[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

[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

[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: