Re: [gentoo-user] Weird GNOME problem

[Michael Sullivan]

On Sat, December 31, 2005 4:44 am, Rumen Yotov wrote:
> On (31/12/05 01:49), michael@××××××××××××.com wrote:
>> Earlier tonight I changed the setting in /etc/conf.d/rc for the
>> RC_DEVICE_TARBALL from "yes" to "no" and rebooted.  Now I can't get into
>> GNOME.  For my personal account after I enter my username/password the
>> screen clears and I see the default background color and my mouse
>> pointer, then nothing else.  I can move the mouse pointer, but there's
>> nothing the click on and the context menu doesn't come up when I
>> right-click.  When I tried to log in as root from the welcome screen I
>> see the "GNOME Starting" box with the Gentoo logo, but it never goes on
>> from that.  To get out of both my personal account and the root account
>> I had to Alt+Cntrl+Backspace.  I got a Failsafe Terminal and looked at
>> the log files for gdm and saw this:
>>
>> (EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No such file or directory)
>>
>> There are five log files in /var/log/gdm; they all say roughly the same
>> thing, and their timestamps are consistent with the times I tried to log
>> in and got stuck.  I can't even find out why it's looking for this file
>> or how to make it stop looking for it.  Can anyone help me out here?
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>> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
>>
> Hi,
> Are you using a Nvidia video card?
> Reverting RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to "yes" should solve the problem but it's not
> a solution.
> udev isn't creating the /dev/agpgart file/link - check if it's there and
> with what perms.
> Rumen
>

/dev/agpgart does not exist.  As far as I know I am not using a Nvidia
card.  If I was I think I would have a /dev/nvidia as well as several
other similar /dev files starting with nvid, but I don't...

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