[SOLVED] Compilation failure compiling XOrg/X11

[student]

Hello everyone!
This is my first post here as I am a noob at gentoo, so pls don't be too harsh.
I have installed gentoo on VirtualBox VM. Now I tried to install Xorg/X11 server and would later install the Fluxbox to have a gui.
I was following this tutorial: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Guide
I did not configure/recompile kernel for xorg, as some setting that, according to tutorial, were needed, were already correct. But fot GPU part, VirtualBox vm doesn't have nvidia or amd virtual card, but rather "VMSVGA", so I didn't set/change any setting related to GPU.
I got an error while compiling some package.
I was running this command:

[mike155]

Hi student,

welcome to the Gentoo forums!

Please post the output of

[student]

Here you go: http://dpaste.com/362QEBM

[fedeliallalinea]

In your log there is no error, but on possible cause is an out of memory error (you have only 1Gb ram).
You should add more RAM on virtual machine and you can also set a lower MAKEOPTS
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[mike155]

In /etc/portage/make.conf:

[fedeliallalinea]

[student]

Thank you for quick help.

[fedeliallalinea]

[student]

Ok. Everything was compiled and installed. I called emerge before you told me how to disable llvm from it, so I guess I have llvm now, too. But that doesn't hurt. I will try to proceed with installation of gui.
Thank you a lot for your help, gentoo mates!

P.S. It took probably around an hour to install. I think llvm and mesa took the most time. I was about to cancel execution at one point, as I thought there is some error or something.

[mike155]

After you change USE flags or anything in make.conf (e.g. VIDEO_CARDS), you should run

[student]

Hello again. Thanks for previous help.
Here I am, cannot start the XOrg server with

[NeddySeagoon]

student,

Its

[student]

Here is paste: http://dpaste.com/0P1164T

P.S.
I checked if there is no virtual monitor assigned to the vm, but in VirtualBox configuration it says "monitor count: 1".

[NeddySeagoon]

student,

The auto detect says [

[student]

Here is output of

[NeddySeagoon]

student,

[student]

Oh boy, startx now started! Thank you!
So what was the problem here? Is it like XOrg was expecting vmware gpu, but instead there was vbox gpu (VMSVGA)? But it doesn't make much sense because "VBoxVGA" cannot be vmware gpu, because its name says "VBoxVGA" :/
And also, shouldn't there be some problems with kernel? I think I had it compiled for one hardware, and now I change tha GPU, shouldn't it stop working?

[NeddySeagoon]

student,

All the documentation for running Gentoo as a VirtualBox guest assumes that you use the VBoxVGA graphics card.
When you installed Gentoo, that's how you configured it.

However, when you configured the VirtualBox environment for Gentoo, you gave it the VMSVGA graphics card.

So the software was set up one way and the emulated hardware another way.
You have changed the emulated hardware to match your Gentoo install.

When you only have the text console, there is one driver suits all in the PC world.
When you get to the GUI, Xorg has different drivers to get the best performance out of each family of cards.

You could have made it work with the other graphics card, by rebuilding your Gentoo but you would probably have the only Gentoo in VirtualBox with the VMware graphics in the world.
That would be hard to support in future.
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[student]

Thank you for explanation. I actually used generic Gentoo installation (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64), and not any guide made specifically for VirtualBox guest Gentoo. But I'm happy that I have it working now.