From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50D971381F3 for ; Sat, 11 May 2013 05:00:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0354DE08A8; Sat, 11 May 2013 05:00:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mxout12.cac.washington.edu (mxout12.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.167]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 448EBE08A8 for ; Sat, 11 May 2013 05:00:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.205]) by mxout12.cac.washington.edu (8.14.4+UW11.03/8.14.4+UW13.04) with ESMTP id r4B4vsI8014356 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 10 May 2013 21:57:54 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.1.2] (50-46-196-4.evrt.wa.frontiernet.net [50.46.196.4]) (authenticated authid=brianp) by smtp.washington.edu (8.14.4+UW11.03/8.14.4+UW13.02) with ESMTP id r4B4votx012895 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 10 May 2013 21:57:54 -0700 Message-ID: <518DCFCD.5020008@spamcop.net> Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 21:57:49 -0700 From: Brian Parkhurst User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org CC: Don Wilburn Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] Xorg installation References: <518D5DCD.5080602@gt.rr.com> <518D6422.2050506@spamcop.net> <518D750C.2060004@gt.rr.com> <1368226517.12026.12.camel@n-its-7of9.mcis.washington.edu> <518DA70B.1030409@gt.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <518DA70B.1030409@gt.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 6.0.0.2142326, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.2107409, Antispam-Data: 2013.5.11.44822 X-PMX-Server: mxout12.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_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_500_599 0, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS 0, DATE_TZ_NA 0, ECARD_WORD 0, NO_URI_FOUND 0, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ 0, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT 0, __CP_MEDIA_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 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, __USER_AGENT 0' X-Archives-Salt: 0dce959e-c049-4740-97c8-dd7c5a183b8e X-Archives-Hash: dd994f9ba8d77d66d0263f1ae0886d93 for ev56 the -mieee CFLAG is essential, (have and old Alpha server 800 ev56 that's collecting dust). My current is a DS20E, dual ev67 with a Texas Instruments TVP4020 [Permedia 2] (glint driver) make certain to emerge the Xorg driver for you particular video card x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv is likely candidate. might also emerge the generic vga driver to see if basic VGA works. Also I seem to recall some models require the video card to be in Slot 1. Would have to research that for yours. Brian..