New install on Acer laptop

DONAHUE · Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 12:35 am Post subject:

Check that dbus and udev are running:

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DONAHUE · Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 6:11 am Post subject:

pls post

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DONAHUE,
Posted as http://paste.pocoo.org/show/403683.

Thank you.

DONAHUE · Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:39 pm Post subject:

should have thought about this days ago.

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DONAHUE,
Looks like it's a bug in latest udev.

DONAHUE · Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 10:08 pm Post subject:

you need a display manager/window manager/desktop most usually emerge gnome or emerge kdebase-meta or emerge xfce4-meta or some other choice you prefer.
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ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3610

Wait,
I can't run plain X anymore? I have to have KDE/GNOME/etc.?

And what about dri and dri2?

Thank you.

DONAHUE · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 12:41 am Post subject:

dri comments are just comments, statements of fact, not problems.
there is no real reason to run X without a decent user interface. The list of not found:
xclock
twm
xterm
can be emerged to give a rudimentary and essentially useless user interface. They used to be provided in the Xserver package but not for a couple of years now.

If you decide to emerge a GUI, gentoo will likely have a guide for it. For the main GUI's, a session file will be created in /etc/X11/Sessions. The name of this file should be used in a rules file to designate the session to be run when X starts, example:

ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3610

DONAHUE,
Let's continue this thread.

I installed GNOME and successfully started it. And now I'm trying to tweak the system.
The very first thing I am trying to do is to follow Power Management Guide. I got confused a little at the first steps: differentiating between default and battery runlevels, but that's can be sorted out later. I see that GNOME by default reacts to power cord plugging/un-plugging so this is OK.

However, CPU scaling didn't work as expected.
It worked at first inside GNOME when I installed cpufreqd, but after reboot I got this:

[quote]
cpufreqd requires the kernel to be configured with CONFIG_CPU_FREQ
Make sure that the appropriate kernel drivers for your CPU are
built-in or loaded.
ERROR: cpufreqd failed to start
[/code]

I have CONFIG_CPU_FREQ option enabled and I chose AMD processor there.
What's wrong?

Also on the bootup I am getting this:

DONAHUE · Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 9:38 pm Post subject:

first what I know about:
" * WARNING: rc_sys not defined in rc.conf. Falling back to automatic detection" can be ignored all is working as it was intended.

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DONAHUE,
Do I need a firmware in order for my wireless card to work? Where do I get it?

I have another laptop which has Broadcom device and for which I had to grab the firmware from the Windows driver and then cut it and everything works.

Right now if I try to connect I am not getting anything from wpa_supplicant and dmesg just says "Link is not ready". The wireless light on the laptop is on after "ifconfig wlan0 up", but trying to connect using the same command as in the other laptop didn't give me any connection.

I can try to connect using the driver from the RescueCD from which I did the install. But if someone can give me a clear picture about it it would be better.

Thank you.

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DONAHUE,
I am also getting this:

DONAHUE · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 11:01 pm Post subject:

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DONAHUE,
It looks like I don't have a proper driver for my sound card.

DONAHUE · Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 8:40 pm Post subject:

DONAHUE · Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 8:54 pm Post subject:

kernel config for sound

ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3610

DONAHUE,
I re-compiled the kernel and started the alsa service. Now, it looks like I have the sound.

And here is the output of lsusb:

DONAHUE · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:58 am Post subject:

Eliminate ipv6 from the kernel config:

cach0rr0 · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 4:15 am Post subject:

most of these laptop webcams use the uvcvideo driver (USB_VIDEO_CLASS), so can probably nuke those GSPCA drivers

my acer laptop uses uvcvideo, for what it's worth. of course, so does my cheapy HP DV4

user needs to be in the 'video' group to use the webcam
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ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3610

DONAHUE,
OK, I will try that.
However, on another laptop (DELL Inspiron E1505 with Broadcom card) I have IPv6 enbled. It uses 2.6.36-r8 gentoo-sources and it connects without any problem.
cach0rr0,
I will try to do exactly that.

Thank you.

ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3610

DONAHUE,
I turned off IPv6, turned on FUSE support, because I need vmware-server and included the webcam drivers.
After re-compiling the kernel X don't want to start any more.

The log file can be found here.
The kernel config file can be found here.

Any idea what changed?

Thank you.

P.S.: What also would be nice to have is framebuffer support on the boot-up. Because the boot-up terminal is only 80x25.

DONAHUE · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 7:23 pm Post subject:

the segfault should mean that xorg/fglrx is trying to use memory that is reserved for some other program.
emerge xorg-server $(qlist -IC x11-drivers) reboot, startx
if that fails, try removing fuse support, reboot, startx.
if no change try removing the webcam support, reboot, startx.
if no change add ipv6 back in, reboot, startx
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