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
next 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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