On (31/12/05 01:49), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Earlier tonight I changed the setting in /etc/conf.d/rc for the > RC_DEVICE_TARBALL from "yes" to "no" and rebooted. Now I can't get into > GNOME. For my personal account after I enter my username/password the > screen clears and I see the default background color and my mouse > pointer, then nothing else. I can move the mouse pointer, but there's > nothing the click on and the context menu doesn't come up when I > right-click. When I tried to log in as root from the welcome screen I > see the "GNOME Starting" box with the Gentoo logo, but it never goes on > from that. To get out of both my personal account and the root account > I had to Alt+Cntrl+Backspace. I got a Failsafe Terminal and looked at > the log files for gdm and saw this: > > (EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No such file or directory) > > There are five log files in /var/log/gdm; they all say roughly the same > thing, and their timestamps are consistent with the times I tried to log > in and got stuck. I can't even find out why it's looking for this file > or how to make it stop looking for it. Can anyone help me out here? > -- > [email protected] mailing list > Hi, Are you using a Nvidia video card? Reverting RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to "yes" should solve the problem but it's not a solution. udev isn't creating the /dev/agpgart file/link - check if it's there and with what perms. Rumen
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