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----- Original Message ----- |
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From: Volker Armin Hemmann |
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Date: Thursday, January 6, 2011 10:25 pm |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X |
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To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> On Thursday 06 January 2011 23:51:38 KIM WHALEN wrote: |
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> > I made the kernel with the nvidia driver as a module and the "emerge |
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> > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers" worked. However, running Xorg - |
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> configure> still fails. |
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> you don't even need that. |
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> cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf |
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> Section "ServerLayout" |
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> Identifier "aticonfig Layout" |
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> Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0 |
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> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" |
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> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" |
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> EndSection |
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> Section "Module" |
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> EndSection |
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> Section "InputDevice" |
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> Identifier "Mouse0" |
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> Driver "evdev" |
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> Option "CorePointer" |
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> Option "Name" "Logitech, Inc. MX610 Laser Cordless Mouse" |
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> EndSection |
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> Section "InputDevice" |
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> Identifier "Keyboard0" |
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> Driver "evdev" |
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> Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30" |
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> Option "XkbRules" "xorg" |
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> Option "XkbModel" "evdev" |
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> Option "XkbLayout" "de" |
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> Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" |
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> EndSection |
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> Section "Monitor" |
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> Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0" |
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> Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver" |
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> Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor" |
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> Option "DPMS" "true" |
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> EndSection |
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> Section "Device" |
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> Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" |
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> Driver "fglrx" |
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> BusID "PCI:1:0:0" |
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> EndSection |
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> Section "Screen" |
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> Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" |
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> Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" |
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> Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0" |
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> DefaultDepth 24 |
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> SubSection "Display" |
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> Viewport 0 0 |
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> Depth 24 |
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> EndSubSection |
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> EndSection |
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> this is for fglrx - just change fglrx to nvidia - and you have a |
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> working |
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> nvidia xorg.conf. |
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> Just stop doing stupid things with your kernel config. No |
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> framebuffer. Not even |
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> as modules! |
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After about two week of head banging this was the fix. I change the Driver to nvidia and startx worked. The only difference was in my xorg.conf the driver was set to nouveau instead of fglrx. |
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I know there were other issues, but if this fix was done first I could have avoided a lot of unnecessary kernal and driver builds in addition to the experimentation. |
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Thanks, |
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--dhk |
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