On Sunday 30 January 2005 17:41, Phill wrote: > Quick summary: > I'm working on converting about 30-35 win2k machines into Linux > workstations. > The machine designtated to form the model image vomits violently when > I start X. I've determined via elimination that I am in fact using > the appropriate drivers and refresh rates and have determined that > the actual driver file may be at fault. While at first it coughed up > its lungs while I was using an older version of x.org, it also failed > at the latest version of x.org available in the portage tree. > However, I haven't a clue on how to fix it. > > I either get this working in the next two days or, as I've already > spent copious amounts of time on this, give up on Gentoo and get me a > copy of Debian. (Debian might be more appropriate for this project > but I'm more fond of the copious amounts of documentation that can be > easily found on Gentoo, friendly developers and a package manager > whose inner workings I'm already aware of) [...] I had a similar problem a month ago or so. After two days spent compiling I got struck by this blocker. i810 and Xorg seemed absolutely incompatible; nowadays a 320x200 desktop isn't so usable...
I switched to Debian (XFree). Fortunately it isn't my home machine :-) You may take a look at this buglist: (sorry for the lengthy URL) http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=i81&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=short_desc&type0-0-0=notsubstring&value0-0-0=xfree&field0-1-0=bug_id&type0-1-0=greaterthan&value0-1-0=49300 Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.11-rc2, Compiled #1 Sun Jan 23 08:40:00 CET 2005 One 1.53GHz AMD Athlon XP Processor, 1.5GB RAM, 3022.84 Bogomips Total macula -- [email protected] mailing list
