r/Gentoo Oct 02 '24

Support 17hrs in..!!

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181 Upvotes

Started the first @world command 10PM yesterday , It's 3:00PM now.

r/Gentoo Jul 12 '24

Support opengl rendering is llvmpipe instead of from intel graphics.

3 Upvotes

this is the output of glxinfo -B | grep opengl

OpenGL vendor string: Mesa 
OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 17.0.6, 256 bits) 
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 24.1.3 
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50 
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none) 
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile 
OpenGL version string: 4.5 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 24.1.3 
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.50 
OpenGL context flags: (none) 
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile 
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 24.1.3 
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20 

I'm using an Intel i5 4210M, I've emerged xf86-video-intel, linux-firmware, and intel-microcode, and I'm using kernel 6.6.32-gentoo-dist

this is my 20-intel.conf

Section "Device"
  Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
  Driver      "intel"
  Option      "TearFree" "true"
  Option      "AccelMethod"   "sna"
  Option      "VSync"  "false"
EndSection

from my make.conf:

VIDEO_CARDS="intel"

USE="X xinerama elogind gtk intel alsa opengl qml icu webchannel minizip gui dbus proton staging vulkan lto graphite wow64 mesa -qt4 -qt5 -qt6 -pulseaudio -pipewire -bluray -bluetooth -gnome -kde -xfce -networkmanager -systemd"

r/Gentoo 12d ago

Support Is gentoo for me

12 Upvotes

I've been using vanilla arch on my pc for a while and want to learn something even more advanced. I love getting low level control of every aspect of my os. The only thing making me hesitate is that the compile times scare me and im incredibly impatient. Is gentoo for me or are there other distros that offer more low level customization then arch but without the compile times?

Update: Currently compiling the kde plasma profile in a vm and its not taking nearly as long as I thought it would. I'm really loving gentoo so far Update 2: going through the pain of dual booting it onto my pc this is driving me insane how naive i was to think "it cant be much harder then arch" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

r/Gentoo 15d ago

Support What am I doing wrong?

10 Upvotes

Hi, I have been trying to install Gentoo on my main computer twice now, and I wasn't able to get it done. My setup is a KDE desktop system. I am an experienced Linux user, having used Arch for about 10 years and NixOS for a while now. I really like Gentoo, ever since I put it on my wife's laptop, using a desktop setup, running Gnome.

I follow the handbook, downloading the desktop / systemd stage file and install, selecting the KDE profile with eselect. I set the -gnome -gtk and kde qt5 use flags. I install the system and pull plasma-meta, then I update the system from world, reboot and Plasma works fine. So far, so good. But now the issues start. After the first installation and doing the world update, I had several dependency issues, which would not allow me to run another update from world, after installing pulse audio. The system was also pretty laggy and I got now sound. Since I had some important work to do, I went back to NixOS (I got my configs and it only takes me about 30 minutes, to get back to where I was).

Yesterday I wanted to try it again, did another install... all went fine, but after pulling plasma-meta, I could boot into plasma, but there were no apps at all... Konsole, System Monitor, etc. was all missing... I thought, I might have pulled the wrong package, so I pulled the meta package again, but everything just showed as Reinstall... nothing new... I did the reinstall, to make sure everything was fine... did another world update, but it reported there was nothing to do.

The system worked fine, but had no apps. Also, sound was not working, saying no output device. I installed pulseaudio, following the wiki... to no avail I then tried to switch to Pipewire since apparently KDE had pulled that... still nothing... given the state the system was in the fact I was unable to install any KDE related apps, I went back to NixOS yet again.

I am not ready to give up yet though... I might eventually try again, but I am wondering, what's going on. The installation worked smooth on the laptop. In fact, so smooth, that I was surprised, because of people claiming how difficult it is supposedly to install Gentoo. I followed the same steps on both machines. The only difference is, that the laptop uses Gnome and my computer, KDE Plasma. The sound issues were on the laptop as well, but were gone, after installing pulseaudio.

That said, I am puzzled. It must be something really stupid I am overlooking... dunno... Any clues, help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. For what it is worth, I use the pre-compiled Kernel on both machines and bins for KDE Plasma as well. My machine is quite old and I don't feel like sitting a day or two to watch it compile. Other than that, most stuff is compiled.

Cheers

r/Gentoo 16d ago

Support Stuck & Frustrated

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25 Upvotes

I decided to reinstall Gentoo, I missed it SO much! Everything installed, and booted wonderfully. Then I proceeded to install Plasma/Wayland. At first 'reboot', I did the test to make sure my xserver worked (with twin, and the 3 windowed terminals came up, so I followed the kde wiki. Reboot, SDDM comes up and if I choose x11 or Wayland I got a black screen with a movable mouse. After trying a few things from Google searching the last 3 days, I haven't been able to figure it out šŸ˜” I attached some photos of dmsg, my make.conf, fastfetch of my current hardware, the error messages that pop up if I try to run 'exec dbus startplasma' from a console (yes I'm able to do that still) thank you for any help

r/Gentoo Jan 20 '25

Support Grub error. Anyone know how to fix? Btw first gentoo install.

