Re: [gentoo-user] Weird GNOME problem

[Rumen Yotov]

On (31/12/05 01:49), michael@××××××××××××.com wrote:
> Earlier tonight I changed the setting in /etc/conf.d/rc for the
> RC_DEVICE_TARBALL from "yes" to "no" and rebooted.  Now I can't get into
> GNOME.  For my personal account after I enter my username/password the
> screen clears and I see the default background color and my mouse
> pointer, then nothing else.  I can move the mouse pointer, but there's
> nothing the click on and the context menu doesn't come up when I
> right-click.  When I tried to log in as root from the welcome screen I
> see the "GNOME Starting" box with the Gentoo logo, but it never goes on
> from that.  To get out of both my personal account and the root account
> I had to Alt+Cntrl+Backspace.  I got a Failsafe Terminal and looked at
> the log files for gdm and saw this:
>
> (EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No such file or directory)
>
> There are five log files in /var/log/gdm; they all say roughly the same
> thing, and their timestamps are consistent with the times I tried to log
> in and got stuck.  I can't even find out why it's looking for this file
> or how to make it stop looking for it.  Can anyone help me out here?
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>
Hi,
Are you using a Nvidia video card?
Reverting RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to "yes" should solve the problem but it's not a solution.
udev isn't creating the /dev/agpgart file/link - check if it's there and with what perms.
Rumen