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 Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:56 am Post subject: Gentoo on DELL OptiPlex GX620 [guide] |
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update 7/11/2006:
upgraded to kernel 2.6.16-gentoo-r12 and xorg 7.0. everything works great.
used this as reference: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-441745.html Don't even need to modify the xorg.conf file.
Also tried Direct Rendering and worked with the first head and with Xinerama disable. I need Xinerama, and therefore, had the DRI disabled.
I have the machine setup in the following way since January 2006. The system has been running very stable for 4 months now. Use Cadence schematic drawing and layout toolset (2D graphical), Xilinx compiler, Spice simulator, GCC on it daily and never have a crash. Using Xorg-X11 6.8.99.15-r4 and xfce4 4.2.2 as only WM. Minimum software setup and nothing fancy. Of course, if something comes up that pisses me off, I will come here and give a big warning to you guys
This is to help myself and others who will be installing Gentoo onto the Dell OptiPlex GX620.
Since the installation is hardware dependent, let's start with the hardware list. The following is pulled from DELL's website when I give the Service TAG info:
| Quote: | Quantity Parts # Part Description
1 W8403 PROCESSOR, 80547, PENTIUM 4 PRESCOTT DT, 640, SKT-T, MALE
1 Y9628 INSTRUCTION, DEVIATE-TO-MCSF-L5.5
0 149DF INFORMATION, PREPARATION MATERIAL, DEVIATION, PRECISION WORKSTATION, INCREASE, #2
1 5120P CORD, POWER, 125V, 6FT, SPT2, UNSHIELDED
1 J4628 KEYBOARD, 104, UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS, UNITED STATES, ENTRY, LEAD FREE, LITEON
4 F6761 DUAL IN-LINE MEMORY MODULE, 512, 533M, 64X64, 8, 240, 1RX8
1 ND504 ASSEMBLY, DVD+/-RW, 16X, IDE (INTEGRATED DRIVE ELECTRONICS), HITACHI LG DATA STORAGE, CHASSIS 2005
1 DC164 KIT, DOCUMENTATON ON FLOPPY DISK, SOFTWARE, POWERDVD, 5.5, RELATIONSHIP LINE OF BUSINESS
1 X8760 ADAPTER, GRAPHICS, DIGITAL VIDEO INTERFACE, 2, FULL HEIGHT, LEAD FREE
1 U8360 ASSEMBLY, FLOPPY DRIVE, 1.44M, TEAC, CHASSIS 2005, LEAD FREE
1 YD586 HARD DRIVE, 160GB, S2, 7.2K, 8M, LEAD FREE, SAMSUNG
1 WD765 KIT, SOFTWARE, OVERPACK, WXPHSP2B, COMPACT DISKETTE W/DOCUMENTATION, ENGLAND/ENGLISH
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The following is captured from lspci output:
| Quote: | # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controllers cc=IDE (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01) |
BIOS version is A05; displays are two DELL 2001FP flat panels, one connected to VGA, one connected to DVI output; everything stock, no add-on cards.
