From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-alpha+bounces-298-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAC1C1381F3 for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Fri, 10 May 2013 21:20:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97004E0895; Fri, 10 May 2013 21:20:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mxout11.cac.washington.edu (mxout11.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.201]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 05B47E0895 for <gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 10 May 2013 21:20:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.170]) by mxout11.cac.washington.edu (8.14.4+UW11.03/8.14.4+UW13.04) with ESMTP id r4ALIRt7029753 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for <gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 10 May 2013 14:18:28 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.2.100] (ichiro.mcis.washington.edu [140.142.41.125]) (authenticated authid=brianp) by smtp.washington.edu (8.14.4+UW11.03/8.14.4+UW13.02) with ESMTP id r4ALIQ55027421 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for <gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 10 May 2013 14:18:27 -0700 Message-ID: <518D6422.2050506@spamcop.net> Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 14:18:26 -0700 From: Brian Parkhurst <brianp@spamcop.net> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-alpha+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-alpha+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-alpha+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-alpha.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] Xorg installation References: <518D5DCD.5080602@gt.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <518D5DCD.5080602@gt.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 6.0.0.2142326, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.2107409, Antispam-Data: 2013.5.10.210616 X-PMX-Server: mxout11.cac.washington.edu X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=X, Probability=10%, Report=' TO_IN_SUBJECT 0.5, REPLYTO_FROM_DIFF_ADDY 0.1, HTML_00_01 0.05, HTML_00_10 0.05, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_1000_1099 0, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS 0, DATE_TZ_NA 0, ECARD_WORD 0, __ANY_URI 0, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ 0, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT 0, __CP_MEDIA_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __FORWARDED_MSG 0, __HAS_FROM 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_REPLYTO 0, __IN_REP_TO 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __MOZILLA_MSGID 0, __MOZILLA_USER_AGENT 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __TO_MALFORMED_2 0, __TO_NO_NAME 0, __URI_NO_MAILTO 0, __URI_NO_PATH 0, __URI_NO_WWW 0, __USER_AGENT 0' X-Archives-Salt: 34b5eef8-dc36-4d64-a123-c875c9df77b6 X-Archives-Hash: 4a321db2651e43fa5049ca6c31e66070 what CFLAGS did you use during emerge? On 5/10/2013 13:51, Don Wilburn wrote: > 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 > >