From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I35Jk-0002A7-Mn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:18:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5Q7HAbu032643; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:17:10 GMT Received: from smtp.linuxant.fr (linuxant.fr [88.191.39.135]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5Q7CqEc027864 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:12:53 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.linuxant.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3742D3D0059 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:12:48 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at linuxant.fr Received: from smtp.linuxant.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.linuxant.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id IbfKJz8JnAHc for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:11:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from linuxant.fr (AVelizy-155-1-41-87.w83-204.abo.wanadoo.fr [83.204.200.87]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.linuxant.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10DB33D004E for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:11:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Xavier Parizet To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: X -configure trouble (was: Re:Radeon trouble) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:10:38 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200706012109.34978.wonko@wonkology.org> <200706032148.36144.Mo6eeeB@gmail.com> <200706260206.41628.wonko@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <200706260206.41628.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Face: #!-@_\G4a[*p5ZX%2h3qPql-Y6!LyD`PrOdpoKy`Y.gvl+!MplCwQ+fN"=?utf-8?q?YOQ=5Dwj!=5Bc=7C=25c=26=0A=09E?=,z1k+EkQ{32JvS?1za)Ozl;hYeoes8JR3|<8gCN'ijF{+VZ3$^|woRAijJ{f}P@=?utf-8?q?=5D=3AbdSV=0A=09=23mQdG=607=23=5C7Mvnch1D=5CN?= List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1445482.jRFc7EQ0Kk"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200706260910.43439.blackhawk@linuxant.fr> X-Archives-Salt: 11b10660-0eeb-494a-a551-486d4bf753de X-Archives-Hash: c61ec564372f264a171e3e6de352a801 --nextPart1445482.jRFc7EQ0Kk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 26 June 2007 02:06:41, Alex Schuster wrote= : > Dimitar Toshev wrote: > > On Friday 01 June 2007, Mick wrote: > > > On Friday 01 June 2007 20:09, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > It is a ATI Radeon 9250 (128 MB-AGP, 200/240 MHz). I added fglrx and > > > > radeon to my VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, now it is > > > > VIDEO_CARDS=3D"fglrx radeon nvidia nv vesa vga fbdev". X was updated > > > > with "emerge -uN xorg-x11". > > > > > > You need either the radeon driver OR the ati-drivers. Up to you. If > > > the former take everything else out of VIDEO_CARDS=3D"...." except for > > > radeon and try configuring your xorg.conf. Alternatively, take radeon > > > out, put fglrx in and emerge ati-drivers before you try to configure > > > your xorg.conf again. > > Is it really necessary to have only one entry in VIDEO_CARDS? I used to > have several, just in case. > > > > If I were you I would first read really carefully this: > > > > > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml > > > > ATI has discontinued support for 9250 and below for some time now. The > > only option is the open-source radeon driver. It's quite good, actually= - > > much more stable than fglrx, has support for almost all features of the > > cards (tvout is a notable exception) and you never have to worry that t= he > > next Xorg or kernel update will break your graphics drivers. > > Too bad, tvout was one of the features I was happy to have now :) > > Sorry for not responding for such a long time, but I was away from my > computer at home. I tried a little more, but with no success. But I decid= ed > to change the card, because the image quality is rather bad, teh widnows > cast shadows onto the desktop. It is okay if I plug the monitor directly > into the card, but I need to have an extension cable. It is a rather > expensive one, without much loss in image quality, except with this speci= al > graphics card. > > Now I am trying out some other cards. The problem is that I cannot get a > fresh xorg.conf file. X -configure always fails with these messages (like > in my first posting): > > weird ~ # X -configure :1 > _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 > _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/weird:1 > _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6 Here you can see that server fails to open an ipv6 socket, so you have two= =20 solutions : 1) Try to recompile xorg without ipv6 use flag : USE=3D-ipv6 emerge=20 xorg-server 2) Try to see if your kernel support ipv6, if not rebuild it with ipv6=20 support Hope this can help... > X Window System Version 7.2.0 > Release Date: 22 January 2007 > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.2 > Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 i686 > Current Operating System: Linux weird 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 #6 PREEMPT Fri Jun= 1 > 05:21:29 CEST 2007 i686 > Build Date: 01 June 2007 > Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org > to make sure that you have the latest version. > Module Loader present > Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (=3D=3D) default setting, > (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, > (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. > (=3D=3D) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.1.log", Time: Tue Jun 26 01:10:30 2007 > List of video drivers: > ati > atimisc > radeon > nv > nvidia > r128 > fglrx > fbdev > vesa > vga > > Backtrace: > 0: X(xf86SigHandler+0xa9) [0x80af86f] > 1: X(DoConfigure+0x199) [0x80a367b] > 2: X(InitOutput+0x186) [0x80967b0] > 3: X(main+0x305) [0x806e405] > 4: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0xb7ced83c] > 5: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xa1) [0x806d9c1] > > Fatal server error: > Caught signal 11. Server aborting > > > The log file (http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/Xorg.1.log for example) does > not seem to contain more information of value. > > I have X running, but only by using an old xorg.conf file where I exchang= ed > the Driver line. This seems to work for plain 2D, but I guess to use all > features I need a new one. > > The version is xorg-x11-7.2 and xorg-server-1.2.0-r3, emerge --info is > here: http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/emerge.info > > Alex Regards, Xavier Parizet =2D- http://www.linuxant.fr=20 --nextPart1445482.jRFc7EQ0Kk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGgLvzmSNaOeTZvg0RAkQwAKClwB24w0jtfODmKoPYMSqC+nedIQCggP0I /63evTDl0/dgk4xNgYAghxw= =Kw5s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1445482.jRFc7EQ0Kk-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list