On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I got caught, apparently like many others, installing Gentoo to another PC. > I've been running Ubuntu (probably Intrepid Ibex, two versions ago), so I > know this video adapter is supported. But various issues have ambushed me > in trying to get this working. > > 1. On first install, the keyboard didn't work. I followed the > instructions to the letter, the mouse even worked, but the keyboard > didn't. I killed off the windows one by one with the mouse, and the > machine was then stalled in that state. > > 2. I remembered a keyboard issue from my home machine, involving a new > version of xorg, so I (unwisely perhaps) added the ~amd64 keyword to > make.conf. Thereupon followed a series of issues, involving one hypothesis > after another. I never saw a screen with the "X" cursor again. > > 3. There is an issue surrounding HAL. I added a hal keyword, recompiled, > tweaked the kernel: no good. I got a black screen. Keyboard wasn't > working, so I followed a few more hunches. I was unable to read the docs > in a nice screen, as I was using links. > > 4. Eventually I decided to put the hal keyword back in, and recompiled. In > the interim I had removed the ~amd keyword from make.conf, and I ran emerge > -uDav --newuse world. Thinking better of it, a few merges into that, I > replaced the ~amd64 keyword, and started the same process. I found along > the way that I needed to serially recompile the kernel, re-merge > xf86-input-*, etc., again. I then decided to enable evdev, even though I > was intimidated by that from my earlier issue with an nvidia card. > > 5. I finally read some forum topics and mailing list threads. Apparently > this is not uncommon at ALL. A gentoo wiki article about the Intel cards > was referred to, but is unavailable. Interestingly, even the google cache > is clear of these missing gentoo wiki articles! > > I've finally left the machine overnight to run it's course of > re-installation etc. If that doesn't work, I have already copied over the > grub.conf entry for the ubuntu install on the same disk, so that's an > option. > > I guess my question is what is the correct way to go about installing > gentoo on a machine with these on board Intel adapters? > > [I can reinstall the whole system once I figure out what's going on. I > must have this machine working within 24 hours, though, hence Ubuntu looms > on the horizon.] > > > Alan Davis > > You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but > when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the > bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing---that's what > counts. > > ----Richard Feynman >
the same as always, You emerge your base system. Then kernel. Then X. X drivers. Graphics, Mouse, Keyboard. You can either use evdev or kbd for keyboard. I prefer the later one. Hal or not doesn't make much of a difference. The important thing is: after an X update you must reinstall the input drivers!
