Indi writes: > On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 03:10:02AM +0200, Felix Miata wrote:
>> Along the way to successful boot, I attempted two emerges suggested by the >> handbook (one being Grub Legacy). Both produced "ERROR: ... (compile >> phase)..." errors. If you like, post the messages here. Be sure to include enough of the log, from the first error message on. >> Today I attempted NFS mounting only to find messages >> indicating I had neither portmap nor rpcbind running, so tried 'emerge >> portmap'. This produced similar (compile phase)... line 2140: Called die..." >> error. So did 'emerge rpcbind'. The way I normally provide logs when asking >> for help is put them on my file/web server via NFS, hence the chicken & egg >> subject line. Have you emerged nfs-utils? Is /etc/init.d/nfs running? This should take care of everything I think. > Maybe a stupid question, but have you tried run emerge --sync and emerge > -vauND world yet since installing? > >> Another problem, highly annoying, is both vga= and video= cmdline parameters >> are apparently being ignored. KMS seems married to the Trinitron's >> PreferredMode (1600x1200), which produces mousetype on the ttys, and needs >> to >> be fixed before I'll be able to accomplish much without pain trying to see >> what I'm doing. My tty PreferredMode is 1152x864, which works with openSUSE >> KMS kernels by setting video=1152x864 on cmdline. I just switched to KMS mode, and was happy that without doing anything I had the natural resolution of my display. Don't know how to change this though. Does kernel command line parameter "vga=ask" still work maybe? >> Any suggestions? Are such things in a FAQ somewhere? Do I need an older or >> newer portage than Wednesday's? The Handbook stops at Finalizing, where >> these >> questions aren't covered. There are several more howtos on gentoo.org, but I don't know if NFS and console display are covered. > Do you have your video card specified in make.conf? > Should be somthing like: > > VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" I think that's for X-related stuff only. Wonko