[gentoo-user] Video card settings for Intel UHD 630?
My current machine has VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" in make.conf. My new machine, under "lspci -v", shows... 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 630 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) DeviceName: Onboard - Video Subsystem: Dell UHD Graphics 630 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 255 Memory at d000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at c000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at 4000 [size=64] Expansion ROM at 000c [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [40] Vendor Specific Information: Len=0c Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [ac] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [100] Process Address Space ID (PASID) Capabilities: [200] Address Translation Service (ATS) Capabilities: [300] Page Request Interface (PRI) What are the recommended settings in make.conf, and the kernel, etc? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
[gentoo-user] HDD standby (hdparm/hd-idle) not working with kernel newer than 5.4.72
On my main system (up-to-date gentoo), I use hd-idle to send my HDDs to standby after a certain amount of time. Disks are SATA HDDs in non-RAID operation - 4xHGST, 1xWDC, 1xSamsung - same behavior for all. Up to kernel version 5.4.72 this worked perfectly fine. If I use any kernel greater than 5.4.* the disks stay up perpetually. I tried with versions 5.6.4, 5.7.6, 5.8.14, 5.11.6 and 5.12.8. Same for hdparm. I think something is accessing the disks (I checked with a command I cannot recall right now). To be clear, if I boot with 5.4.72, everything works as expected. If, on the same system without any changes, I boot into a later kernel - no standby. For context: I use my system as desktop and NAS simultaneously. The disks which are rarely accessed are sent to sleep quickly and the ones accessed more frequently have a longer timeout. Depending on the active/standby state of all disks, I then send the whole system to sleep.
[gentoo-user] gdm is running Xwayland, what about startx?
I've noticed that my gdm system is running /usr/bin/Xwayland instead of /usr/bin/Xorg, so I infer that Gentoo devs, or upstream, are preferring it now. Can i try Xwayland with startx? pstree shows the execution paths as below. Inscrutable to me and interesting that they're so different. gdm: systemd -> gnome-shell -> Xwayland startx: startx -> xinit -> X (AND in parallel) gnome-session -> gnome-shell
