Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg problems: Intel 945GM (Gigabyte Motherboard onboard video)

[Yoav Luft]

I had a similar with the intel video driver, it took me some time to
get it all working smoothly.
First, read this wiki page: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA,
and follow to the latter, including the specific versions of
everything, and parameters that need to be passed to the kernel (yes,
I know they say you should either set it when configuring the kernel,
or when starting it. Do both!). It worked for me, and I had the same
problems.

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you, Volker.
>
> I'm uncertain what did it: I have fluxbox working now.  Many
> intervening steps, lots of error messages.  Somehow, it just works.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Alan
>
> On 2009-09-06, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> > On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> >> I got caught, apparently like many others, installing Gentoo to another
> >> PC.
> >> I've been running Ubuntu (probably Intrepid Ibex, two versions ago), so I
> >> know this video adapter is supported.  But various issues have ambushed me
> >> in trying to get this working.
> >>
> >> 1.  On first install, the keyboard didn't work.  I followed the
> >>  instructions to the letter, the mouse even worked, but the keyboard
> >>  didn't.  I killed off the windows one by one with the mouse, and the
> >>  machine was then stalled in that state.
> >>
> >> 2. I remembered a keyboard issue from my home machine, involving a new
> >> version of xorg, so I (unwisely perhaps) added the ~amd64 keyword to
> >> make.conf.  Thereupon followed a series of issues, involving one
> >> hypothesis
> >> after another.  I never saw a screen with the "X" cursor again.
> >>
> >> 3. There is an issue surrounding HAL.  I added a hal keyword, recompiled,
> >> tweaked the kernel: no good.  I got a black screen.  Keyboard wasn't
> >> working, so I followed a few more hunches.  I was unable to read the docs
> >>  in a nice screen, as I was using links.
> >>
> >> 4. Eventually I decided to put the hal keyword back in, and recompiled.
> >> In
> >> the interim I had removed the ~amd keyword from make.conf, and I ran
> >> emerge
> >> -uDav --newuse world.  Thinking better of it, a few merges into that, I
> >> replaced the ~amd64 keyword, and started the same process.  I found along
> >> the way that I needed to serially recompile the kernel, re-merge
> >> xf86-input-*, etc., again.  I then decided to enable evdev, even though I
> >> was intimidated by that from my earlier issue with an nvidia card.
> >>
> >> 5.  I finally read some forum topics and mailing list threads.  Apparently
> >> this is not uncommon at ALL.  A gentoo wiki article about the Intel cards
> >> was referred to, but is unavailable.  Interestingly, even the google cache
> >> is clear of these missing gentoo wiki articles!
> >>
> >> I've finally left the machine overnight to run it's course of
> >> re-installation etc.  If that doesn't work, I have already copied over the
> >> grub.conf entry for the ubuntu install on the same disk, so that's an
> >> option.
> >>
> >> I guess my question is what is the correct way to go about installing
> >>  gentoo on a machine with these on board Intel adapters?
> >>
> >> [I can reinstall the whole system once I figure out what's going on.  I
> >>  must have this machine working within 24 hours, though, hence Ubuntu
> >> looms
> >>  on the horizon.]
> >>
> >>
> >> Alan Davis
> >>
> >> You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world,  but
> >>  when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the
> >>  bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing---that's what
> >>  counts.
> >>
> >>    ----Richard Feynman
> >>
> >
> >
> > the same as always, You emerge your base system. Then kernel. Then X. X
> > drivers. Graphics, Mouse, Keyboard. You can either use evdev or kbd for
> > keyboard. I prefer the later one. Hal or not doesn't make much of a
> > difference.
> >
> > The important thing is: after an X update you must reinstall the input
> > drivers!
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Alan Davis
>
> You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world,
> but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever
> about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's
> doing---that's what counts.
>
>    ----Richard Feynman
>