On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> wrote: <SNIP> >> >> VIDEO_CARDS="intel vesa fbdev" >> VIDEO_CARDS="intelvesa"
That was a mistake typing. Should have been "intel vesa" as the guy on the intel-gfx list suggest I try vesa and right now I cannot seem to get an i810 driver which is what just typing 'X' complains about. > > "intelvesa" doesn't exist. Basically, do a: > > equery uses xorg-drivers > > to see what values are acceptable for VIDEO_CARDS. The "video_cards_intel" > USE flag for example means it's expanded from VIDEO_CARDS="intel" > > >> In the first method when I boot if I have KMS_HELPERS enabled in the >> kernel then the screen goes black at the udev step during boot and I >> have to ssh in to reboot the machine. I can stop that by adding >> i915.modeset=0 to the boot command line. > > When using KMS, make sure you have vesafb (or any other framebuffer driver) > disabled. > > The next step is probably searching and asking for advice in the Intel > section of Phoronix: > > http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=44 > > Also, with new chipsets, it's pretty much a *must* to run the latest > versions of X and kernel. At the moment that means xorg-server-1.7.4 and > gentoo-sources-2.6.32-r2. If you're on Gentoo stable you will need a lot of > unmasking :P I have no problem I guess with ~amd64 if that's what I need to do but the Intel guy said all I needed was xf86-intel-video 2.9 or higher and I've got 2.9.1. He didn't suggest I needed xorg-server-1.7. I am running gentoo-sources-2.6.32-r2. Once I go ~amd64 I cannot go back right? Basically someday I could do a reinstall but other than that I just have to stay ~amd64? I'm not against doing it because desperately need the machine. If it doesn't help it doesn't matter because right now what I have isn't worth applying electricity to me. The issue here is that Intel took a path of putting XP drivers out there but there's no real support for how to make the machine run XP which I need for TradeStation or I cannot trade futures. I've been unable to trade for about 8 trading days now. If I cannot get XP on the machine then the way I see it is run X and see if VMware can do the job, or else spend $300 for some new version of Windows which I HATE to think of doing, and I don't have it anyway. (Well, I do, but money is REALLY tight.) How do I go totally testing? Is that ARCH=~amd64 in my make.conf? Do I really want that? Every leading edge version of every package on my system? gcc? glibc? Isn't that risky when you need a machine to work every day? Thanks, Mark
