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From: Steve Brenneis <sbrenneis@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg and static libraries
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:26:55
Message-Id: 44B9A217.5060909@surry.net
1 Benno Schulenberg wrote:
2 > Steve Brenneis wrote:
3 >
4 >> Benno Schulenberg wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> You have no video card? Put at least VIDEO_CARDS="vesa" in
7 >>> your /etc/make.conf, and add "nv" or "radeon" or whatever your
8 >>> box has.
9 >>>
10 >> I've never seen any instruction to set this variable.
11 >>
12 >
13 > In http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml
14 > it says: "Set INPUT_DEVICES and VIDEO_CARDS to what you need
15 > in /etc/make.conf."
16 >
17 >
18 >> I have been
19 >> through half a dozen versions of X and a couple of versions of
20 >> KDE with it set this way. Once again, I doubt this is the source
21 >> of my problem. I also have about five other Gentoo systems
22 >> running and haven't set this variable on any of them. They all
23 >> work just fine.
24 >>
25 >
26 > But none of them on modular Xorg, no? :) Older Xorgs just built
27 > all of the drivers.
28 >
29 > Benno
30 >
31 That will teach me to miss reading the newsletter every month. On day
32 I'll learn to pay attention to those things.
33
34 Actually, none of that was my problem. The problem was solved by
35 commenting out the ModulePath statement in xorg.conf. Now I just have to
36 figure out what may have gotten broken by doing that. I think I'll just
37 unmerge everything (in Xorg) and start over.
38
39 Thanks for the help.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg and static libraries Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>