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From: Greg Morin <gpmorin@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New install - startx not starting
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:49:41
Message-Id: 677143dd0611080242t3b3fa978p3b433ef2d407cc1a@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] New install - startx not starting by Alan McKinnon
1 VIDEO_CARDS was/is set. The tweaking was in USE - 'png' was necessary before
2 'emerge cario'.
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4 Gpm
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7 On 11/7/06, Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za> wrote:
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9 > On Tuesday 07 November 2006 16:06, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
10 > > On Tuesday 07 November 2006 15:00, Mick wrote:
11 > > > > The kernel seems good, I've added 'gpm', and 'xorg-x11'. startx
12 > > > > fails complaining about:
13 > > > > (EE) Failed to load module "radeon" (module does not exist, 0)
14 > > > > (EE) No drivers available.
15 > > > >
16 > > > > My question - how do I get/build this module?
17 > > >
18 > > > Add radeon in your /etc/make.conf under VIDEO_CARDS="radeon"
19 > >
20 > > And then run:
21 > >
22 > > # emerge --newuse -va x11-base/xorg-server
23 >
24 > Hang on a sec, if VIDEO_CARDS is empty or non-existent, doesn't the
25 > ebuild default to building all drivers, like 6.8 did? I never tried
26 > this myself, but I read it in a wiki HOWTO.
27 >
28 > If true, surely Greg's problem would never have happened?
29 >
30 > alan
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33 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
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40 Gpm
41 The Morins of Plantsville

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Re: [gentoo-user] New install - startx not starting Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za>