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On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Alan E. Davis wrote: |
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> I got caught, apparently like many others, installing Gentoo to another PC. |
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> I've been running Ubuntu (probably Intrepid Ibex, two versions ago), so I |
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> know this video adapter is supported. But various issues have ambushed me |
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> in trying to get this working. |
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> 1. On first install, the keyboard didn't work. I followed the |
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> instructions to the letter, the mouse even worked, but the keyboard |
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> didn't. I killed off the windows one by one with the mouse, and the |
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> machine was then stalled in that state. |
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> 2. I remembered a keyboard issue from my home machine, involving a new |
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> version of xorg, so I (unwisely perhaps) added the ~amd64 keyword to |
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> make.conf. Thereupon followed a series of issues, involving one hypothesis |
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> after another. I never saw a screen with the "X" cursor again. |
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> 3. There is an issue surrounding HAL. I added a hal keyword, recompiled, |
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> tweaked the kernel: no good. I got a black screen. Keyboard wasn't |
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> working, so I followed a few more hunches. I was unable to read the docs |
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> in a nice screen, as I was using links. |
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> 4. Eventually I decided to put the hal keyword back in, and recompiled. In |
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> the interim I had removed the ~amd keyword from make.conf, and I ran emerge |
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> -uDav --newuse world. Thinking better of it, a few merges into that, I |
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> replaced the ~amd64 keyword, and started the same process. I found along |
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> the way that I needed to serially recompile the kernel, re-merge |
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> xf86-input-*, etc., again. I then decided to enable evdev, even though I |
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> was intimidated by that from my earlier issue with an nvidia card. |
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> 5. I finally read some forum topics and mailing list threads. Apparently |
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> this is not uncommon at ALL. A gentoo wiki article about the Intel cards |
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> was referred to, but is unavailable. Interestingly, even the google cache |
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> is clear of these missing gentoo wiki articles! |
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> I've finally left the machine overnight to run it's course of |
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> re-installation etc. If that doesn't work, I have already copied over the |
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> grub.conf entry for the ubuntu install on the same disk, so that's an |
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> option. |
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> I guess my question is what is the correct way to go about installing |
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> gentoo on a machine with these on board Intel adapters? |
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> [I can reinstall the whole system once I figure out what's going on. I |
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> must have this machine working within 24 hours, though, hence Ubuntu looms |
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> on the horizon.] |
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> Alan Davis |
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> You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but |
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> when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the |
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> bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing---that's what |
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> counts. |
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> ----Richard Feynman |
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the same as always, You emerge your base system. Then kernel. Then X. X |
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drivers. Graphics, Mouse, Keyboard. You can either use evdev or kbd for |
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keyboard. I prefer the later one. Hal or not doesn't make much of a difference. |
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The important thing is: after an X update you must reinstall the input |
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drivers! |
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