Installing Gentoo on the Framework Laptop

[NeddySeagoon]

wynnmc,

Your scale factor problem is common on small high resolution screens.
I suspect you will need to fix it twice, once for the console and once for the GUI.
I've seen it reported and fixed on the forum but its not a Gentoo specific problem.
Sorry, I can't point you at a fix.

Your wifi, now named wlp166s0 looks good from the kernel point of view. It looks like its sitting there ready to be configured or started.

How do you intend to control the network interfaces?
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Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[logrusx]

Regarding the console, some of the framebuffer drivers do that. I have 2560x1600 screen and the console is all right with just EFI and VESA VGA drivers enabled. I'm not sure if VESA is really needed, but I'm not keen on experimenting.

Regarding the small things on the Xorg desktop, there's a global font scaling factor which will fix most of it, but it's different for the different DE's. For Gnome you need to set it in Gnome Tweaks.

This might apply only to Wayland: don't go for the scale in the Displays section of Gnome Control Center as it'll just resize a raster image which will result in a blurry fonts and edges.

Regards,
Georgi

[NeddySeagoon]

logrusx,

dmesg will show you the console drivers in use. The kernel may switch between drivers as a 'better' driver becomes available.
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Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[logrusx]

[wynnmc]

Thank you for all this extra help -- I didn't know it had now spread to two pages...

Well, I've solved the problem on the console -- though, as Neddy Seagoon points out, it will have to be done again in X.

I found a page in the wiki https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Fonts which advised me to install Terminus fonts -- and the largest does the job nicely.

I eventually realized that wlp166s0 not being activated could be due to the module being loaded too late so I created /etc/modules.d/network with "iwlwifi" in it and it was activated ... but it was called wlan0. Who am I to quibble over how it wants to call itself? I change the entries in wpa_supplicant.conf and ... now I have a wifi connection.

It's taken a long time but I feel I already have got my money's worth from the Framework laptop.

Next ... X

[logrusx]

I'm glad you got it figured out. Newer laptops are pain to get them all set up.

[wynnmc]

Thanks to logrusx for "equery list" -- I've used "belongs" and "depends" but not "list" and it is a welcome addition to my armoury.... and forgot the important point: there isn't an "iwd" on the machine...

I don't know if this should be a new topic...

I tried to ssh from the Framework to this laptop, a Lenovo, and it wouldn't accept the password.

Eventually I unmerged openssh, deleted /etc/ssh, known_hosts in ~/.ssh and reemerged openssh and it's working.

However, I can't get it to go the other way. I have a number of entries in the Lenovo ~/.ssh/known_hosts that I don't want to lose. I have had no trouble in connecting to other machines and, as far as I can remember, I haven't had to reinstall sshd on any of them.

On the Lenovo, I have deleted the entry in ~/.ssh/known_hosts before trying again but it still doesn't accept the Framework password.

[logrusx]

[wynnmc]

I removed the old key from ~/.ssh/known_hosts and tried again with the "verbose" argument added.

/var/log/secure didn't show anything relevant to the attempt and what came out on the console is:

[grknight]

[wynnmc]

Yes, I suddenly realized that I'd changed this some time ago -- I thought it would be OK as they are only ever accessed via the home network.

I checked the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file on the other machine and added the line

[wynnmc]

Thousand apologies -- I was altering .ssh/known_hosts on username not root

Now it's working.

Thanks for all the help.

Chris

[wynnmc]

I'm now on to X, I checked the requirements for the kernel config given in the wiki guide to X, I emerged x11-base/xorg-server and then, as it failed because there were no fonts installed, I emerged x11-base/xorg-x11.

Running startx failed with an error saying the module didn't support 4626 and I found a solution on the internet by removing i915 and then running

[wynnmc]

Apologies again -- I was reading a post "Unable to start graphical session Xfce" and saw that the OP had loaded x-11-drivers/fbdev and x11-drivers/vesa ... and I thought "I could do that"... I did and now Xfce4 is working.

I tried with x11-wm/twm first and came across the same problem I had long ago: how do you get out of it?

wynnmc

[wynnmc]

I spoke too soon -- the screen comes up with the icons on it but mouse clicks don't have any effect -- neither from the touchpad nor from a real mouse.

I will remove fbdev and vesa...

Back to the coal-face...

[logrusx]

[wynnmc]

Thank you, that's wonderful -- I actually had problems with an X1-carbon.

I can extend my German into computer territory...

Thanks, logrusx

[wynnmc]

I checked the entry in .config for i2c and it was there as a module CONFIG_MOUSE_SYNAPTICS_I2C=m -- the help also said that it will not work with the X11 Synaptics driver as it only reports relative coordinates.

However, when I emerged x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics the mouse started working with xfce4.

There was still a problem: it worked running as root but not as user:

[logrusx]