Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 06:36:25PM -0500, dhk wrote > >> I started hald and rebuilt the drivers: startx still fails. > > I've hard-masked hal and dbus (and pam) in /etc/portage/package.mask > and X runs OK. > > From your messages, I assume you've got some ATI card. What exactly > is it? As root, can you run... "lspci -v > xyz.txt", and find the > section in xyz.txt relating to your video card? If your system doesn't > have lspci, "emerge pciutils". It's been my experience with ATI that > you may find 2 "cards" listed, so look carefully. Here's what my Dell > D530 shows... > > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express > Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > Subsystem: Dell Device 020d > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5 > Memory at fdf00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] > I/O ports at ff00 [size=8] > Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] > Memory at fdc00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] > Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- > Count=1/1 Enable- > Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 >
Problem Solved. I needed another driver. Below are the three drivers I now have installed. Before, when startx failed, I only had the first two. An "emerge x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev" fixed the problem. x11-drivers/ati-drivers-9.9-r2 x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.2.5 x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.1 This should probably be added to the installation documentation. I've followed the documentation many times before the new Xorg came out and didn't have this problem. Thanks all, dhk