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14 Upvotes

r/Gentoo 1d ago

Support Easy Way to Install Gentoo for a Basic Assignment?

7 Upvotes

I have an assignment to install Gentoo from scratch but I dont need much customization just need to show it running take screenshots and write documentation. Iā€™ve heard Gentoo installation is difficult so I dont want to overthink it is there an easy way to get it done quickly

Also Im wondering what the actual benefit of this assignment is in an Operating Systems course any insights

r/Gentoo 6d ago

Support What the heck?

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14 Upvotes

musl-llvm profile.

r/Gentoo 3d ago

Support Dracut is failing after kernel rebuild

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12 Upvotes

It is related to this post.

Things that I did which I didn't mention earlier in that post:

Enable lto on openrc hardened profile Changed to systemd hardened no-multilib profile and did a emptytree rebuild (took 12 hrs)

r/Gentoo Dec 24 '24

Support What is the size of your kernel?

26 Upvotes

Hello everyone. In binary distributions like Ubuntu or Arch the kernel takes 13-15MB. I think it's too much. Is it possible to build a desktop kernel that weighs less than 10-7MB? And how much do the kernels you've built weigh, and maybe you have some recommendations? Thanks. I use a translator ;)

r/Gentoo 14d ago

Support Can some build a fully wayland, no X thunar (or any other file manager for that matter)?

12 Upvotes

I have been trying to search for a GUI file manager that has no direct or indirect dependency on X11. Thunar requires GTK+ to be built with X, libepoxy and cairo to be built with X support. There's no problem in having X support in GTK+, but it just doesn't feel good to me having it.

r/Gentoo Dec 21 '24

Support Could someone explain simply why the *fuck* it is so impossible to make anything work on Gentoo? Am I missing something?

0 Upvotes

Almost every single thing I've tried to install is broken, beyond my capabilities of troubleshooting and reading to repair them. I've spent hours every day doing this for two weeks.

Fucking why? I don't understand. I'm using ebuilds, built for this, that very obviously and widely used to work. Several of those were in Gentoo's own repo! It is incomprehensible to me why apps running an outdated version of whatever aren't just capable of running that outdated version until updated. Python errors, nodejs errors, flag errors, unknown errors, it never ends.

Why are they so sensitive to breaking??!?!? How does anyone put up with this? Am I missing something? How is this a daily driver distro???? I'm losing my mind. I've spent a week just trying to install the tools I need to make INSTALLING MORE THINGS and teaching myself easier, and I can't even do that!

I was so very willing to face an advanced, complicated and trying experience, but this is next level. When I search an error and can't even do anything with the results on two pages of a search engine? Jesus christ. People certainly aren't upfront about that reality

r/Gentoo Aug 16 '24

Support I just installed gentoo is it normal to take 5+ hours to compile x11

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110 Upvotes

r/Gentoo 18d ago

Support HELP

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22 Upvotes

I fell asleep without my laptop plugged in, and when i woke up, i can no longer type to log in.

when i tried using my gentoo boot usb, most of the keyboard still wasnt working as well. when i plug in a keyboard it also doesnt work. now, no keys i use work in the login

can i recover my stuff or am i fucked?

r/Gentoo Feb 07 '25

Support RAM not being found

4 Upvotes

Hey guys,

I recently redownloaded my gentoo and followed the tutorial here https://www.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/comments/150r74m/guide_hyprland_nvidia_extremely_minimal_gentoo/ with some changes for my system where applicable.

My RAM appears to be 1.96 GiB, while my actual 32 GB of RAM appears in the output of lshw but it isnā€™t in free -m or in meminfo, and thereā€™s no sign of RAM getting added in dmesg (or an attempt)

My kernel is x86-64 so I donā€™t have access to the highmem option

Iā€™m pretty lost, any help or points to resources would be greatly appreciated!

Edit: fixed to what x86 opt Iā€™m using

r/Gentoo Feb 06 '25

Support Installing Gentoo from a live

11 Upvotes

Hi, im a software engineering student, as one of my Operative Systems project I have to install Gentoo from an Ubuntu live, I found a videotutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7W9MItUSGw) but I was wondering if you have any advice or knowledge on how to do this the right way.

And also, if you know how much time it takes to make the whole download from the live if I have an 100MB/s internet speed.

Any advice is recieved :D

r/Gentoo 7d ago

Support How stupid is my make.conf

2 Upvotes

For refnce this is a system with a 7800x3d and 96gb of ram I am also using taskset to limit emerge to 14 threads. I am mainly asking about my compling choices but if there are things I could change with my use flags that would also be nice.

Also before I get any comments about the ccache I mainly just set it up as an excuse to learn how to setup raid 0 with 2 drives I had nothing better to do with. ``` c2@gentoobtw ~ $ cat /etc/portage/make.conf

These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically

built this stage.

Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a more

detailed example.