What I want from the machine are:
- be able to connect to the internet
- dual head display
- dvd write
- autofs support
- nis support
- plays mp3 music and most of the movies
- don't care about video performance since it is my office box and I won't use it to play video games
Now let the fun begin:
Kernel and core system
I started with gentoo universal 2005.1. The system is configured as WinXP and Gentoo dual-boot. Since my $home is on the network, I don't need to give Gentoo too much storage:
| Quote: | # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 471M 51M 397M 12% /
udev 1009M 168K 1009M 1% /dev
/dev/sda6 7.4G 178M 6.8G 3% /var
/dev/sda7 12G 2.6G 7.9G 25% /usr
/dev/sda8 2.8G 198M 2.5G 8% /opt
/dev/sda9 380M 8.1M 352M 3% /home
/dev/sda3 5.6G 33M 5.2G 1% /tmp
shm 1009M 0 1009M 0% /dev/shm
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| Quote: | # fdisk /dev/sda
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 7417 59577021 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 7418 7904 3911827+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 7905 8634 5863725 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 8635 19452 86895585 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 8635 8696 497983+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 8697 9670 7823623+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 9671 11130 11727418+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 11131 11496 2939863+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 11497 11546 401593+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 11547 11559 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 11560 19452 63400491 7 HPFS/NTFS |
This is my make.conf:
| Code: | # cat /etc/make.conf
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
USE="-* pam nis tcpd ssl crypt X java ncurses aalib alsa cups ggl gtk \
gtk2 spell quicktime readline xmms -zlib truetype mp3 logrotate \
png gif mmx sse acpi dvd cdr opengl xv bitmap-fonts truetype-fonts \
type1-fonts dvdr jpeg tiff wmf"
SYNC="rsync://localhost:20873/gentoo-portage" |
Last line, "SYNC=...", is for bypassing the proxy service or any firewalls. You can use emerge-webrsync but I like to use SSH for anything anyway. To use it, you need to have a machine that is directly connected to the internet. Log onto the remote machine with the following command:
| Code: | | ssh $machine_name -l $user_name -L 20873:rsync.gentoo.org:873 |
Now you can open another terminal or VT and do emerge --sync
Networking
According to lspci, it is a Broadcom device. The correct kernel driver is 1000Mb (tg3). Works like a charm in 1Gb network.
Dual-head
xorg-6.8.* does not come with i945 support. Work-around is fake it to i915: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Intel_945G
Here is my xorg.conf, for dual-head setup:
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# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# **********************************************************************
# Module section -- this section is used to specify
# which dynamically loadable modules to load.
# **********************************************************************
#
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
# Load "dri"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set
# **********************************************************************
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
# FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/"
# FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TrueType/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/freefont/"
# The module search path. The default path is shown here.
# ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Server flags section.
# **********************************************************************
Section "ServerFlags"
# Option "NoTrapSignals"
# Option "DontVTSwitch"
# Option "DontZap"
# Option "Dont Zoom"
# Option "DisableVidModeExtension"
# Option "AllowNonLocalXvidtune"
# Option "DisableModInDev"
# Option "AllowNonLocalModInDev"
Option "Xinerama" "yes"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Input devices
# **********************************************************************
# **********************************************************************
# Core keyboard's InputDevice section
# **********************************************************************
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Core Pointer's InputDevice section
# **********************************************************************
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Monitor section
# **********************************************************************
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "2001FP"
DisplaySize 408 306
HorizSync 31-80
VertRefresh 56-76
Option "DPMS"
ModeLine "1600x1200" 160.00 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel945G0"
Driver "i810"
VideoRam 262144
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
Option "DPMS"
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
Screen 0
Option "DevicePresence" "yes"
Option "MonitorLayout" "CRT,DFP"
Option "NoAccel" "false"
Option "DRI" "false"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel945G1"
Driver "i810"
VideoRam 262144
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
Option "DPMS"
Option "Display" "DFP"
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
Screen 1
Option "DevicePresence" "yes"
Option "MonitorLayout" "DFP"
Option "NoAccel" "false"
Option "DRI" "false"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 0"
Device "Intel945G0"
Monitor "2001FP"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "Intel945G1"
Monitor "2001FP"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# ServerLayout sections.
# **********************************************************************
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen 0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen 1" RightOf "Screen 0"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
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Sound
Intel-HD AUDIO works out the box with kernel ALSA.
Performance measurement
SATA Disk performance:
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# hdparm -tT /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 3308 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1653.90 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 182 MB in 3.01 seconds = 60.50 MB/sec
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glxgear performance:
| Quote: | # glxgears
4235 frames in 5.1 seconds = 831.693 FPS
4200 frames in 5.1 seconds = 825.374 FPS
4200 frames in 5.1 seconds = 823.597 FPS
4200 frames in 5.1 seconds = 825.172 FPS
4200 frames in 5.1 seconds = 823.256 FPS
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| I've got a 620 also, the emt64 model, single video, ro cdrom... trying to do a net install, what nic driver did you use to get it up? |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 7:38 am Post subject: |
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Nice, when you get done have an admin move it to Documentation, Tips and Tricks.
