RE: [gentoo-user] new install - X fails

["JD" <jdangler@atlantic.net>]

Thanks, Alex.  I had to run 'installer' from commandline.  Went with the
recommended setup; got an Exception that the dialog says "this is a Bad
Thing" ... I've done it twice, gotten to this point, and whether I choose
'yes' or 'no' to the prompt at this point, the system hangs, with no choice
but to start over.  So, the stage 3 installer for 64 bit looks hosed.  I'm
afraid its back to the Minimal CD and building the system again from
scratch.  I really hope the developer's can get this resolved... I was
perfectly happy with stage1 and building from scratch back in the beginning.
This 'helping to get a system up faster' just isn't working when it comes to
gentoo...

-----Original Message-----
From: Aleksandar L. Dimitrov [mailto:aleks_d@gmx.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:13 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new install - X fails

On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 19:52 -0400, JD wrote:
> Just got a D420 laptop and wanted to setup gentoo...
> Booted from cd, got to the OpenGL start, and X fails ...
> 
> On looking at the details dialog, I find
> Dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so: undefined symbol:
> (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so
> (EE) Failed to load module "GLcore" (loader failed, 7)

That means it was not able to find the GLcore module. Try locating it
with
$ locate libGLcore.so
on my system its in /usr/lib. You could den update the modules path in
xorg.conf or symlink (but the latter is no good idea)
Unfortunately I have no idea which package it belongs to. (Xorg itself?)

> 
> In the X details dialog, other than the mouse error, and (what seems like)
> all of the fonts being invalid (Info and Warnings)
> The last line says:
> (EE) No devices detected.
> Fatal server error:
> No screens found
> 
It just can't find a lot of fonts. Don't worry, they can be added later.
A recent version of x.org should really behave well despite this. The
"No Screens found" is the usual output xorg gives when it encounters one
or more errors during start up.

> The display (according to lspci) is Intel Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express.
> 
> Do I need to customize the xorg.conf file to get the install to work?
> 

You could just try commenting the line 'Load "GLcore"' in xorg.conf.
That's just if you don't need GL-support for things like beryl.
> 

Regards, Aleks

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