[gentoo-user] Re: X now starts. (was: Gentoo still not up ...)

[Hendrik Boom]

On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:30:03 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:

>
> So I proceeded to emerge xorg-server for real.  No more keyboard problems.
>  Instead I get the black screen of death.  The monitor on light starts
>  bliking, indicating it is getting no signal, ctrl-alt-backspace and
>  ctrl-alt-delete don't work, and only a hard reset on the box itself
>  gets anything going.
>
> My make.conf specifies VIDEO_CARDS="radeon", even though the automatically
> generated /root/xorg.conf.new specifies
>
>         Driver      "ati"
>
> in the "Device" section.  Could this be a problem?  The hardware is a. ATI
> Radeon all-in-wonder card.
>
> I tried replacing ati by fbdev just to get something working, but it just
> told me it couldn't find fbdev.  Presumably this driver was not installed.
>  Is the proper way to install this add in fbdev to the make.conf file:
>
>  VIDEO_CARDS="radeon fbdev"
>
> or even
>
>  VIDEO_CARDS="radeon ati fbdev"
>
> and then re-emerge xorg-server?

Well, that worked.

  X -config /root/xorg.conf.new

gives me the usual grey tweed pattern and an X cursor.  Both the ati and
radeon drivers work, but fbdev doesn't -- not that I need it any more, of
course.

> Or is there a more
straightforward way?
>  I still haven't found a way to browse the list of available packages
> the way I used to do in Debian using aptitude or packages.debian.org.
>
> -- hendrik
>

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