Setup Gentoo on Asus U30JC-QX010X : Part 3 - X

This post is greatly inspired from Gentoo Xorg How-To. Edit 2010-07-27 :

• Replaced vesa by intel in VIDEO_CARDS. Using vesa cannot scale X to 1366x768 and it is not compatible with vesa framebuffer.
• nvidia is not working. It is better to remove it to avoid problems when enabling xorg-x11 opengl (conflict between lib32 and lib64 folders).

Edit /etc/make.conf and define both INPUT_DEVICES and VIDEO_CARDS :

INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics keyboard mouse"
VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia intel"

Edit use flags for a couple of packages needed for X. You can group these settings in /etc/portage/package.use/X :

media-fonts/corefonts X
media-fonts/dejavu X
sys-apps/dbus X
sys-apps/hal laptop X
x11-base/xorg-server hal
x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics hal

Emerge Xorg :

emerge xorg-server
env-update && source /etc/profile

Select xorg-x11 (this might be not necessary) ;

eselect opengl set xorg-x11

Emerge hal :

emerge hal
rc-update add hald default

Update keymap if needed :

mkdir -p /etc/hal/fdi/policy
cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy

<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">fr</merge>

/etc/init.d/hald restart

Add yourself to the video group (maybe not needed). Nvidia (I fail to use Nvidia and the Geforce 310m for now. No better result with 256.35) : /etc/portage/package.keywords/X :

~sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.33-r2 ~amd64
~sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.34-r1 ~amd64
~x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.24 ~amd64
~x11-libs/libvdpau-0.3-r2 ~amd64

Emerge kernel, nvidia-drivers, glx tools (like glxgears) :

emerge gentoo-sources-2.6.33-r2
emerge nvidia-drivers-195.36.24
emerge mesa-progs

module-rebuild will rebuild the necessary packages when upgrading your kernel :

emerge module-rebuild
module-rebuild populate
module-rebuild rebuild

Configure Xorg :

Xorg -configure

Copy /root/xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. You need to comment the Nvidia section to keep only vesa (Nvidia fails).

#Section "Device"
# Identifier  "Card0"
# Driver      "nvidia"
# VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
# BoardName   "Unknown Board"
# BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
#EndSection

Emerge enlightenment. It is also a good idea to add xterm and some font packages. Set enlightenment default :

emerge enlightenment corefonts dejavu xterm

~/.xinitrc :

exec /usr/bin/e16

At this point, once the new kernel has been installed, you should be able to start enlightenment safely (with intel driver only for now). For info, small kernel updates :

diff config-2.6.33-r2.0 config-2.6.33-r2.7

< CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=m
< CONFIG_I2C_ALGOBIT=y
> CONFIG_I2C_ALGOBIT=m
< CONFIG_AGP=y
< CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y
< CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y
> CONFIG_AGP=m
> CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m
< CONFIG_DRM=y
< CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=y
> CONFIG_DRM=m
> CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=m
< CONFIG_DRM_I915=y
> CONFIG_DRM_I830=m
> CONFIG_DRM_I915=m
< CONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL=y
< CONFIG_FB=y
> CONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL=m
> CONFIG_FB=m
> CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y
< CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y
< CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y
< CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y
> CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=m
> CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=m
> CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=m
< CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING=y
< CONFIG_FB_EFI=y
> CONFIG_FB_UVESA=m
< CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE=64
> CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE=256
< CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
> CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=m
> CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_MONO=y
> CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_VGA16=y

Nvidia errors :

NVRM: failed to copy vbios to system memory.
NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x30:0xffffffff:868)
NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed