Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows stopped working. No errors in Xorg log file.

[Rumen Yotov]

Daevid Vincent wrote:

I run a pretty stable system. I do however run ~x86 for KDE

and Gnome.

Something changed recently in an "emerge -Davu world" or

"system" that

causes X to not start anymore?

If you are not doing the script updates, then you are not running a stable system. Please

do all the script updates, then reboot your system.

Well, I do run the etc-update stuff, however I do it from X-windows and
using 'meld' to graphically see the diffs. So I have a bit of a catch-22
here.

Can you tell me how I can remotely run 'meld' / 'etc-update' on my
notebook's X-windows off of the server? Then I can apply the other
etc-updates. Can this even be done, since I can't get X to start on the
server?

        [0] -1  0       0x2a400000 - 0x2a7fffff (0x400000) MX[B]

(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation unknown chipset

(0x0185) rev 193, Mem @


Perhaps you should add ~x86 to nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx.

Seems the driver you are running doesn't know which chip is on the Gfx card.

I have been using the nvidia stable emerge drivers and I haven't upgraded
the kernel AFAIK.

I guess I'll try to re-emerge the nvidia drivers. The last ~x86 version of
them really hosed up X good, so I decided on this box, to run the stable

ones.

Hi,
Quite easy, just edit "/etc/etc-update.conf" before running "etc-update".

When X starts again restore your settings.
HTH. Rumen

Change "diff-command=diff -uN %file1 %file2" and "using_editor=0". Later could run it in text-mode. Or use "dispatch-conf, it makes a backup of the updated files in /etc/config-archive. Check the diffs afterwards.

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