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Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 06:36:25PM -0500, dhk wrote |
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>> I started hald and rebuilt the drivers: startx still fails. |
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> I've hard-masked hal and dbus (and pam) in /etc/portage/package.mask |
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> and X runs OK. |
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> From your messages, I assume you've got some ATI card. What exactly |
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> is it? As root, can you run... "lspci -v > xyz.txt", and find the |
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> section in xyz.txt relating to your video card? If your system doesn't |
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> have lspci, "emerge pciutils". It's been my experience with ATI that |
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> you may find 2 "cards" listed, so look carefully. Here's what my Dell |
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> D530 shows... |
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> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) |
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> Subsystem: Dell Device 020d |
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> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5 |
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> Memory at fdf00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] |
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> I/O ports at ff00 [size=8] |
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> Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] |
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> Memory at fdc00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] |
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> Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Count=1/1 Enable- |
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> Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 |
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Problem Solved. I needed another driver. Below are the three drivers I |
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now have installed. Before, when startx failed, I only had the first |
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two. An "emerge x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev" fixed the problem. |
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x11-drivers/ati-drivers-9.9-r2 |
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x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.2.5 |
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x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.1 |
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This should probably be added to the installation documentation. I've |
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followed the documentation many times before the new Xorg came out and |
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didn't have this problem. |
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Thanks all, |
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dhk |
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