GKISS Linux 🐂

Installation

Follow the steps mentioned on the KISS Linux website, making a few changes:

Download the latest GKISS tarball from https://github.com/gkisslinux/grepo/releases instead of the KISS tarball.
In order to rebuild glibc, the KISS Community repository needs to be enabled.
Generate locales by running locale-gen as root after modifying the /etc/locale.gen file with the appropriate locales separated by newlines (en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 for most users) and add export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 to /etc/profile.
Optionally, enable the GKISS Community repository for software like dbus and pulseaudio.

Binary Packages

NOTE: This assumes that the user trusts the source of the binary packages. The packages are built on the author's personal system with these build flags.

Regularly updated binaries are provided for the following packages:

Clang
CMake
Firefox
LLVM
Rust

Binaries for KISS (musl) -> here

Installing binaries

Modify KISS_PATH such that the bin repository takes priority over other repositories:

export KISS_PATH=/path/to/grepo/bin:$KISS_PATH

The packages can now be installed by a simple kiss b $PKG command.

NVIDIA

TIP: mesa can be built without llvm on NVIDIA systems, look here for an example.

TIP: X11 Packages can be found in the kiss-xorg repo if Wayland is not for you.

Modify KISS_PATH such that the nvidia repository takes priority over other repositories since some Wayland packages like wlroots are forked here to add NVIDIA support:

export KISS_PATH=/path/to/grepo/nvidia:$KISS_PATH

Build libglvnd, and then mesa since NVIDIA drivers require libglvnd.
Install the nvidia drivers by building the nvidia package.
For kernel configuration, refer to the Gentoo Wiki. The nouveau kernel module must either be blacklisted from being loaded or disabled in the kernel configuration.
The kernel modules can also be built for a specific kernel by exporting the KERNEL_UNAME variable:

export KERNEL_UNAME=5.10.2 # Example
kiss b nvidia
# Environment variables can't be used in `post-install`.
depmod "$KERNEL_UNAME"

For Wayland compositors to work properly, the NVIDIA kernel module MUST be loaded with the GSP firmware (To avoid flickering) and the modeset parameter enabled:

# tee /etc/rc.d/nvidia.boot <<EOF
/bin/modprobe nvidia NVreg_OpenRmEnableUnsupportedGpus=1 NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=1 NVreg_EnableGpuFirmwareLogs=1
/bin/modprobe nvidia-drm modeset=1
EOF

If the firmware was loaded correctly, the following command should output the driver version instead of N/A:

$ nvidia-smi -q | grep GSP
    GSP Firmware Version                  : 515.48.07

Reporting Issues

Any build failures/segfaults encountered with packages from GKISS/KISS repositories should be reported in the form of an issue on this repository.

echawk / grepo