I'm trying to get X windows setup on a new notebook I just purchased.
It's a P4 with an ATI Mobility Radeon X600 graphics card, with a
built-in WiFi card and 3-in-1 memory card reader.
I just installed Gentoo from the 2005.0 x86 install discs, followed by
emerging gnome from the x86 packages disc. I ran Xorg -configure, saw
that the screen was coming up properly and the touchpad worked. Then I
installed the config file it generated. My problem is that when I try
to start the X server functionally, it works for less than a minute
before the entire system locks up. The mouse/touchpad pointer stops
moving, keyboard stops responding, and the "caps lock" key won't toggle
the LED. If I use startx in the default config, the twm manager dies
before I can exit all the windows. If I try to start a gnome session,
the graphic in the center of the screen comes up, and a little gray
window comes up in the upper left corner, and then it locks up. Using
xdm, I've tried using ctrl-alt-bksp to exit X Windows after about 15
seconds. I checked .xsession-errors, but didn't see anything other than
the forced exit. Under both xdm and twm, I have noticed that the
graphics are a bit jittery - it tends to take a second or two for the
screen to refresh properly. Does anybody have any ideas what might be
causing this?
The basic command-line interface seems to work fine, and it's running
using framebuffers. System startup has the default graphic background,
and Tux shows up at the top as the kernel is loading, so I know that the
basics on the graphic drivers are working.
It came with a stock RedHat 2.4 distro booting into gnome, so I know
that it's capable of running the X windows environment properly. But
right now, I'm stuck.
Eric Bliss
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