Acer Aspire 5755G - 13 - Xorg

Some changes in make.conf and the useflags are needed for a smooth experience in Xorg with the integrated Intel Graphics.

Changes in make.conf:

Mesa comes with a i915 flag for video cards support: VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia i915 intel"

Touchpad works only with synaptics support: INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics wacom keyboard mouse"

Useflag changes: # disabled useflags USE="-joystick -caps -nls" # minimal qt support with egl instead of glx USE="${USE} -qt4 -accessibility -plasma -exceptions -jit -gstreamer gtkstyle qt3support egl" # fonts USE="${USE} fontconfig corefonts truetype cleartype" # system USE="${USE} threads acpi mmx sse sse2 ssse3 sse4_1" # services USE="${USE} udev dbus policykit udisks hibernate-script" # display and graphic USE="${USE} vdpau vaapi sna X opengl cairo v4l ffmpeg xinerama gtk gtk3" # media USE="${USE} alsa jack lensfun lcms exif png svg jpeg jpeg2k svg xmp" # audio dev USE="${USE} ladspa lash" # others USE="${USE} vim-syntax cjk"
Important useflags:
egl: Make use of egl instead of glx for qt rendering, egl is smaller and fully supported by mesa
vdpau: Adds support for outsourcing video decoding to nvidia
vaapi: Adds support for intel HD Video Acceleration API for hardware decoding
sna: SandyBridge's new acceleration

Changes in /etc/portage/package.use:

### media-libs #mesa vdpau media-libs/mesa g3dvl #mesa intel media-libs/mesa gbm gles2 openvg osmesa shared-dricore xa xvmc

Build Xorg: emerge xorg-server

Changes in xorg.conf:
Xorg is starting without any xorg.conf at all, but we can add some custom stuff to it.
We need to use the modular configs for xorg because of bumblebee.
Create the directory /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d: mkdir -p /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
The naming of the files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d isn't important at all, choose whichever you like.

Keyboard Layout:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/01-keyboard.conf Section "InputClass" Identifier "Logitech USB Receiver" Driver "evdev" #add german and us keyboard layout Option "XkbLayout" "de,us" Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys," #make them toggle by using alt+shift; add termination of xorg by using ctrl+alt+backspace Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" MatchIsKeyboard "on" EndSection