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From: Don Wilburn <bodhisattva@gt.rr.com>
To: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-alpha] Xorg installation
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 15:51:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <518D5DCD.5080602@gt.rr.com> (raw)

Dear alpha list,

Seems pretty quiet, but I'll try anyway.

I installed Gentoo a few days ago on a PWS500a. (says au)
I told it to emerge xorg-x11.
A simple "startx" made an effort to auto-configure.  Now it goes 
directly to a black screen with a cursor and some yellow artifacts, but 
the computer is locked up.
Xorg -configure reports failure, but it does write xorg.conf.new in the 
home directory.  Xorg -config with that file gives a black screen and 
locks up.
Either way doesn't leave any messages in the log file.

There were some "warnings" after emerge finished, but I didn't write 
them down.  I thought I'd see something on a google search, but that was 
a mistake.

FWIW, the video card is a PCI nVidia GeForce FX 5200 with 256MB.  It 
worked a couple years ago with Debian and FreeBSD alpha Xorg installations.

Gentoo packages reports xorg 1.13.4 is stable for alpha.  Any advice is 
appreciated.

Adios,  DW



             reply	other threads:[~2013-05-10 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-10 20:51 Don Wilburn [this message]
2013-05-10 21:18 ` [gentoo-alpha] Xorg installation Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-10 22:30   ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-10 22:55     ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-11  0:43       ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-11  2:03       ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-11  4:57         ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-11 20:11           ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-12  2:30             ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-12 18:07               ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-12 20:41                 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-15  1:56               ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-15 16:41                 ` Matt Turner
2013-05-15 20:56                   ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-16  2:31                   ` [gentoo-alpha] Xorg installation- SOLVED! Don Wilburn
2013-05-16  2:46                     ` [gentoo-alpha] suggestion for the Alpha handbook Don Wilburn
2013-05-16 18:46                     ` [gentoo-alpha] Xorg installation- SOLVED! Matt Turner
2013-05-16 23:44                       ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-23 19:12                   ` [gentoo-alpha] emerge gentoo-sources fails Don Wilburn
2013-05-23 19:39                     ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-23 21:30                       ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-24 18:59                         ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-24 20:16                           ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-24 20:23                             ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-24 20:56                             ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-24 20:58                               ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-24 21:12                                 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-24 22:29                                 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-27  4:12                                   ` [gentoo-alpha] emerge gentoo-sources fails FINISHED Don Wilburn
2013-05-27  4:25                                   ` [gentoo-alpha] one more thing Don Wilburn
2013-05-29  1:39                                     ` [gentoo-alpha] es1888 audio and PWS500au Don Wilburn
2013-05-29  4:47                                       ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-06-06 22:33                                         ` [gentoo-alpha] Alpha boot CD has no jfs tools Don Wilburn
2013-06-12  6:43                                           ` Matt Turner
2013-06-13  0:27                                             ` Don Wilburn
2013-06-13  7:17                                               ` Matt Turner
2013-06-14  3:27                                                 ` [gentoo-alpha] Alpha boot CD has no jfs tools bug report Don Wilburn
2014-09-26 20:51                                             ` [gentoo-alpha] install cd won't boot Don Wilburn
2014-10-06 23:41                                               ` Don Wilburn
2014-10-07 14:32                                                 ` Don Wilburn
2014-10-25 16:19                                                   ` Raúl Porcel
2013-05-24 20:46                           ` [gentoo-alpha] emerge gentoo-sources fails Don Wilburn
2013-07-11  2:41                       ` [gentoo-alpha] emerge failure revisited Don Wilburn
2013-07-11 14:37                         ` Andrew Gaylard
2013-07-11 18:42                           ` Don Wilburn
2014-11-30 22:20                           ` [gentoo-alpha] radeon questions Don Wilburn
2014-12-09  7:17                             ` Matt Turner
2014-12-09 12:28                               ` [gentoo-alpha] " Måns Rullgård
2014-12-09 18:56                                 ` Don Wilburn
2014-12-11 14:39                                   ` Alex Deucher
2014-12-10  0:54                               ` [gentoo-alpha] " Don Wilburn
2014-12-13 22:10                               ` Don Wilburn
2014-12-13 22:22                                 ` [gentoo-alpha] " Måns Rullgård
2014-12-13 22:25                                   ` Matt Turner
2014-12-14 20:50                                     ` Don Wilburn
2014-12-14 21:21                                       ` Måns Rullgård
2014-12-26 22:33                                         ` [gentoo-alpha] radeonfb question Don Wilburn
2014-12-27 21:09                                           ` [gentoo-alpha] radeonfb question solved Don Wilburn
2015-02-01 20:31                                             ` [gentoo-alpha] bug filed, probably happens to Alpha alone Don Wilburn
2015-02-04  0:14                                               ` Don Wilburn
2015-06-16  0:22                                   ` [gentoo-alpha] nouveau question Don Wilburn
2015-06-16 15:40                                     ` [gentoo-alpha] nouveau question -follow up Don Wilburn
2015-06-16 21:17                                       ` Alan Young
2013-07-21  4:10                         ` [gentoo-alpha] emerge failure revisited Matt Turner
2013-07-23  0:26                           ` Don Wilburn

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