Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Steve Brenneis wrote: > >> Benno Schulenberg wrote: >> >>> You have no video card? Put at least VIDEO_CARDS="vesa" in >>> your /etc/make.conf, and add "nv" or "radeon" or whatever your >>> box has. >>> >> I've never seen any instruction to set this variable. >> > > In http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml > it says: "Set INPUT_DEVICES and VIDEO_CARDS to what you need > in /etc/make.conf." > > >> I have been >> through half a dozen versions of X and a couple of versions of >> KDE with it set this way. Once again, I doubt this is the source >> of my problem. I also have about five other Gentoo systems >> running and haven't set this variable on any of them. They all >> work just fine. >> > > But none of them on modular Xorg, no? :) Older Xorgs just built > all of the drivers. > > Benno > That will teach me to miss reading the newsletter every month. On day I'll learn to pay attention to those things.
Actually, none of that was my problem. The problem was solved by commenting out the ModulePath statement in xorg.conf. Now I just have to figure out what may have gotten broken by doing that. I think I'll just unmerge everything (in Xorg) and start over. Thanks for the help. -- [email protected] mailing list
