On Saturday 14 May 2005 12:26, Holly Bostick wrote: > cfk schreef: > > Gentlemen: > > > > Here's what I have found over the last day or so in trying to get to X > > functionality. This is with a computer with more then one distribution, > > and the others all have X functionality. The computer is an Intel 810 > > motherboard with the i810 integrated graphics device. > > > > I can see there is no /dev/mouse0 or /dev/agpgart on the Gentoo > > partition as there is on the Fedora partition, so part of the > > installation is incomplete. > > > > I copied the known functional /etc/X11/xorg.conf from the known > > functional Fedora X installation. > > > > When I invoke, startx, I get two errors. One has to do with the > > missing /dev/agpgart and the other has to do with the missing > > /dev/mouse0. > > > > I did try to follow the "X Server Configuration Howto" at gentoo.org > > with 'emerge xorg-x11', 'env-update', 'xorgconfig' and others, but I > > obviously missed a step and my naivety is showing a little bit. > > > > What installation step have I missed that precluded Gentoo from creating > > these two device nodes (and perhaps some others) that keep me from > > getting to the next step, an X windows screen (forget about KDE for now, > > I would be happy just to get a pointer moving around on the screen). > > > > Charles Krinke > > I think (read, "suspect") that you have missed one step, and mistaken > one step. > > I suspect that your mouse is fine, but you're looking for the wrong > device. Is your Fedora installation based on a 2.4-series kernel? If you > change your device in xorg.conf to /dev/input/mice (the default for the > 2.6-series kernel you now most likely have), I bet it will work. > > As for the missing agpgart, that could well be because your motherboard > needs a specific driver (for instance, my VIA KM266A board needs both > /dev/agpgart in the kernel, and also via-agp either statically or as a > module, or else I won't have AGP support). So I would check your kernel > config and make sure that any chipset support for the AGP bus that you > may need for your specific mobo has been compiled either statically, or > as a module. If a module, don't forget to add it to > /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 . > > Hope this helps, > Holly
Dear Holly: What I did was to take the default 'genkernel' compilation for Gentoo a couple of days ago. I'm not familiar enough with the distribution to go further then that yet. So, that begs the question of where the module.ko file *might* be. Should genkernel have created an agpgart module somewhere under /lib/modules/kernel/2.6.11-gentoo-r8/drivers? I havent found anything that looks promising. I guess I was assuming that 'genkernel' would get me far enough to let the X window system work, but I guess I must be wrong here. Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
