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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [urgent] X11 fails after reboot (using a new X11)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:00:20
Message-Id: 49817E25.1070605@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [urgent] X11 fails after reboot (using a new X11) by Helmut Jarausch
1 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2 > On 29 Jan, Justin wrote:
3 >
4 >> Helmut Jarausch schrieb:
5 >>
6 >>> Hi,
7 >>>
8 >>> after reboot X11 fails with
9 >>> (II) Initializing extension GLX
10 >>> (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: (null) ((null))
11 >>>
12 >>> I have
13 >>> x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4
14 >>> x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r1
15 >>> installed on a x86-64 machine.
16 >>>
17 >>> Has anybody an idea what's going on?
18 >>>
19 >>> Many thanks for your help,
20 >>> Helmut.
21 >>>
22 >>>
23 >> Can give some more infos please, USE etc?
24 >>
25 >>
26 > 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
27 > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.22
28 >
29 > I vaguely remember having removed the 'hal' use flag for some time.
30 > Now, I have reinstalled x11-base/xorg-server after adding 'hal' to my
31 > /etc/make.conf
32 > But probably there are further x11 packages which need to be reemerged.
33 >
34 > But on an another machine I'm running these x11 versions without 'hal'.
35 > So, there must be a different cause of the problem.
36 >
37 > Thanks,
38 > Helmut.
39 >
40 >
41 >
42
43 Maybe try emerge -uvDNp world and see if the USE flags are changed. If
44 they have, remove the p and let it rebuild. The -N is the big part here.
45
46 Dale
47
48 :-) :-)