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what CFLAGS did you use during emerge? |
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On 5/10/2013 13:51, Don Wilburn wrote: |
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> Dear alpha list, |
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> Seems pretty quiet, but I'll try anyway. |
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> I installed Gentoo a few days ago on a PWS500a. (says au) |
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> I told it to emerge xorg-x11. |
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> A simple "startx" made an effort to auto-configure. Now it goes |
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> directly to a black screen with a cursor and some yellow artifacts, but |
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> the computer is locked up. |
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> Xorg -configure reports failure, but it does write xorg.conf.new in the |
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> home directory. Xorg -config with that file gives a black screen and |
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> locks up. |
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> Either way doesn't leave any messages in the log file. |
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> There were some "warnings" after emerge finished, but I didn't write |
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> them down. I thought I'd see something on a google search, but that was |
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> a mistake. |
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> FWIW, the video card is a PCI nVidia GeForce FX 5200 with 256MB. It |
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> worked a couple years ago with Debian and FreeBSD alpha Xorg installations. |
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> Gentoo packages reports xorg 1.13.4 is stable for alpha. Any advice is |
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> appreciated. |
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> Adios, DW |
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