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From: Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Xserver errors while loading livecd 2007.0 ...
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:13:23
Message-Id: 9ef66fac0711171707q693a4550j6dd19eb4913702b0@mail.gmail.com
1 Hi,
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3 after downloding the iso and verifying it was OK using knoppix 5.1.1,
4 while trying to boot gentoo, I got:
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6 XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) o XServer ":0.0"
7 after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining
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9 I am trying to boot gentoo livecd:
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11 Linux version 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 (root@kagome) (gcc version 4.1.1
12 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3))
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14 on a
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16 CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ stepping 02
17 Total of 1 processors activated (1996.07 BogoMIPS).
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19 I read online that this error happens because X does not support RADEON cards
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21 The stanzas on my dmesg output that may relate to this problem may be:
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23 initialized device: /dev/synth, node ( MAJOR 10, MINOR 25 )
24 vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 3072k,
25 total 65536k
26 vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=41
27 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:534c
28 vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c53ba, set palette = c00c53f4
29 vesafb: pmi: ports = cc10 cc16 cc54 cc38 cc3c cc5c cc00 cc04 ccb0 ccb2 ccb4
30 vesafb: scrolling: redraw
31 vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
32 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
33 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
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35 What can I do to solve this problem?
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37 Thanks
38 lbrtchx
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