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On Sat, December 31, 2005 4:44 am, Rumen Yotov wrote: |
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> On (31/12/05 01:49), michael@××××××××××××.com wrote: |
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>> Earlier tonight I changed the setting in /etc/conf.d/rc for the |
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>> RC_DEVICE_TARBALL from "yes" to "no" and rebooted. Now I can't get into |
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>> GNOME. For my personal account after I enter my username/password the |
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>> screen clears and I see the default background color and my mouse |
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>> pointer, then nothing else. I can move the mouse pointer, but there's |
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>> nothing the click on and the context menu doesn't come up when I |
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>> right-click. When I tried to log in as root from the welcome screen I |
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>> see the "GNOME Starting" box with the Gentoo logo, but it never goes on |
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>> from that. To get out of both my personal account and the root account |
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>> I had to Alt+Cntrl+Backspace. I got a Failsafe Terminal and looked at |
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>> the log files for gdm and saw this: |
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>> |
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>> (EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No such file or directory) |
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>> |
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>> There are five log files in /var/log/gdm; they all say roughly the same |
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>> thing, and their timestamps are consistent with the times I tried to log |
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>> in and got stuck. I can't even find out why it's looking for this file |
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>> or how to make it stop looking for it. Can anyone help me out here? |
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>> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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>> |
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> Hi, |
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> Are you using a Nvidia video card? |
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> Reverting RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to "yes" should solve the problem but it's not |
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> a solution. |
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> udev isn't creating the /dev/agpgart file/link - check if it's there and |
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> with what perms. |
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> Rumen |
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/dev/agpgart does not exist. As far as I know I am not using a Nvidia |
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card. If I was I think I would have a /dev/nvidia as well as several |
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other similar /dev files starting with nvid, but I don't... |
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