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 4.50) id 1EaJoG-0007Vm-7j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:18:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAALGlW6028753; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:16:47 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.199]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAALBFUh027258 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:11:16 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z3so223105nzf for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:11:15 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=uRfTSmbHzd9ooArPuM0VJEeEMF9AbOHM6YhDkzQ9sgecTNT0HQgHFZmq7OCYkByC74KdDW1JPdgMxpoCtJWXe9WoIUqUmqtUECAKmehu6Eb1gCY/so3HR2Oxw/EBVEUCVeBW/iOFXhK9qpTR/f8nFhMZNre28K7hoWakINhvc0I= Received: by 10.36.24.5 with SMTP id 5mr832747nzx; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:11:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?210.211.144.101? ( [210.211.144.101]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 16sm1087759nzo.2005.11.10.13.11.13; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:11:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4373B770.3060108@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 02:41:12 +0530 From: Mrugesh Karnik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6f15c925-0f68-4ba9-b6d5-40ee0300b901 X-Archives-Hash: 023135135cd35df81fdc75ac14e3d23f Hi, I just installed Gentoo on an AMD64 Sempron machine. RAM is not a problem.. 1GB of it. I just emerged xorg-x11. The graphics card is VIA Unichrome onboard. I have a perfectly fine working FC4 system. I used the FC4 xorg.conf file. First ran Xorg -configure. Kept all the paths from Gentoo and filled in stuff like mouse, keyboard, monitor and graphics card configuration from the FC4 file. I tested the file with X -config /root/xorg.config.fc4 and it worked fine. I then copied it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and gave startx. But twm refused to start. I could just a see a black screen with a black X mouse pointer in the middle. I moved it and it was lagging very badly. So I killed the X server and emerged fluxbox. Fluxbox started fine. But when I tried to open xedit.. it went terribly slow.. Same thing with xcalc. People in #xorg on Freenode told me that I needed to look for via_drv.o module. I didn't find it. Xorg doesn't install it. vesa gives very bad performance as stated above. Interestingly, vesa is what FC4 uses and it runs absolutely fine! What am I to do? I would appreciate any help anyone can offer! Thank you, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list