Gentoo

[viking60]

Ok looking good though installed dhcpcd (dhcp-client) and cleaned out all my settings in /etc/conf.d/net - so I am back on a running and communicating Gentoo - happy as a peach.
No hal tho...

[viking60]

compiling gnome......

[viking60]

Still compiling Gnome... Man that does take a long time...... It's been 2 hours now...
Finaly finished.
Quite a nice comand to autostart demons must write it down

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rc-update add sshd default

starts the ssh demon on boot - you can autostart any demon like this - nice.

[viking60]

Man i am going bananas over this Xorg shit what TH is AGPGART and how do I implement it in the kernel. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Oh well the monitor is broken on th laptop anyway so I just set up a server. Installing apache...

[dedanna1029]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGPgart

In computing, AGPgart is a kernel module for Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris that supports the extra data transfer features of Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) video cards via the Graphics Address Remapping Table (GART).

The AGPgart driver module uses system memory to enhance the display of graphics — a useful feature for memoryless graphics devices such as Intel integrated graphics and AGP graphics, which need to use system memory as video buffers.

Desktop computers using Intel 810/815g/855-series graphics devices can achieve higher resolution of screen images under Xorg xserver with only 1 mebibyte of BIOS-allocated video RAM. Developers of video drivers can utilize the AGPgart driver to allocate system memory for 2D display or 3D display and to manage AGP devices.

AGPgart support was introduced into Solaris Express Developer Edition as of its 7/05 release.

Quite a bit of this is linked to other links. Best to go check it out at the link I posted at first here.

[viking60]

Be assured I am not going to check it out - I am sick of it. Gentoo is hell on this thoshiba laptop. I''ll just set up the server. I'll tell you Gentoo better be good after all this time.

[dedanna1029]

http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/gart/README

Build instructions

To patch the kernel, you must have a recent copy of the 2.2 kernel source.
The patches should work with a kernels of 'nearby' version numbers, though
unfortunately I don't have testing data on which patch works with which
kernel. certainly the 2.2.10 patch applies cleaning as far back as 2.2.7,
and the 2.2.13 patch works fine with 2.2.14 and 2.2.15.

The patch against 2.2.16 contains a number of improvements over the
earlier patches. Use it if you can.

Now, assuming you've unpacked the kernel into /usr/src/linux:

cd /usr/src
cat /path/to/newagp/agpgart-<kernel-version> | patch -p1
cd linux
make config/menuconfig

enable development code/drivers under "code maturity"
enable /dev/agpgart support under "character devices"
you must also include support for your particular motherboard chipset.
If unsure of the exact model of your chipset a quick look at the output
from lspci or a look at the file /proc/pci should be enough to identify it.

rebuild your kernel, install and reboot. More information on this process
in general can be found in the Linux Kernel-HOWTO, available for example
at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html

Do note that you really need to reboot with the new kernel. The patch
contains patches to the memory subsystem which the agpgart module won't work
without.

There should now be a /dev/agpgart device, major 10, minor 175.
If you don't have /dev/agpgart you can create it with the following command:
mknod /dev/agpgart c 10 175

Enter the newagp source directory and type "make". This should build
the testgart program.

as root:
modprobe agpgart (load the driver)
./testgart (it should successfully allocate some memory and test it)

If all goes well, you're ready to use the gart device with the utah-glx
drivers. Congratulations.


Please see utah-glx.sourceforge.net for more information on the utah-glx
project. This is the "new" agpgart module, matching the one that was
added to the mainline kernel at v2.3.31. There was an older "gart"
module used early in development, now obsolete. It can be identified as
using a /dev/gart interface at node 174, 0. Note that some drivers,
particularly the one for the Intel i810 chipset may require the older
module.

A bit dated, but I think the general process would still be the same or similar.

[viking60]

Ok I see you are stubborn about this so I will implement it, but only on the virtualbox. The LAMP server installation is going just fine om my laptop.

[dedanna1029]

Just giving the information to ya. It's yours to do with or not as you like.

[viking60]

Ok thank you! Will install Arch then

[dedanna1029]

Hope you don't run into the issues I did with usb drives.

[viking60]

I am bound to run into some I have a Toshiba equium that my daughter broke the LCD screen on so I need an external monitor. That of course must be set up manually.