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 1EaS5L-0005ml-JB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 06:08:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAB67XCG002375; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 06:07:33 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.201]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAB63hjB032144 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 06:03:44 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z3so302995nzf for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:03:42 -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:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=gRVQ5qh4nJz6q+ZBxP4zn0bsWn+u9Uz/AK0HTjsxlyipJlN6W3Fuy7gFesHaMRvxv08+TDLctZ3xkfmK1d6iTyySTM05eELVYq+f+B7MkuObi8kZVS1fqJnd2LFPkxPXtC0YjOFw8j8jDti6VSDXh/M6uPHHevRjkhbiMsjQHCI= Received: by 10.36.59.8 with SMTP id h8mr1060867nza; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:03:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?210.211.146.15? ( [210.211.146.15]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 15sm1068234nzn.2005.11.10.22.03.38; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:03:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <43743438.60202@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:33:36 +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: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox References: <4373B770.3060108@gmail.com> <7573e9640511101335rf1d1820n896178d45a560464@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7573e9640511101335rf1d1820n896178d45a560464@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9b549ff4-3325-4e78-989f-af688eb94f5f X-Archives-Hash: ba3a3e76fc4117a4ccb877da313476fd Richard Fish wrote: > On 11/10/05, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > >>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. > > > I don't use it, but it looks like I got a via_drv on my install of > xorg-x11. Which version of xorg-x11, and what USE flags? > > carcharias rjf # locate via_drv > /usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o > /usr/src/linux-2.6.14/drivers/char/drm/via_drv.c > /usr/src/linux-2.6.14/drivers/char/drm/via_drv.h > /usr/src/linux-2.6.13-suspend2-r5/drivers/char/drm/via_drv.c > /usr/src/linux-2.6.13-suspend2-r5/drivers/char/drm/via_drv.h > > carcharias rjf # equery belongs /usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o > [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o in *... ] > x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 (/usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o) > carcharias rjf # emerge -vp x11-base/xorg-x11 > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 -3dfx -3dnow +bitmap-fonts > -cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx +doc +font-server -insecure-drivers +ipv6 > -minimal +mmx +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk +sse -static > +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) -xprint +xv 0 kB > > Total size of downloads: 0 kB > Hmmm. I am using the stable version. That's 6.8.2-r4. I'll try emerging r6. One thing.. my Sempron surely supports mmx and sse. I have both of those USE flags in my make.conf, but when emerging something, both those flags are in the () and are not used... why is that? Thanks, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list