{"id":22,"date":"2016-11-10T15:47:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T15:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hestben.se\/HestbenTechnical\/?p=22"},"modified":"2016-11-10T15:47:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T15:47:56","slug":"a-noobs-guide-to-installing-gentoo-on-a-core-i5-2500k-part2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hestben.se\/HestbenTechnical\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"A noobs guide to installing Gentoo on a core i5 2500K part2"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, now I have a bootable system, but starting in text mode is not very useful for normal day activity, so I continued following the guides final steps <\/a>creating a user.
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

Then I emerged app-editors\/vim<\/code> (I really missed vim in the chroot system) and sys-apps\/etckeeper<\/code> to keep track of my changes in \/etc.<\/p>\n

Next is to install a desktop environment. I’m choosing XFCE, so I followed the guide here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Using the instructions to start xfce didn’t work though, because I have apparently not installed xorg yet. I found the Gentoo guide for Xorg here<\/a>. There, I\u00a0determined that I need to find out the video card. I have a built in intel graphics card I am using. I found the Gentoo guide<\/a> for this.
\nI added the debug<\/code> and dri<\/code> USE flags in \/etc\/portage\/make.conf<\/code>.<\/p>\n

!!!Note:<\/b>I later found out, that the USE flags are optional, and that you should choose the ones you want. So debug<\/code> was really not useful for me, because all packages were recompiled with that flag.<\/p>\n

There are some USE flags that are not showing in emerge --info<\/code> that I added:
\ndri3 sna uxa xvmc<\/code>
\nI added this line in the \/etc\/portage\/package.use\/intel<\/code>:
\nx11-drivers\/xf86-video-intel dri3 sna uxa xvmc<\/code>
\nAfter running the command
\nemerge --ask --changed-use --deep @world<\/code>
\nDuring that, I ran into some strange error complaining about “econf failed” and perl module not being found. From this forum question<\/a>, I tried the solution perl-cleaner --all<\/code>, and that did the trick.
\nI added my user to the video group.
\nI chose the classical way of configuring Xorg, and emerged the x11-drivers\/xf86-video-intel package.
\nNow, startx<\/code> works, and starts xfce4, as specified in the file ~\/.xinitrc<\/code>.<\/p>\n

Next, I also want a login manager. So I installed slim according to the instructions in the Xfce guide<\/a>.
\nWhen logging in, it didn’t work though. Only an empty black screen was displayed. I looked at the log in \/var\/log\/slim.log\/<\/code> and saw some complaints about dbus not running. So I looked in the Slim guide<\/a>, and added dbus to the default run level with the command:
\nrc-update add dbus default<\/code>
\nNow, I can log in and it starts up the Xfce-environment.
\nBut, the keyboard layout is default, and I want a Swedish dvorak layout, so I searched and found this thread<\/a> saying that you need to configure that in Xorg. I looked in the Xorg wiki<\/a> and added the file \/etc\/X11\/xorg.conf.d\/00-keyboard.conf<\/code> with the content
\nSection \"InputClass\"
\n Identifier \"system-keyboard\"
\n MatchIsKeyboard \"on\"
\n Option \"XkbLayout\" \"se\"
\n Option \"XkbModel\" \"kinesis\"
\n Option \"XkbVariant\" \"dvorak\"
\nEndSection<\/code>
\nNow, it works like a charm.
\nNext stop is installing some useful programs, like a web browser. I will cover this in the next part of my journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, now I have a bootable system, but starting in text mode is not very useful for normal day activity, so I continued following the guides final steps creating a user. Then I emerged app-editors\/vim (I really missed vim in the chroot system) and sys-apps\/etckeeper to keep track of my changes in \/etc. Next is … Continue reading “A noobs guide to installing Gentoo on a core i5 2500K part2”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hestben.se\/HestbenTechnical\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hestben.se\/HestbenTechnical\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hestben.se\/HestbenTechnical\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hestben.se\/HestbenTechnical\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hestben.se\/HestbenTechnical\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hestben.se\/HestbenTechnical\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.hestben.se\/HestbenTechnical\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hestben.se\/HestbenTechnical\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hestben.se\/HestbenTechnical\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hestben.se\/HestbenTechnical\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}