Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

[Mrugesh Karnik <mrugeshkarnik@gmail.com>]

Richard Fish wrote:
> I think we have a failure to communicate here....

Actually no...

> The via_drv I am talking about is an _x.org_ driver, not a kernel
> driver.  It has nothing to do with the kernel sources or rebuilding
> the kernel.  It should exist at /usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o
> (along with all other X11 drivers).

I know! My xorg just doesn't want to compile that file! So what I tried 
was to enable the VIA drivers in the kernel. It then compiled both 
drm.ko and via.ko and also via_drv.o, but the via_drv.o never left the 
/usr/src directory.

> I don't understand why you don't have this file.  The only case this
> should be missing is if you have USE=minimal.  Could you please post
> the output of "emerge -pv xorg-x11"?

I surely didn't use the minimal flag. The first time I had enabled 
insecure-drivers and disabled font-server. Then after reading your first 
email, I tried to compile it with the same USE flags as yours.

> Once you have this file, then you will need to update your xorg.conf
> Device section and change the Driver option to "via".

Already tried that, but of course, no via_drv.o!

> The kernel has a DRM driver for via, that (if compiled as a module)
> will be installed under /lib/modules as "via.ko".  To load that, you
> will modify /etc/autoload.d/kernel-2.6 to add the line "via". 
> However, again, this is only for DRI/DRM support, and will almost
> certainly require using the X11 via driver, so let's worry about that
> later!
> 
> -Richard
> 

Well, the kernel modules have been loaded already...

I noticed one thing, the agpgart option in the kernel is always 
disabled... !x86_64 says the Help for that option. As it is, I have a 
PCI card...

I just can't understand why the file isn't compiled by xorg. Not to 
mention, FC4 uses "vesa" and works perfectly. I wonder what's going on 
with Gentoo :(

Thanks for your help so far,
Mrugesh
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