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Khan
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 12:51 pm Post subject: xorg.conf for the 620? |
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chaonis, can you please post your xorg.conf for your Dell box? I just got one of these at work and I'm currently wiping XP and installing Gentoo. Thanks  |
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RazielFMX
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| Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 2:36 am Post subject: Ditto |
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I too just got one of these at work... Damn, tga? I've been wasting my time debugging this damn bnx2!
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Khan
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| Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 2:42 am Post subject: Re: Ditto |
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| RazielFMX wrote: | | I too just got one of these at work... Damn, tga? I've been wasting my time debugging this damn bnx2! |
I've since finally got everything working on it. If you want, I can post my xorg.conf or any other config file. Let me know. |
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manx801
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| Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 4:26 am Post subject: |
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I would be interested to see your xorg.conf. I also have just installed Gentoo on a G620 and so far have everything working except DPMS for my monitor.
Does anyone know if the G620 has hardware sensors (temp, fan speed,..)? I am pretty sure that mine does not, since my attempts at reading them have all failed and I don't see them in the BIOS setup either. Just thought I would check.
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I'm not 100% sure on this but I would change march=prescott for your make.conf as it should have more optimizations then p4 option.
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PMcCauley
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| manx801 wrote: | I would be interested to see your xorg.conf. I also have just installed Gentoo on a G620 and so far have everything working except DPMS for my monitor.
Does anyone know if the G620 has hardware sensors (temp, fan speed,..)? I am pretty sure that mine does not, since my attempts at reading them have all failed and I don't see them in the BIOS setup either. Just thought I would check.
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There are temperature sensors on that system but there is not an included way of accessing the information. I don't have access to a Dell desktop system to try this out but I did get the sensors working on my notebook using acpi.
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manx801
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| Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 4:49 am Post subject: |
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| PMcCauley wrote: |
There are temperature sensors on that system but there is not an included way of accessing the information. I don't have access to a Dell desktop system to try this out but I did get the sensors working on my notebook using acpi.
Patrick |
I tried enabling all of the I2C kernel modules and then running sensors-detect, which reported that the modules loaded without problems, and that there were no sensor chips detected. Is there something else that I could try?
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| PMcCauley wrote: | I'm not 100% sure on this but I would change march=prescott for your make.conf as it should have more optimizations then p4 option.
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I recommend either prescott or pentium3 for the march. I originally set it to p4 and it was nothing but problems. I'll post my xorg.conf file on Tuesday when I get back to work. It's set for 1400x1050 so make the changes to meet your viewing pleasure  |
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Khan
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| Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 1:28 pm Post subject: xorg.conf for my Dell Optiplex GX620 |
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Here's my conf file:
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# File generated by xorgconfig.
# **********************************************************************
# Module section -- this section is used to specify
# which dynamically loadable modules to load.
# **********************************************************************
#
Section "Module"
# This loads the DBE extension module.
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
# This loads the font modules
Load "type1"
# Load "speedo"
Load "freetype"
# Load "xtt"
# This loads the GLX module
Load "glx"
# This loads the DRI module
# Load "dri"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set
# **********************************************************************
Section "Files"
# The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
#
#
# FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
# FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/"
# FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TrueType/"
#FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/freefont"
#FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
#FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts"
# The module search path. The default path is shown here.
# ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Server flags section.
# **********************************************************************
Section "ServerFlags"
# Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is
# received. This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may
# provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging
# Option "NoTrapSignals"
# Uncomment this to disable the <Crtl><Alt><Fn> VT switch sequence
# (where n is 1 through 12). This allows clients to receive these key
# events.
# Option "DontVTSwitch"
# Uncomment this to disable the <Crtl><Alt><BS> server abort sequence
# This allows clients to receive this key event.
# Option "DontZap"
# Uncomment this to disable the <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> mode switching
# sequences. This allows clients to receive these key events.
# Option "Dont Zoom"
# Uncomment this to disable tuning with the xvidtune client. With
# it the client can still run and fetch card and monitor attributes,
# but it will not be allowed to change them. If it tries it will
# receive a protocol error.
# Option "DisableVidModeExtension"
# Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local xvidtune client.
