Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] XFree86 problem
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:06:08
Message-Id: 3A5D884E.E2738C5E@gottinger.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] XFree86 problem by Morgan Christiansson
1 Morgan Christiansson wrote:
2
3 > I found a nice tool called 'xf86cfg', a graphical XFree86-4
4 > configuration tool, http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.2/xf86cfg.1.html .
5 >
6 > But id didn't work and there were some error's about font's.
7 >
8
9 Did you try XFree86 -configure ?
10
11 >
12 > Is there any way to make this tool work? I'll try the good ol'
13 > 'xf86config' too.
14 >
15 > But not today, cya later..
16 >
17 > Morgan Christiansson wrote:
18 >
19 > > Hi, when installing gentoolinux rc3 i downloaded all of them bunzip'd
20 > > and un-tar'd them all onto an ext2 partition and configured as on the page.
21 > >
22 > > To get XFree4 working i copied my RedHat 7 configuration file to
23 > > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. It didn't find it but that's not important now
24 > > cause i specified with "startx -- -xf86config /etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
25 > >
26 > > Well, at first it boot's up nice but after the mode switches and the
27 > > black&white checked background is supposed to show up it just shows a
28 > > black screen (but it's not powersave mode). Has anyone else experienced
29 > > this?
30 > >
31 > > I'm attaching /var/log/XFree86.0.log so you can see what happens. No
32 > > error's at the end.
33 > >
34 > > I'm using a Creative GeForce 256.
35 > >
36 > > I'd love to send you /var/log/XFree86.0.log but it got overwritten with
37 > > a "No screens found" error :(
38 > >
39 > > Problably this is a XFree problem so i'll check the xfree86.org page for
40 > > more info.
41 >
42 > --
43 > Morgan Christiansson
44 >
45 > _______________________________________________
46 > gentoo-dev mailing list
47 > gentoo-dev@g.o
48 > http://www.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev