Unable to change resolution

zppnduster · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 4:59 pm Post subject: Unable to change resolution

Hey,

I just finished installing gentoo and gnome on my netbook. But I've got one issue: I cannot change my resolution. I am aware that this has to do with the drivers. But I simply do not know how to install drivers in gentoo.

I found out what drivers I need - using lspci. Result: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub

Then I downloaded the drivers from http://intellinuxgraphics.org and followed the installation guide.

But nothing changed so far. I also cannot find the new drivers when using make menuconfig.

Since I am a gentoo newbie and an average Linux user I thought it couldn't hurt to ask here.

When I googled for intel graphics gentoo I found nothing helpful. All they do is to activate the drivers when using make menuconfig.

Thank you in advance. I hope you'll be able to help me out. I'm really enjoying doing gentoo stuff so far. :-)

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 23089

Please post the output of emerge --info ; zgrep -E '^[^#]' /proc/config.gz. Also, please elaborate on what installation guide you followed. Intel graphics are well supported by the main tree, and installing things outside the package manager can cause problems later.

In the future, you may find the [url] tag useful, which will create hyperlinks so that others do not need to copy text from your post to visit websites you reference.

zppnduster · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 8:41 pm Post subject:

There's alot of output.

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 23089

Your kernel does not have CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y, so the command I gave you failed. We still need your kernel configuration.

I still do not know what guide you followed, but running make install as root is a bad idea. That almost certainly installed files outside control of Portage, so now your system has files you must manage manually. Once you identify exactly what guide you followed and what sources you installed, we can identify how hard it will be to clean up the manually installed files.

chithanh · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 11:47 pm Post subject:

Setting up X.org is described here, including for Intel:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml

Note that you should first clean up anything that your "make install" wrote to the system, or else it may interfere with and/or break other parts of X. If you are lucky, it installed to /usr/local/ so is easily identifiable.

zppnduster · Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:57 pm Post subject:

Thank you for your help so far but I figured that I did too many mistakes. Well, it was my first try. I am now doing it all over again. And this time I am trying to do it right.

I will post again if its working and what exactly I forgot in case anyone did the same mistakes.