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Geert1
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 Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject: Gentoo on Everex Green pc |
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Did anybody try Gentoo on Everex Gpc?
Gentoo would be a nice fit to make the best of the available resources... |
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carl.anderson
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject: exerex va1500v laptop |
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I bought the laptop because it was cheap - $400 at the time and now it's $350.
It comes with Ubuntu installed but I had problems upgrading the packages. I tried Gentoo but was unable to get X to start. The graphics chip is a Chrome9 HC so I tried the latest openchrome drivers. I ran to get the xorg.conf, but on startup the screen would just go black. At that point I had to press Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot. The Xorg log indicated that X was stuck in an infinite loop starting up.
So I switched to the latest Ubuntu and was able to get native 1440x900 right off the bat. It's nice but it's also slow. Has anyone gotten this to work in Gentoo? |
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Kobboi
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:08 am Post subject: |
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Having a working Ubuntu setup should allow you to get it working under Gentoo as well. Copy the xorg.conf, for one  Save a copy of the kernel configuration, the loaded modules and maybe a dmesg trace as well. |
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carl.anderson
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:33 pm Post subject: Have you ever looked at a Ubuntu kernel config? |
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The Ubuntu kernel is, I think, custom sources. I downloaded the kernel sources using apt-get and looked at the config via make menuconfig - everything and everything is loaded as a module.
A Ubuntu xorg.conf is spartan at best. It looks like they are handing off the configuration details to something else - there are no modelines or driver options, etc. There is magic / voodoo in there. |
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Kobboi
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:41 am Post subject: Re: Have you ever looked at a Ubuntu kernel config? |
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| carl.anderson wrote: |
A Ubuntu xorg.conf is spartan at best. It looks like they are handing off the configuration details to something else - there are no modelines or driver options, etc. There is magic / voodoo in there. |
In three years of Linux/Gentoo, I have never put any modeline in my xorg.conf either |
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carl.anderson
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 1:33 am Post subject: xorg.confusing |
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You're going to make me prove it. Very well. Here it is with comments removed: | Code: | Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection |
Call me skeptical, but I don't think this will work in Gentoo. How does it remember the resolution I changed it to and which color depth? Where is the video driver specified? |
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