Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg problems: Intel 945GM (Gigabyte Motherboard onboard video)

2009-09-07 Thread Yoav Luft
I had a similar with the intel video driver, it took me some time to get it all working smoothly. First, read this wiki page: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA, and follow to the latter, including the specific versions of everything, and parameters that need to be passed to the kernel (yes,

[gentoo-user] Xorg problems: Intel 945GM (Gigabyte Motherboard onboard video)

2009-09-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
I got caught, apparently like many others, installing Gentoo to another PC. I've been running Ubuntu (probably Intrepid Ibex, two versions ago), so I know this video adapter is supported. But various issues have ambushed me in trying to get this working. 1. On first install, the keyboard didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg problems: Intel 945GM (Gigabyte Motherboard onboard video)

2009-09-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Alan E. Davis wrote: I got caught, apparently like many others, installing Gentoo to another PC. I've been running Ubuntu (probably Intrepid Ibex, two versions ago), so I know this video adapter is supported. But various issues have ambushed me in trying to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg problems: Intel 945GM (Gigabyte Motherboard onboard video)

2009-09-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you, Volker. I'm uncertain what did it: I have fluxbox working now. Many intervening steps, lots of error messages. Somehow, it just works. Thanks again. Alan On 2009-09-06, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Alan E. Davis wrote: I