# Option "AllowNonLocalXvidtune"
# Uncomment this to disable dynamically modifying the input device
# (mouse and keyboard) settings.
# Option "DisableModInDev"
# Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local client to
# change the keyboard or mouse settings (currently only xset).
# Option "AllowNonLocalModInDev"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Input devices
# **********************************************************************
# **********************************************************************
# Core keyboard's InputDevice section
# **********************************************************************
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
# For most OSs the protocol can be omitted (it defaults to "Standard").
# When using XQUEUE (only for SVR3 and SVR4, but not Solaris),
# uncomment the following line.
# Option "Protocol" "Xqueue"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# Option "LeftAlt" "Meta"
# Option "RightAlt" "ModeShift"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# These are the default XKB settings for Xorg
# Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
# Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
# Option "XkbLayout" "us"
# Option "XkbVariant" ""
# Option "XkbOptions" ""
# Option "XkbDisable"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Core Pointer's InputDevice section
# **********************************************************************
Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier and driver
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
# Mouse-speed setting for PS/2 mouse.
# Option "Resolution" "256"
# When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment
# the following line.
# Option "Protocol" "Xqueue"
# Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice. In
# almost every case these lines should be omitted.
# Option "BaudRate" "9600"
# Option "SampleRate" "150"
# Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button Microsoft mice
# Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms)
Option "Buttons" "6"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
# Option "Emulate3Buttons"
# Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
# ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice
# Option "ChordMiddle"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Other input device sections
# this is optional and is required only if you
# are using extended input devices. This is for example only. Refer
# to the xorg.conf man page for a description of the options.
# **********************************************************************
#
# Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "Mouse2"
# Driver "mouse"
# Option "Protocol" "MouseMan"
# Option "Device" "/dev/mouse2"
# EndSection
#
# Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "spaceball"
# Driver "magellan"
# Option "Device" "/dev/cua0"
# EndSection
#
# Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "spaceball2"
# Driver "spaceorb"
# Option "Device" "/dev/cua0"
# EndSection
#
# Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "touchscreen0"
# Driver "microtouch"
# Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
# Option "MinX" "1412"
# Option "MaxX" "15184"
# Option "MinY" "15372"
# Option "MaxY" "1230"
# Option "ScreenNumber" "0"
# Option "ReportingMode" "Scaled"
# Option "ButtonNumber" "1"
# Option "SendCoreEvents"
# EndSection
#
# Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "touchscreen1"
# Driver "elo2300"
# Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
# Option "MinX" "231"
# Option "MaxX" "3868"
# Option "MinY" "3858"
# Option "MaxY" "272"
# Option "ScreenNumber" "0"
# Option "ReportingMode" "Scaled"
# Option "ButtonThreshold" "17"
# Option "ButtonNumber" "1"
# Option "SendCoreEvents"
# EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Monitor section
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of monitor sections may be present
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "M87TXM"
# HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.
# HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
HorizSync 30-86
# HorizSync 30-64 # multisync
# HorizSync 31.5, 35.2 # multiple fixed sync frequencies
# HorizSync 15-25, 30-50 # multiple ranges of sync frequencies
# VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.
# VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
VertRefresh 50-130
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of graphics device sections may be present
# Standard VGA Device:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Standard VGA"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
# The chipset line is optional in most cases. It can be used to override
# the driver's chipset detection, and should not normally be specified.
# Chipset "generic"
# The Driver line must be present. When using run-time loadable driver
# modules, this line instructs the server to load the specified driver
# module. Even when not using loadable driver modules, this line
# indicates which driver should interpret the information in this section.
Driver "vga"
# The BusID line is used to specify which of possibly multiple devices
# this section is intended for. When this line isn't present, a device
# section can only match up with the primary video device. For PCI
# devices a line like the following could be used. This line should not
# normally be included unless there is more than one video device
# intalled.
# BusID "PCI:0:10:0"
# VideoRam 256
# Clocks 25.2 28.3
EndSection
# Device configured by xorgconfig:
Section "Device"
Identifier "GF2"
Driver "vesa"
#VideoRam 32768
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "GF2"
Monitor "M87TXM"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# ServerLayout sections.
