Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes:
> On 07/12/2016 17:34, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Setup:
>>
>> gentoo 32bit vbox guest on win 10 64bit host
>> Installed xorg-server, lxde Meta pkgs and deps
>> (along with many other pkgs ... to many to list
>> here but included at the end)
>>
>> uname -a:
>> Linux g0 4.8.8-gentoo #2 Fri Nov 18 20:16:14 EST 2016 i686 Intel(R)
>> Xeon(R) CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>>
>> Theoretically the install should be ready now to run X and lxde.
>> However, when I run `startlxde' nothing whatsoever happens. At least
>> not at the command line or visibly. Prompt just returns lamely.
>>
>> However, if I run startx. The vm crashes clear to power off or
>> sometimes just becomes inoperable with these error messages showing.
>> (Note: nothing can be clicked moved or etc at this point)
>
>
>
> Your first problem seems to be you don't have any input or output
> devices. Please post
>
> - eix xorg-server
> - values of INPUT_DEVICES and VIDEO_CARDS from make.conf
> - confirm that you built the kernel with evdev and the kernel module is
> loaded
harry > eix xorg-server
[I] x11-base/xorg-server
Available versions: 1.12.4-r5(0/1.12.4) 1.12.4-r7(0/1.12.4)
1.15.2-r2(0/1.15.2) 1.15.2-r4(0/1.15.2) 1.16.4(0/1.16.1) 1.16.4-r5(0/1.16.1)
1.17.4(0/1.17.4) (~)1.18.0(0/1.18.0) (~)1.18.1(0/1.18.1) (~)1.18.2(0/1.18.2)
(~)1.18.3(0/1.18.3) 1.18.4(0/1.18.4) [M](~)1.19.0(0/1.19.0) **9999(0/9999) {dmx
doc glamor ipv6 kdrive libressl minimal nptl selinux static-libs +suid systemd
tslib +udev unwind wayland xephyr xnest xorg xvfb}
Installed versions: 1.18.4(21:29:32 12/06/16)(doc glamor suid udev xorg
-dmx -ipv6 -kdrive -libressl -minimal -selinux -static-libs -systemd -tslib
-unwind -wayland -xephyr -xnest -xvfb)
Homepage: https://www.x.org/wiki/
Description: X.Org X servers
------- --------- ---=--- --------- --------
harry > grep VIDEO /etc/portage/make.conf
VIDEO_CARDS="virtualbox"
I don't have anthing in make.conf about Input devices nor have I had
on 2 other gentoo installs that successfully ran lxde.
I've used the same make.conf with little variation on all three
------- ------- ---=--- ------- -------
harry > cd /lib/modules
harry > grep -r evdev.ko *
Binary file 4.8.8-gentoo/modules.dep.bin matches
4.8.8-gentoo/modules.order:kernel/drivers/input/evdev.ko
4.8.8-gentoo/modules.dep:kernel/drivers/input/evdev.ko:
------- ------- ---=--- ------- -------
harry > sudo lsmod
Module Size Used by
vboxguest 171071 0
evdev 8704 0
> There's a decent X11 install page on the gentoo wiki, did you follow it?
> Installing on vbox is not too different from installing on metal except
> you don't use the video driver for the physical card, you use the vbox
> one (it's virtualized).
I used the gentoo lxde wiki, which basically says that once you've got
a basic gentoo install AND the xorg-server is installed you are ready
to install lxde. It recommends using the meta package which I did.
I assumed emerge would take care of dependants.
> Lastly, why a 32 bit guest on a 64 bit host? There's little benefit from
> doing that, and amd64 is far better supported in general than x86_64.
> Plus you just create more work for the host.
Does that have bearing on my problem?
There were two reasons:
1) I hadn't yet found the BIOS switch to turn on Virtualization and
the newer VBox since late 4.XX I think, do not even offer 64 bit
if it is not set in bios. So the vbox version I used didn't have
that on offer.
2) I found the discussions about the new approach with 2 sets of
libraries and so forth to be pretty confusing... don't recall now
exactly what things confused me... so I went straight 32 bit with the
idea it would be less confusing. And for 2 gentoo installs that
seemed to be born out.
Since I had no trouble with those, thought I would stay with the tried
and true approach. But apparently I missed something important or
some such.
