Re: [gentoo-user] xorg won't start on intel iMac
2009/11/6 Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca: Hello, I have an intel iMac Core 2 Duo with an ATI radeon HD 2400 XT video card. I have not been able to get X working. I'm also running on an apple machine (macbook), so I might be able to help. My video card is intel, so my settings won't be exactly the same. The first point I suggest is to re-emerge all your x11-drivers/xf86 files. Sometimes after an xorg update these need to be re-installed (although it sounds like you are running on a clean install. Your make.conf settings look okay, but I wonder about /etc/X11/xorg.conf and hal. Is hal installed and running (to run it /etc/init.d/hald start or to add it to default rc-update add hal default). hal should take care of the keyboard and mouse without any extra configuration (special keys and trackpad scrolling extra features aside. check out pommed for hotkey support in apple). I recall that in xorg.conf the driver for my video card device was a bit picky over what I told it. For me this was more an intel graphics issue compared with xorg changes (it used to be under i810 and then it was changed to intel, and so there is some mismatching sometimes in my experience). Try a few options for this variable when you startx. Try these things (and shoot along xorg.conf) and let me know how it goes. I might not respond right away, but I'll keep an eye out. Regards, daid
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg won't start on intel iMac
Hello David, daid kahl daid...@gmail.com writes: 2009/11/6 Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca: I have an intel iMac Core 2 Duo with an ATI radeon HD 2400 XT video card. I have not been able to get X working. I'm also running on an apple machine (macbook), so I might be able to help. My video card is intel, so my settings won't be exactly the same. The first point I suggest is to re-emerge all your x11-drivers/xf86 files. Sometimes after an xorg update these need to be re-installed (although it sounds like you are running on a clean install. Yes, a clean install. Your make.conf settings look okay, but I wonder about /etc/X11/xorg.conf and hal. Is hal installed and running (to run it /etc/init.d/hald start or to add it to default rc-update add hal default). hal should take care of the keyboard and mouse without any extra configuration (special keys and trackpad scrolling extra features aside. check out pommed for hotkey support in apple). I recall that in xorg.conf the driver for my video card device was a bit picky over what I told it. For me this was more an intel graphics issue compared with xorg changes (it used to be under i810 and then it was changed to intel, and so there is some mismatching sometimes in my experience). Try a few options for this variable when you startx. Try these things (and shoot along xorg.conf) and let me know how it goes. I unmerged ati-drivers and removed fglrx from make.conf then rebuilt xorg-server without hal. I was then able to generate an xorg.conf file using Xorg -configure. The generated file chose the vesa driver but after editing that to radeon it now works. I am not sure quite which step in the above was effective in providing a cure. Now that I have a working xorg.conf to which I can revert I will try again with hal and fglrx. I can't send the xorg.conf as I don't have access to the machine today. Many thanks for your help. Roger
