Richard Fish wrote:
On 11/10/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I just installed Gentoo on an AMD64 Sempron machine. RAM is not a
problem.. 1GB of it.
I just emerged xorg-x11. The graphics card is VIA Unichrome onboard. I
have a perfectly fine working FC4 system. I used the FC4 xorg.conf file.
First ran Xorg -configure. Kept all the paths from Gentoo and filled in
stuff like mouse, keyboard, monitor and graphics card configuration from
the FC4 file. I tested the file with X -config /root/xorg.config.fc4 and
it worked fine. I then copied it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and gave startx.
But twm refused to start. I could just a see a black screen with a black
X mouse pointer in the middle. I moved it and it was lagging very badly.
So I killed the X server and emerged fluxbox.
Fluxbox started fine. But when I tried to open xedit.. it went terribly
slow.. Same thing with xcalc. People in #xorg on Freenode told me that I
needed to look for via_drv.o module. I didn't find it. Xorg doesn't
install it.
I don't use it, but it looks like I got a via_drv on my install of
xorg-x11. Which version of xorg-x11, and what USE flags?
carcharias rjf # locate via_drv
/usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o
/usr/src/linux-2.6.14/drivers/char/drm/via_drv.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.14/drivers/char/drm/via_drv.h
/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-suspend2-r5/drivers/char/drm/via_drv.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-suspend2-r5/drivers/char/drm/via_drv.h
carcharias rjf # equery belongs /usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o
[ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o in *... ]
x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 (/usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o)
carcharias rjf # emerge -vp x11-base/xorg-x11
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 -3dfx -3dnow +bitmap-fonts
-cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx +doc +font-server -insecure-drivers +ipv6
-minimal +mmx +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk +sse -static
+truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) -xprint +xv 0 kB
Total size of downloads: 0 kB
Hmmm. I am using the stable version. That's 6.8.2-r4. I'll try emerging
r6. One thing.. my Sempron surely supports mmx and sse. I have both of
those USE flags in my make.conf, but when emerging something, both those
flags are in the () and are not used... why is that?
Thanks,
Mrugesh
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