[SOLVED] Installing Gentoo - Need help and guidance

Zacariaz · 07-01-2011, 04:02 PM

Ok, so I've read through the use.desc and picked out a few flags of interest:
X acpi alsa apm fbcon -gnome gtk -kde sse2 wifi

I don't know how many of these are needed, or what they'll do exactly. As I'm going to run fluxbox, I assume I'll need X supports, but not kde or gnome. I don't know about gtk. fbcon has to do with console framebufffer, but I'm not quite sure what difference it'll do. sse2 is just sse2, nothing much to say about that. Alsa seems welcome, but apm and acpi is another story, I really don't know. I didn't find MMX in the list, though it's part of the standard use falgs, what does that mean exactly?

Now my head hurts again, but it's okay, I'm having fun, though I'd really like to get these use flags overwith. They're really confusing.

Please comment.

Thanks.

andrewthomas · 07-01-2011, 04:54 PM

Did you read the thread and the links that I posted concerning USE flags?

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...1/#post4393042

At this point, you can just go with the flow a bit.

Zacariaz · 07-01-2011, 04:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewthomas

Did you read the thread and the links that I posted concerning USE flags?

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...1/#post4393042

At this point, you can just go with the flow a bit.

I did read it, but I'm not sure what you want me to learn from it. Unless I missed something it basically provides a list of possible use flags and an advise to follow the handbook, which honestly isn't of much use when it comes to this, in my opinion.

So unless you want me to make no alterations at all, that is to go with the profile and leace the default mmx, sse and sse2, I'm afraid I'm missing something.

andrewthomas · 07-01-2011, 09:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zacariaz

I did read it, but I'm not sure what you want me to learn from it. Unless I missed something it basically provides a list of possible use flags and an advise to follow the handbook, which honestly isn't of much use when it comes to this, in my opinion.

So unless you want me to make no alterations at all, that is to go with the profile and leace the default mmx, sse and sse2, I'm afraid I'm missing something.

No, I just wanted you to get a look at the list. Here is what I use (I used to use GNOME but now have moved to LXDE)

Globals in /etc/make.conf

Code:

USE="mmx sse sse2 sse4a -gnome -kde -minimal -mono -qt4 -bluetooth -cups -hal
     alsa bash-completion branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr compiz consolekit css curl
     curlwrappers cvs dbus device-mapper dri drm dvd dvdr encode ffmpeg fontconfig ftp
     gallium git gnome-keyring introspection jpeg lame libnotify lock 
     logrotate lua lxde lzma lzo mad mce mmap mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer multimedia
     ncurses networkmanager ogg opengl pam pdf perl png policykit pulseaudio python
     session sndfile sockets sound startup-notification svg symlink syslog toolame
     truetype udev unicode usb x264 xine xv xvid X zlib"

and local flags in /etc/portage/package.use

Code:

app-admin/conky imlib iostats lua-cairo lua-imlib nano-syntax rss weather-metar weather-xoap
app-portage/eix optimization
dev-libs/libxml2 icu
gnome-base/gdm -doc
gnome-base/gvfs gdu -http
media-libs/gst-plugins-base orc
media-libs/mesa -egl
media-video/ffmpeg 3dnowext schroedinger faac faad mmxext vpx threads theora
media-video/mjpegtools sdl
media-video/mplayer 3dnowext ass -cdio dirac doc dv dvdnav enca faac faad iconv ipv6 live network osdmenu rar real rtc schroedinger sdl shm speex theora tremor xscreensaver xv vpx
net-misc/networkmanager doc dhcpcd resolvconf
sys-apps/portage python2 doc
sys-auth/consolekit pam policykit doc
sys-auth/pambase consolekit
sys-block/parted device-mapper
sys-fs/udev extras
virtual/ffmpeg X encode mp3 theora x264 threads
x11-base/xorg-drivers radeon
x11-libs/cairo gallium
x11-libs/libdrm libkms video_cards_radeon
x11-wm/compiz-fusion emerald -kde unsupported

Zacariaz · 07-02-2011, 05:20 AM

following the handbook

Quote:

rc-update add net.eth0 default

Quote:

* rc-update: service `net.eth0' does not exist

have no idea what that implies. The network interface should be called eth0 so what's wrong?

Zacariaz · 07-02-2011, 06:05 AM

Oh well, this time at least I got to reboot. Obviously it didn't work, but better luck next time.

I'm still interested in an alternative to the handbook if anyone know of it, because there are areas that are... well, it could be done better.

I should note that it's probably the ext4 filesystem coursing trouble, though I don't suppose there's a quick fix for that.

andrewthomas · 07-02-2011, 12:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zacariaz

following the handbook

have no idea what that implies. The network interface should be called eth0 so what's wrong?

If you are not planning on using NetworkManager you can create a symlink to net.lo

Code:

ln -s /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.eth0
rc-update add net.eth0 default

Zacariaz · 07-07-2011, 09:08 AM

Think I'll close this thread for now as my netbook is now broken and back in the shop for repair.

But thank you for all your help. I'll give it another go sometime.

Best regards.