What now?

dragos240 · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 252

Okay. I followed the handbook, and everything looks and feels great. I got a framebuffer, and now I'm running links inside a fb. But, I want Xorg, ALSA, and GNOME. What should I do first, I don't want to skip a step, and screw up my system. Any help would be greatly appreciated

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d2_racing · Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:43 am Post subject:

Hi, first, can you post this :

dragos240 · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 252

d2_racing · Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:59 am Post subject:

For what I see right now, you will need this at least :

dragos240 · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 252

d2_racing · Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:32 am Post subject:

You should also set this :

VIDEO_CARDS

Can you post this :

d2_racing · Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:33 am Post subject:

Hal should be installed since you have the hal use flag and when you install X, it will get pull automagically.

d2_racing · Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:34 am Post subject:

Are you using the testing branch ???

Can you post this :

dragos240 · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 252

Alright.
Output of lspci -n is:
http://pastebin.com/d40a86583

Output of cat /etc/make.conf (I had to cut the mirrors):
[url]http://pastebin.com/d43f942dc[url/]

d2_racing · Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 3:03 am Post subject:

Hi, you should have this :

d2_racing · Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 3:04 am Post subject:

Never run with this : ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64"

You are too new with Gentoo

cach0rr0 · Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 4:19 am Post subject:

in addition to hal, do not forget dbus

you should at least have these in your USE if you want Gnome and whatnot setup with minimal issues:

hal
dbus
opengl
X
gtk
gnome

You will also want 'hald' and 'dbus' added to default runlevel once they are merged

The rest has been covered really - INPUT_DEVICES and VIDEO_CARDS

Assuming your kernel is kosher, with everything set as should be in make.conf, it's just a matter of emerging gnome (which should in theory bring in xorg-server). If you want the full set of gnome stuff and don't care about picking and choosing individual pieces, just "emerge gnome", set up /etc/rc.conf so that XSESSION="Gnome", and assuming hald and dbus are running, a 'startx' should get you where you need.
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dragos240 · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 252

cach0rr0 · Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 12:24 pm Post subject:

gnome would not take even a full day on my laptop
i do not know how long on yours because i dont know your hardware, but mine is just a Pentium Dual Core T4200 (2GHz), 3GB RAM

it did take me overnight (roughly 10 hours) to emerge kde-meta, but that is much bigger package than gnome

should not take most people nearly so long

as far as open source vs proprietary drivers, i remember using the open source driver years ago without issue
it has been around a long while and for many it does nicely

however the proprietary drivers are indeed in portage

x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
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dragos240 · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 252

As for the input options mentioned earlier, do I have to install the input device drivers also? OR does tha come with X. As a former archlinux user, I needed to install xf86-input-mouse and xf86-input-keyboard. Will I need to do the same in gentoo? ANd do I need to specify these inside my make.conf?

d2_racing · Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:09 pm Post subject:

d2_racing · Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:12 pm Post subject:

Also, I suggest that your current /etc/make.conf :

d2_racing · Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:16 pm Post subject:

And yeah, I changed your cflags, because you have a AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_4000+ and I want to make sure that your current installation will be able to use all the power of your cpu.

If you change your cflags, I suggest that you run this :

d2_racing · Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:18 pm Post subject:

By the way, did you build your kernel the manual way or did you use Genkernel ?

dragos240 · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 252

d2_racing · Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:34 pm Post subject:

dragos240 · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 252

dragos240 · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 252

[quote="dragos240"]

dragos240 · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 252

Here's my new emerge --info:
Http://pastebin.com/d589c19e1

d2_racing · Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:51 pm Post subject:

That's not the emerge --info

Can you post this :