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of ServerLayout sections may be present. Each describes
# the way multiple screens are organised. A specific ServerLayout
# section may be specified from the X server command line with the
# "-layout" option. In the absence of this, the first section is used.
# When now ServerLayout section is present, the first Screen section
# is used alone.
Section "ServerLayout"
# The Identifier line must be present
Identifier "Simple Layout"
# Each Screen line specifies a Screen section name, and optionally
# the relative position of other screens. The four names after
# primary screen name are the screens to the top, bottom, left and right
# of the primary screen. In this example, screen 2 is located to the
# right of screen 1.
Screen "Screen 1"
# Each InputDevice line specifies an InputDevice section name and
# optionally some options to specify the way the device is to be
# used. Those options include "CorePointer", "CoreKeyboard" and
# "SendCoreEvents".
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
# Section "DRI"
# Mode 0666
# EndSection
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manx801
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Thanks. I noticed that you do not enable DPMS in your xorg.conf. I have found that when I do enable it, it does not work with the vesa driver and the Intel 945 graphics chip. I think the problem might be with the vesa driver. There is some information about how to get the i810 driver working with the Intel 945 chip here:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-457349-highlight-dpms+intel+945g.html |
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Khan
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| manx801 wrote: | Thanks. I noticed that you do not enable DPMS in your xorg.conf. I have found that when I do enable it, it does not work with the vesa driver and the Intel 945 graphics chip. I think the problem might be with the vesa driver. There is some information about how to get the i810 driver working with the Intel 945 chip here:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-457349-highlight-dpms+intel+945g.html |
Historically, I have never been a fond supporter of DPMS. I usually leave my monitor on or rely on the built-in capacity of the monitor to place itself into sleep mode. Your mileage may vary  |
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chaonis
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Did not mean to start this discussion and let you guys hanging here.
I have the system up and running very stable since Janauary. Daily tools I use are including:
* Cadence circuit schematic and layout toolset, 2D graphical
* Eagle circuit schematic and layout toolset, 2D graphical
* Xilinx HDL compiler
* HSpice simulator
* GCC
* Firefox and Thunderbird,
* GAIM, vncviewer, mplayer
* acroread and flash
I am so glad that I can make Cadence tool to work under my setup. The tool itself is a beast: no better than Microsoft products, if not worse. The 2D drawing performance is great. And it runs 100 times more stable than in runs Windows environment.
Now you see I am really using the machine for work Therefore, I care most the stability and second the performance. I do not care about monitoring the temperature of the cpu nor do I care about saving energy by putting any part of the machine into sleep mode. This is also why I choose Gentoo, since I can install the minimum programs on to the machine. XFCE4 is my only WM, in case you want to know 
FYI for opengl performance:
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% glxgears
4235 frames in 5.1 seconds = 831.693 FPS
4200 frames in 5.1 seconds = 825.374 FPS
4200 frames in 5.1 seconds = 823.597 FPS
4200 frames in 5.1 seconds = 825.172 FPS
4200 frames in 5.1 seconds = 823.256 FPS
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 46904 requests (33 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
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Of course, OpenGL only works on the primary screen. If I want to cheat, I can put the glxgears window on secondary screen so the gears will disappear and the frame rate will jump up to 1050 FPS on average.
