----- Original Message ----- From: Volker Armin Hemmann Date: Thursday, January 6, 2011 10:25 pm Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X To: [email protected]
> On Thursday 06 January 2011 23:51:38 KIM WHALEN wrote: > > > I made the kernel with the nvidia driver as a module and the "emerge > > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers" worked. However, running Xorg - > configure> still fails. > > you don't even need that. > > cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "aticonfig Layout" > Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0 > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > EndSection > > Section "Module" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "evdev" > Option "CorePointer" > Option "Name" "Logitech, Inc. MX610 Laser Cordless Mouse" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "evdev" > Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30" > Option "XkbRules" "xorg" > Option "XkbModel" "evdev" > Option "XkbLayout" "de" > Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0" > Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver" > Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor" > Option "DPMS" "true" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" > Driver "fglrx" > BusID "PCI:1:0:0" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" > Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" > Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 24 > EndSubSection > EndSection > > > this is for fglrx - just change fglrx to nvidia - and you have a > working > nvidia xorg.conf. > > Just stop doing stupid things with your kernel config. No > framebuffer. Not even > as modules! > > > After about two week of head banging this was the fix. I change the Driver to nvidia and startx worked. The only difference was in my xorg.conf the driver was set to nouveau instead of fglrx. I know there were other issues, but if this fix was done first I could have avoided a lot of unnecessary kernal and driver builds in addition to the experimentation. Thanks, --dhk
