
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Have you emerged nfs-utils? Is /etc/init.d/nfs running? This should take |
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care of everything I think. |
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> Maybe a stupid question, but have you tried run emerge --sync and emerge |
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> -vauND world yet since installing? |
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>> Another problem, highly annoying, is both vga= and video= cmdline parameters |
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>> are apparently being ignored. KMS seems married to the Trinitron's |
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>> PreferredMode (1600x1200), which produces mousetype on the ttys, and needs to |
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>> be fixed before I'll be able to accomplish much without pain trying to see |
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>> what I'm doing. My tty PreferredMode is 1152x864, which works with openSUSE |
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>> KMS kernels by setting video=1152x864 on cmdline. |
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I just switched to KMS mode, and was happy that without doing anything I |
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had the natural resolution of my display. Don't know how to change this |
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though. Does kernel command line parameter "vga=ask" still work maybe? |
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>> Any suggestions? Are such things in a FAQ somewhere? Do I need an older or |
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>> newer portage than Wednesday's? The Handbook stops at Finalizing, where these |
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>> questions aren't covered. |
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There are several more howtos on gentoo.org, but I don't know if NFS and |
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console display are covered. |
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> Do you have your video card specified in make.conf? |
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> Should be somthing like: |
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> VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" |
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I think that's for X-related stuff only. |
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