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I had tried holding back on xorg-server 1.5, but somewhere in May at |
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least one package got past my version limits and X broke. Rather than |
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to try to revert, I thought surely by now, X would be fixed. Sigh. |
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In another thread, after spending 2 months without a working X server, |
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I got KDM to start. But without the mouse and keyboard. |
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The nice folks who got me that far warned and comisserated thus: |
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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:26 PM, James<wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes: |
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>> > annd this mailing list's archive should be helpful, as there have been |
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>> > probably dozens of threads about that same problem. :) |
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>> The elog message from the xorg-server emerge also warns about updating |
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>> drivers. |
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>> emerge --oneshot $(qlist -I x11-drivers) |
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> Yep, |
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> seem my recent |
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> saga. |
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> 'emerge -e1 world' did the trick |
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> after dropping back to 1.5.3-r7 on xorg-server |
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> and 8.593 on ati-drivers.... |
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> see bug 276953 as gcc-4.3.2 killed outgoing mail |
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> on seamonkey.....too several days to recover..... |
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> ymmv, |
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Okay, I was hoping for variable mileage, but maybe no dice. |
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I printed and read the upgrade guide |
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I recompiled all drivers. |
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I tried an empty xorg.conf. No dice. |
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I put together an xorg.conf by minimal changes. No dice. |
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The actual symptoms are that touching the keyboard causes a continuous |
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unending stream of garbage characters. |
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The mouse can move that outlined "x" (very very jumpy) until KDM gets |
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displayed and is ignored after that. |
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I guess I give up. My choices are to install Ubuntu, or revert |
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gentoo. Ubuntu will be a pain because of all the config stuff I'll |
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have to do to get this thing tweaked again as I like it. And it may |
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fail in the same way, but it's easier to try older versions of Ubuntu |
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than recompile all of gentoo (that's what -el does, right?) and |
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possibly repeat. I have spare partitions that allow me to do this |
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fairly safely. |
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================ CUT HERE ================== |
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# This config file is modified from the results of "Xorg -configure" |
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on 9 July 2009 on host treat. |
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# Added this to prevent inputless instances (usually involving bugs in |
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the config) |
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Section "ServerFlags" |
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Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" |
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EndSection |
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Section "ServerLayout" |
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Identifier "X.org Configured" |
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Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 |
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#InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" |
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#InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" |
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InputDevice "evdev" |
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EndSection |
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Section "Files" |
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ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" |
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FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" |
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FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" |
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FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF" |
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FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" |
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FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" |
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FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/" |
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EndSection |
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Section "Module" |
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Load "dbe" |
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Load "extmod" |
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Load "xtrap" |
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Load "record" |
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EndSection |
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# Added per Xorg 1.5 Update Guide |
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Section "InputDevice" |
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Identifier "evdev" |
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Driver "evdev" |
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Option "GrabDevice" "False" |
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EndSection |
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Section "Monitor" |
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# Uncommented DisplaySize |
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DisplaySize 410 310 # mm |
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Identifier "Monitor0" |
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VendorName "WDE" |
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ModelName "LCM-20v5" |
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HorizSync 30.0 - 82.0 |
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VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0 |
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Option "DPMS" |
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EndSection |
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Section "Device" |
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### Available Driver options are:- |
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### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", |
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### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" |
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### [arg]: arg optional |
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#Option "probe_sparse" # [<bool>] |
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#Option "accel" # [<bool>] |
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#Option "crt_display" # [<bool>] |
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#Option "composite_sync" # [<bool>] |
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#Option "hw_cursor" # [<bool>] |
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#Option "force_pci_mode" # [<bool>] |
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#Option "dma_mode" # <str> |
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#Option "agp_mode" # <i> |
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#Option "agp_size" # <i> |
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#Option "local_textures" # [<bool>] |
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#Option "buffer_size" # <i> |
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#Option "tv_out" # [<bool>] |
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#Option "tv_standard" # <str> |
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#Option "mmio_cache" # [<bool>] |
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#Option "test_mmio_cache" # [<bool>] |
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#Option "panel_display" # [<bool>] |
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#Option "reference_clock" # <freq> |
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#Option "shadow_fb" # [<bool>] |
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#Option "sw_cursor" # [<bool>] |
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#Option "AccelMethod" # <str> |
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#Option "RenderAccel" # [<bool>] |
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Identifier "Card0" |
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Driver "mach64" |
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VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" |
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BoardName "Rage XL" |
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BusID "PCI:7:1:0" |
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EndSection |
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Section "Screen" |
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Identifier "Screen0" |
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Device "Card0" |
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Monitor "Monitor0" |
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SubSection "Display" |
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Viewport 0 0 |
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Depth 1 |
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EndSubSection |
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SubSection "Display" |
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Viewport 0 0 |
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Depth 4 |
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EndSubSection |
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SubSection "Display" |
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Viewport 0 0 |
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Depth 8 |
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EndSubSection |
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SubSection "Display" |
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Viewport 0 0 |
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Depth 15 |
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EndSubSection |
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SubSection "Display" |
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Viewport 0 0 |
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Depth 16 |
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EndSubSection |
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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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=========== end snippage =============== |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |