I had tried holding back on xorg-server 1.5, but somewhere in May at
least one package got past my version limits and X broke. Rather than
to try to revert, I thought surely by now, X would be fixed. Sigh.
In another thread, after spending 2 months without a working X server,
I got KDM to start. But without the mouse and keyboard.
The nice folks who got me that far warned and comisserated thus:
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:26 PM, James<wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes:
>
>
>> > annd this mailing list's archive should be helpful, as there have been
>> > probably dozens of threads about that same problem. :)
>
>> The elog message from the xorg-server emerge also warns about updating
>> drivers.
>
>> emerge --oneshot $(qlist -I x11-drivers)
>
>
> Yep,
> seem my recent
> saga.
>
>
> 'emerge -e1 world' did the trick
> after dropping back to 1.5.3-r7 on xorg-server
> and 8.593 on ati-drivers....
>
> see bug 276953 as gcc-4.3.2 killed outgoing mail
> on seamonkey.....too several days to recover.....
>
>
> ymmv,
>
>
>
Okay, I was hoping for variable mileage, but maybe no dice.
I printed and read the upgrade guide
I recompiled all drivers.
I tried an empty xorg.conf. No dice.
I put together an xorg.conf by minimal changes. No dice.
The actual symptoms are that touching the keyboard causes a continuous
unending stream of garbage characters.
The mouse can move that outlined "x" (very very jumpy) until KDM gets
displayed and is ignored after that.
I guess I give up. My choices are to install Ubuntu, or revert
gentoo. Ubuntu will be a pain because of all the config stuff I'll
have to do to get this thing tweaked again as I like it. And it may
fail in the same way, but it's easier to try older versions of Ubuntu
than recompile all of gentoo (that's what -el does, right?) and
possibly repeat. I have spare partitions that allow me to do this
fairly safely.
================ CUT HERE ==================
# This config file is modified from the results of "Xorg -configure"
on 9 July 2009 on host treat.
# Added this to prevent inputless instances (usually involving bugs in
the config)
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
#InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
#InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "evdev"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "xtrap"
Load "record"
EndSection
# Added per Xorg 1.5 Update Guide
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "evdev"
Driver "evdev"
Option "GrabDevice" "False"
EndSection
ZZ
Section "Monitor"
# Uncommented DisplaySize
DisplaySize 410 310 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "WDE"
ModelName "LCM-20v5"
HorizSync 30.0 - 82.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "probe_sparse" # [<bool>]
#Option "accel" # [<bool>]
#Option "crt_display" # [<bool>]
#Option "composite_sync" # [<bool>]
#Option "hw_cursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "force_pci_mode" # [<bool>]
#Option "dma_mode" # <str>
#Option "agp_mode" # <i>
#Option "agp_size" # <i>
#Option "local_textures" # [<bool>]
#Option "buffer_size" # <i>
#Option "tv_out" # [<bool>]
#Option "tv_standard" # <str>
#Option "mmio_cache" # [<bool>]
#Option "test_mmio_cache" # [<bool>]
#Option "panel_display" # [<bool>]
#Option "reference_clock" # <freq>
#Option "shadow_fb" # [<bool>]
#Option "sw_cursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "AccelMethod" # <str>
#Option "RenderAccel" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "mach64"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "Rage XL"
BusID "PCI:7:1:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
=========== end snippage ===============
--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
