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From: Justin <justin@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [urgent] X11 fails after reboot (using a new X11)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:01:57
Message-Id: 49817E6E.5020103@j-schmitz.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [urgent] X11 fails after reboot (using a new X11) by Helmut Jarausch
1 Helmut Jarausch schrieb:
2 > On 29 Jan, Justin wrote:
3 >> Helmut Jarausch schrieb:
4 >>> Hi,
5 >>>
6 >>> after reboot X11 fails with
7 >>> (II) Initializing extension GLX
8 >>> (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: (null) ((null))
9 >>>
10 >>> I have
11 >>> x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4
12 >>> x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r1
13 >>> installed on a x86-64 machine.
14 >>>
15 >>> Has anybody an idea what's going on?
16 >>>
17 >>> Many thanks for your help,
18 >>> Helmut.
19 >>>
20 >> Can give some more infos please, USE etc?
21 >>
22 > Installed versions: 1.5.3-r1(09:46:41 01/29/09)(hal input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 nptl sdl video_cards_nv xorg
23 > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.22
24 >
25 if you are using the closed source drivers, you should add nvidia
26 instead of nv to your ${VIDEO_CARDS} in the make.conf
27 > I vaguely remember having removed the 'hal' use flag for some time.
28 > Now, I have reinstalled x11-base/xorg-server after adding 'hal' to my
29 > /etc/make.conf
30 be sure the hald is running before starting the X.
31 > But probably there are further x11 packages which need to be reemerged.
32 >
33 > But on an another machine I'm running these x11 versions without 'hal'.
34 > So, there must be a different cause of the problem.
35 >
36 > Thanks,
37 > Helmut.
38 >
39 >
40
41 Never test packages if it is urgent to recover a working state, ;)!
42
43 P.s. past your xorg.conf, just to be sure that there is now problem

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Re: [gentoo-user] [urgent] X11 fails after reboot (using a new X11) Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>