And here is my xorg.conf, enjoy:
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# **********************************************************************
# Module section -- this section is used to specify
# which dynamically loadable modules to load.
# **********************************************************************
#
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
# Load "dri"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set
# **********************************************************************
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
# FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/"
# FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TrueType/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/freefont/"
# The module search path. The default path is shown here.
# ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Server flags section.
# **********************************************************************
Section "ServerFlags"
# Option "NoTrapSignals"
# Option "DontVTSwitch"
# Option "DontZap"
# Option "Dont Zoom"
# Option "DisableVidModeExtension"
# Option "AllowNonLocalXvidtune"
# Option "DisableModInDev"
# Option "AllowNonLocalModInDev"
Option "Xinerama" "yes"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Input devices
# **********************************************************************
# **********************************************************************
# Core keyboard's InputDevice section
# **********************************************************************
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Core Pointer's InputDevice section
# **********************************************************************
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Monitor section
# **********************************************************************
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "2001FP"
DisplaySize 408 306
HorizSync 31-80
VertRefresh 56-76
Option "DPMS"
ModeLine "1600x1200" 160.00 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel945G0"
Driver "i810"
VideoRam 262144
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
Option "DPMS"
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
Screen 0
Option "DevicePresence" "yes"
Option "MonitorLayout" "CRT,DFP"
Option "NoAccel" "false"
Option "DRI" "false"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel945G1"
Driver "i810"
VideoRam 262144
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
Option "DPMS"
Option "Display" "DFP"
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
Screen 1
Option "DevicePresence" "yes"
Option "MonitorLayout" "DFP"
Option "NoAccel" "false"
Option "DRI" "false"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 0"
Device "Intel945G0"
Monitor "2001FP"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "Intel945G1"
Monitor "2001FP"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# ServerLayout sections.
# **********************************************************************
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen 0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen 1" RightOf "Screen 0"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
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RazielFMX
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Location: NY, USA
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I just built an EM64T GX620. Having X issues, but that is due to the radoenx600 and fglrx buggy dirvers.
Some things you might want to try to get an awesome build:
1) use the amd64 install, NOT THE x86! Use "march=nocona -O2 -pipe" as your cflags and CHOST='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'.
2) The NIC driver is buggy. You need to include Tigon 3, not NEII, as a MODULE. Then, place tg3 into your /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 (I assume you are using the 2.6 kernel.).
3) Once your base system is built, please follow the GCC upgrade instructions. When you run emerge -uav gcc, its gonna up you one revision. Thus, if you ever want to run an update on world, you will have issues. The amd64 live cd/stage tarball seems to come with gcc3.4.4, while gentoo has now upped to gcc3.4.5.
4) Once you have followed all the steps, including emerge -e system followed by emerge -e world, you are ready for all your other installs.
I am definately going to watch this thread, I've been through so many headaches getting this thing working right. If I think of anything else, I'll let you know. Oh, you should use 2.6.16-gentoo-r7, it has an additional sub type for the processor specifically for EM64T chips. It seems to have made a difference in performance. This should be the default kernel downloaded if you use the amd64 minimal cd.
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mark_alec
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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sl70
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I finally got my system installed after 3 tries from scratch. Each time I got the dreaded ``Error loading operating system'' BIOS error. I think the key was to emerge grub, then grub-static and then run grub.
Now I'm having trouble with X and windowmaker. I was totally saved by chaonis's xorg.conf file. I couldn't for the life of me get both monitors to display a single virtual desktop without his file. Thanks, chaonis!! However, now when windowmaker starts it crashes with signal 11. I have no idea what the problem is since I can't get it to leave a core file. (Or perhaps it does make a core file but I can't find it.) In the meantime, I'm using enlightenment, which is not so easy to set up and use.
Anyone have any ideas on how to find the problem? Thanks. |
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RazielFMX
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Try fluxbox, it's easy, highly configurable, and just plain awesome!