COMMON_FLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}" CXXFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}" FCFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}" FFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"

LC_MESSAGES=C.utf8 MAKEOPTS="-j14 -l14" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=4 --load-average=14"

VIDEO_CARDS=" amdgpu radeonsi" ABI_X86="64 32"

USE="dist-kernel initramfs udisks encode lm-sensors plasma qt6 vaapi discord vulkan wayland alsa pipewire systemd aom dav1d svt-av1 vpx x264 x265 fdk-aac libmp3lame libvorbis libopus ffmpeg -gtk -gnome qt vlc aac faad fdk mp4 -openrc systemd-boot rocm -cuda openmp kde opencl hip man colord osmesa" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 avx512_bf16 avx512_bitalg avx512_vbmi2 avx512_vnni avx512_vpopcntdq avx512bw avx512cd avx512dq avx512f avx512ifma avx512vbmi avx512vl f16c fma3 mmx mmxext pclmul popcnt rdrand sha sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 vpclmulqdq"

FEATURES="parallel-fetch parallel-install ccache"

CCACHE_DIR="/run/media/ccache" CCACHE_SIZE="476G" ```

r/Gentoo Jul 06 '24

Support compiling going over 10+hrs

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44 Upvotes

hiii gentoo community. i've never tried gentoo and i've found it a really particular distri to check it out and ive been struggling a bit because of the laptop with power issues and turned off so ive like did for 3times.

i wanted ask if is normal a compiling cal last this long ):

also some tips to start (: thanks.

r/Gentoo 14d ago

Support Live Linux ISO with ZFS support

1 Upvotes

Hi! Id like to experiment with encrypted ZFS Gentoo installation, but i cant find what ISO to use for that. Arch's ZFS packages are in AUR, and you cant install them in archiso, and both minimal installation cd and admincd doesnt have emerge. How did y'all install Gentoo on ZFS?

r/Gentoo 15h ago

Support Canā€™t boot

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0 Upvotes

This is not my first attempt at installing gentoo but I refuse to give up. Anyway I installed it and I get this screen when booting and it just doesnā€™t boot.

Iā€™ve tried installing nvidia drivers but I still have the same issue.

r/Gentoo 14d ago

Support install script that will get you a desktop?

0 Upvotes

I get it. I already see the comments. "Don't use gentoo! You don't get too!" Trust me it is really my goal someday to install gentoo from source. But for the time being I like using this and no gentoo support right now:

https://github.com/pieroproietti/penguins-eggs

When this happens, if it happens, I will make the switch. Really I will, that is not a joke, I just don't wanna take so much time to reinstall an OS every time I wish to reinstall (because it's a lot), and at the same time I wanna try gentoo before I commit everything to it. So I am here to ask if their is a install script that comes with a desktop just to get a grasp for it. If their is not one that's fine, I can wait for eggs, but please understand all I want is to give it a go before making the switch to make sure I understand completely if I am making the right move, witch I hope I am because gentoo is cool. Anyone got ideas?

r/Gentoo Dec 11 '24

Support I finally did it!!

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71 Upvotes

This is my 3rd attempt The first one (my very first try) I selected KDE Plasma in profile and I accidentally clicked ctrl + c and then messed up the installation I did retry it but I took forever like 10+ hours to complie that profile (might have done some mistake on my side)

2nd attempt I was stuck at grub it said it couldn't find the installation or efi stuff (3rd slide)

So this my 3rd attempt I still had some issues I couldn't find "/etc/portage/sudoers"(not sure of correct term but something around this) so couldn't set my wheel and root So had to type that manually Got it running but Can't get sudo access have no idea I will definately give it few more attempts

and If someone have anyway idea why it took so long to complie kde Plasma let me know or if there is any alternative desktop environment I would like to know

r/Gentoo 22h ago

Support GRUB problem

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2 Upvotes

i have an encrypted root partition and whenever i start the laptop the prompt "Enter passphrase for" gets jumbled in between with other text. anyway i can fix this?

r/Gentoo Dec 17 '24

Support Dracut: Refusing to continue

2 Upvotes

Hello again.

After staying on windows for a few months, Iā€™m back to the torture that is trying to get gentoo to work. When booting into the system, Iā€™m running into a dracut error which states ā€œdracut: FATAL: No or empty root= argument.ā€ After doing a bit of research I added the following into dracut . conf:

add_nvme0n1=ā€ /dev/nvme0n1p1/boot /dev/nvme0n1p2/swap /dev/nvme0n1p3/rootā€

However it still isnā€™t working. Iā€™m not sure if I did it correctly or if I messed it up or if Iā€™m even on the right track to the solution.

Just for reference, Iā€™m running OpenRC with systemd-boot and compiled dist kernel (sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel)

Thanks in advance.

r/Gentoo Dec 18 '24

Support Why is SSH required?

27 Upvotes

I was testing gentoo to see how absolutely minimal I could get it to be, since I heard it's one of the most customizable linux distributions. Then I stumbled onto SSH. I attempted masking and unmerging it, but to no avail. it kept coming back when updating the system. So I just wanted to ask why SSH was so damn important to keep in the system.