[gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

[Mrugesh Karnik]

Hi,

I just installed Gentoo on an AMD64 Sempron machine. RAM is not a 
problem.. 1GB of it.

I just emerged xorg-x11. The graphics card is VIA Unichrome onboard. I 
have a perfectly fine working FC4 system. I used the FC4 xorg.conf file. 
First ran Xorg -configure. Kept all the paths from Gentoo and filled in 
stuff like mouse, keyboard, monitor and graphics card configuration from 
the FC4 file. I tested the file with X -config /root/xorg.config.fc4 and 
it worked fine. I then copied it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and gave startx. 
But twm refused to start. I could just a see a black screen with a black 
X mouse pointer in the middle. I moved it and it was lagging very badly. 
So I killed the X server and emerged fluxbox.

Fluxbox started fine. But when I tried to open xedit.. it went terribly 
slow.. Same thing with xcalc. People in #xorg on Freenode told me that I 
needed to look for via_drv.o module. I didn't find it. Xorg doesn't 
install it. vesa gives very bad performance as stated above. 
Interestingly, vesa is what FC4 uses and it runs absolutely fine!

What am I to do? I would appreciate any help anyone can offer!

Thank you,
Mrugesh
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