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sl70
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| OK. I solved my problem. The same problem that caused WindowMaker to crash was giving me big frustrations with fluxbox, too. The cause of it all was the fact that in the new modular xorg, the command that gives the path to the rgb.txt file is messed up. I had /usr/share/X11, /usr/share/X11/rgb, /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt and none of these loaded rgb.txt. The result was all kinds of error messages like, ``What the heck color is ``red''?'' Finally, after reading another thread somewhere, I commented out the RgbPath line (and also put a link in /usr/lib/X11 to /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt for good measure) and now my WindowMaker is working again!! (Sorry, this has gotten off the GX620 topic.) |
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cnagel
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| RazielFMX wrote: | Some things you might want to try to get an awesome build:
1) use the amd64 install, NOT THE x86! Use "march=nocona -O2 -pipe" as your cflags and CHOST='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'.
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Well, I *definitely* want an awesome build!  I am attempting to get the highest performance that I can out of this installation, to discover if a GX650 w/Gentoo can outperform a Proliant running Windows (both using Oracle 10g).
But my kernel panics. Here's the thing: I don't know how to map "-march=nocona" (or any of the other arch's people mention in other posts) to the "make menuconfig" selections, which are things like "Pentium 4/...", "Athlon/...", "Athlon64...".
I know this is a newbie issue. Can someone tell me where the mappings between the compiler flags and the menu choices are?
Thanks,
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devsk
Advocate
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:20 pm Post subject: Re: Gentoo on DELL OptiPlex GX620 [guide] |
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glxgear performance:
| Quote: | # glxgears
4235 frames in 5.1 seconds = 831.693 FPS
4200 frames in 5.1 seconds = 825.374 FPS
4200 frames in 5.1 seconds = 823.597 FPS
4200 frames in 5.1 seconds = 825.172 FPS
4200 frames in 5.1 seconds = 823.256 FPS
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| Code: | $ glxgears
8582 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1716.313 FPS
8876 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1775.186 FPS
9077 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1815.324 FPS
9025 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1804.989 FPS
8897 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1779.283 FPS
8890 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1777.909 FPS
9018 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1803.515 FPS
8988 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1797.527 FPS |
You can get more than double the performance by using DRI. Follow my post in this thread and enable kernel agpgart, DRM, i830, i915 and then load these modules at startup. enable DRI in xorg.conf and be happy!
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-492686-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-31.html
PS: I forgot to mention that this was on a gx620 as well. |
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cnagel
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But my kernel panics. Here's the thing: I don't know how to map "-march=nocona" (or any of the other arch's people mention in other posts) to the "make menuconfig" selections, which are things like "Pentium4/...", "Athlon/...", "Athlon64...".
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The kernel panics were a result of not setting the VEISA bus support along with the SCSI drives. Pays to look through *all* the config options. ALL of them!
And as for the processor, the GX620 needs the Pentium4 selection from MENUCONFIG, but later in the setup, you can set -march in /etc/make.conf. I have not yet done this, so not sure if I'll "be happy"!
Just thought I'd follow up for any other newbies like me doing this... Thanks for all the pointers.
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sl70
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:42 pm Post subject: GLX performance |
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| chaonis wrote: |
Of course, OpenGL only works on the primary screen. If I want to cheat, I can put the glxgears window on secondary screen so the gears will disappear and the frame rate will jump up to 1050 FPS on average.
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I wish I knew how to do this. I only get about 200 FPS on the primary screen (and 1150 FPS on the secondary screen with no display). I have a feeling that this is because for some reason the primary screen is my analog monitor and the secondary screen is the digital monitor. I would love to switch them around, but I can't figure out how. The analog VGA output is connected to a Dell 17" LCD E176FP, which is screen 0, and the digital output is connected to a 1707FP, which is screen 1.
I'm using an xorg.conf that's almost the same as chaonis's. Anyone know how I can get better GL performance on this setup?
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chaonis
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| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 11:33 pm Post subject: Re: Gentoo on DELL OptiPlex GX620 [guide] |
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I guess this applies to single head (one monitor) since xinerama and dri still don't work together. I need xinerama, and thus, no dri. |
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