AMD 64bit, Kernel 3.8 works fine with UEFI boot by refind boot manager. Kernel 3.10-r1 hangs :( No boot screen at all. I know about the rootfstype parameter advice, but my rootfs is jfs (not ext3-4), and boot partition is ext2. Advice needed, I have 2 questions about the situation:

1. Which kernel ...

I have the same mainboard (Asus sabertooth 990 Fx) and installed in bios mode. No uefi stuff needed for booting my maschine. I bought it seperatly not bundled with a PC. Maybe i have an older BIOS/EFI...
Bye
schorsch

The key was plugging the keyboard in special USB connector. W\o this keyboard ...

OK, finally I managed to install! Short manual for Asus 990FX rev 1 and Windows onboard

1. First of all, plug your keyboard in USB slot near DIN keyboard slot. It's the first time I see not equal USB slots on mainboard :o
2. Install refind , as written HERE http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind ...

First of all, THANKS to all helpers - SystemResqueCD booted OK. Maybe, refind helps - S...CD was not booting w\o it, maybe, new version... More questions about installation (maybe, not only about Gentoo, but refind, uefi and other related stuff)

1) Is initrd mandatory for successfull uefi boot? I ...

dAlexis ....

You should be able to work arround this using rEFInd , see the documentation section on secureboot .

HTH & best ... khay

Hm... seems to me, that MB have no built-in secure boot. I was preparing to everything, but refind installed w\o any problem. No tricks with keys - simply ...

I am trying to install on asus sabertooth 990 fx (rev 1, not 2). By the way! If you want to purchace this <several lines are self-censored>, BEWARE! There are no swithces for turning secure boot off. While booting in non-uefi mode, install cd simply hangs on startup, live DVD hangs farther, but ...

Question about RAID mode and kernel drivers:

Kernel 2.6.31-r3,
CONFIG_SATA_MV=m
CONFIG_MD_RAID0=y

Dmesg says:

dmesg | grep ahci
ahci 0000:00:12.0: version 3.0
ahci 0000:00:12.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
ahci 0000:00:12.0: AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 4 ports 3 Gbps 0xf impl SATA ...

After kernel 2.6.31 (normal alsa x-fi drivers) it's solved. For transferring sound data form saa7134 to primary sound card used the script below:


#!/bin/sh
sox --buffer 16384 -r 32000 -t alsa hw:1,0 -t alsa hw:0,0 &
soxpid=$!
sleep 0.5
tvtime
kill $soxpid


At last, TV is working (nearly ...

And how about the link below? (rpms/tvtime/devel tvtime-1.0.2-alsamixer2.patch)

http://osdir.com/ml/fedora-extras-commits/2009-06/msg09497.html

It's not only one link, you may find other copies. Is it possible to implement the patch in portage? OSS is deprecated, I think, that ALSA patch is ...

Anybody managed to use tv-card with PCI sound transferring with ctxfi? - described at link below

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-468139.html

tvtime don't see sound any analog tv channel... Mplayer is the same, I tried all from /dev/snd...

Hm, after 3 years, new ati 9.6 drivers, kernel 2.6.30-r1 and unworkability of the card in vista after winupdate, I made the second attempt. Much better - all analog channels found by tvtime, but no sound. I have ctxfi driver installed, but tvtime is looking for /dev/mixer. All sound devices are in ...

Which card do you have - 9.6 is working with R600 or newer. Try to set your card by BusId "PCI:3:0:0" ( CHECK your card by lspci!!!! )

Thanks for reply,

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV516 [Radeon X1300/X1550 Series]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc ...

Which card do you have - 9.6 is working with R600 or newer. Try to set your card by BusId "PCI:3:0:0" ( CHECK your card by lspci!!!! )

Try ChipID 0xXXXX too (from http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gent ... 4_nodevice )

Thanks dAlexis

Currently, my system has following installed,

Xorg-server : 1.5.3-r6
app-admin/eselect-opengl: : 1.0.7
app-admin/eselect : 1.1.1
ati-drivers : 8.593
Kernel : 2.6.28-gentoo-r3

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I am going to retry ati-drivers - 9.6 now on 2.6.30-gentoo by using startx, will keep you posted ...

emerge --info (config is not fittng :( - write me, if several other sections needed)


emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.30-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname ...

Your system is AMD64? - I may post my kernel .config and emerge -- info. I think, that for 32bit it's not helpful indeed.

Hello, thanks for the reply

Yes, mine is amd64 aswell.

Here is it:
.config

#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
# Linux kernel version: 2.6.30-gentoo-r1 ...

I am having a problem trying to use the new ati drivers. I keep getting this error when I try to load the fglrx driver.

FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.30-zen1/video/fglrx.ko): Cannot allocate memory

I have tried kernels 29, 30 and 30-zen1 with no luck. It seems to build fine but ...

when you say working, do you mean X loads.

Or do you mean you can move windows and it does so smoothly without jerkiness?

At least it works -it's the first working driver from 8.11 for me. I was not moving windows fast (will be checked this evening), but exactly no flickering while playind HDTV ...

My system is working with 9.6 ati-drivers. 2.6.30-r1, amd64, 4870X2. It's needed to unmask the newest eselect and eselect-opengl. W/o this - warning during eselect about libdri. In addition, xorg-1.5.3-r7 is unmasked too. I was simply trying, will it work, or not, and ops- working. How it works with ...

Same thing on 64 bits. Your system is AMD64?

After the last week update plasma often freezes for 3-4 seconds.

Fixed after re-compiling kdelibs and plasma-workspace with the newest gcc. But next problem happened:


emerge -DNuv world

<...eaten by mice...>

!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled ...

After the last week update plasma often freezes for 3-4 seconds. I can't imagine, why. Simply working, and ops! - mouse stopped moving for several seconds. Look on top - plasma stays on top place. It's on phenom 9850 Black edition 4 cores... In addition ebuild for x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.561 is ...

I installed xfcde-4.6 to try since my kde-4.2 kept crashing.
I did emerge kde-meta:4 to get kde-4.2.1 but it boots to an empty, black screen.
Pressing alt-f2 brings a small window (krunner).
Pressing ctl-escape brings up the task list.
So it is partially working but no k-menu makes it impossible to ...

Yes, I see the same. Due to this new palsma & plasma addons to kde 4.2 cannot be installed. Anybody knows, where xorg-server-1.5.3-gentoo-patches-07.tar.bz2 is placed? Google says nothing...

Anybody managed to setup keyboard layout switching (xorg 1.5.3) using file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11-input.fdi??? After sending a command in xterm

setxkbmap -rules evdev -model pc105+inet -layout us,ru -option "grp:lwin_toggle,grp_led:scroll,grp:alt_shift_toggle"

layout sitching works OK. It ...