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wrc1944
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 Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 4:45 pm Post subject: Quick ATI-drm-kernel install questions |
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1. When you configure your kernel, the DRM guide says to NOT set DRM in menuconfig. Does this mean you still select it as a module (M), and agpgart compiled into the kernel (Y)? Or, does it mean deselect DRM entirely in menuconfig, and then emerge xfree-drm later (in either case)?
2. I have ATI 9000 Pro cards in all 3 boxes, and have downloaded all of xfree AND xfree-drm with emerge -f to /portage/distfiles. I've failed 10 times in the last week after getting almost through with the GRP type install, and genkernel, and 2 manual kernel compiles, and now am trying again, so I don't want to mess up this time. (I'm very experienced at manual kernels).
When I get to the xfree emerge, do I use:
VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" emerge -k xfree-drm
instead of the normal emerge -k xfree, and will this to solve my x problems? Or, is there another command I'm not aware of?
3. When emerging packages associated with xfree, do I still need to use USE="bindist" with emerge -k if I'm not doing the GRP install?
4. I can't seem to get wvdial configured, even with the Stupid Mode=1 line. Can anyone give me the correct method? It always drops the connection 2 seconds after it connects. I've followed the directions found on many websites precisely, and nothing fixes that disconnect.
I'm stuck with dialup, and am trying do a hybridized install with the 1.4 live cd and Knoppix 3.2. The only time I've ever got a gentoo install to work was with 1.4rc4 from an Mandrake 9.1 minimal install on the same Hard disk (with the great help of Puggy & Neje). This newest 1.4 GRP has given me seemingly unsolvable problems. My install cd's sumchecked on 2 different copies burnt on another box at my sisters place on dsl, so that can't be it.
5. One other problem- I can't seem to enable cdcache in the 1.4 cd1 boot options- any ideas, or what is the exact command to do this correctly. Trying to do so always leads me to drastic errors later in extracting the stage 3 tarball, and aborts the install process.
Thanks much,
wrc1944
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Braempje
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 9:09 am Post subject: Re: Quick ATI-drm-kernel install questions |
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I'm going to try to answer your questions, but I don't know all answers... Here we go:
| wrc1944 wrote: | | 1. When you configure your kernel, the DRM guide says to NOT set DRM in menuconfig. Does this mean you still select it as a module (M), and agpgart compiled into the kernel (Y)? Or, does it mean deselect DRM entirely in menuconfig, and then emerge xfree-drm later (in either case)? |
Take a look at codelisting 2.4 in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml. You must enable (Y) agpgart, and disable DRM.
| wrc1944 wrote: | 2. I have ATI 9000 Pro cards in all 3 boxes, and have downloaded all of xfree AND xfree-drm with emerge -f to /portage/distfiles. I've failed 10 times in the last week after getting almost through with the GRP type install, and genkernel, and 2 manual kernel compiles, and now am trying again, so I don't want to mess up this time. (I'm very experienced at manual kernels).
When I get to the xfree emerge, do I use:
VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" emerge -k xfree-drm
instead of the normal emerge -k xfree, and will this to solve my x problems? Or, is there another command I'm not aware of? |
Add a use flag radeon in your make.conf, and then just | Code: | | emerge -k xfree-drm |
Btw: you don't need to use emerge -f, emerge -k all the time, a plain emerge works fine and sometimes faster (if you get your internet connection working, that is).
| wrc1944 wrote: | | 3. When emerging packages associated with xfree, do I still need to use USE="bindist" with emerge -k if I'm not doing the GRP install? |
Try to stop using GRP as soon as possible, so you get the most recent packages, so remove that useflag and start using emerge like the big guys 
| wrc1944 wrote: | 4. I can't seem to get wvdial configured, even with the Stupid Mode=1 line. Can anyone give me the correct method? It always drops the connection 2 seconds after it connects. I've followed the directions found on many websites precisely, and nothing fixes that disconnect.
I'm stuck with dialup, and am trying do a hybridized install with the 1.4 live cd and Knoppix 3.2. The only time I've ever got a gentoo install to work was with 1.4rc4 from an Mandrake 9.1 minimal install on the same Hard disk (with the great help of Puggy & Neje). This newest 1.4 GRP has given me seemingly unsolvable problems. My install cd's sumchecked on 2 different copies burnt on another box at my sisters place on dsl, so that can't be it. |
I don't have an answer for this one, maybe post this in Networking & Security.
| wrc1944 wrote: | | 5. One other problem- I can't seem to enable cdcache in the 1.4 cd1 boot options- any ideas, or what is the exact command to do this correctly. Trying to do so always leads me to drastic errors later in extracting the stage 3 tarball, and aborts the install process. |
I don't have a clue on this one either...
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