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 1Eaqug-0007vQ-CK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 08:39:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAC8cB9L000186; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 08:38:11 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 jAC8YQsl005572 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 08:34:27 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id r28so787063nza for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:34:25 -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=PivlCox2dl38gvZpPUYN1+OmqZ4yv2GJOzrAmGs49NJknzpUrmltfwDtUlpRkP0Qxu0yKFu3AH+rovsZK/l8eOFMbzSA4+tsv6GVrtxt77MchWyVWc/kYLT1BaC3XVPU8eCMmQOLpPPjILC6MQ0r6S1/al2E+0szZjc4Qv6eCkI= Received: by 10.36.247.78 with SMTP id u78mr2085287nzh; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:34:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?210.211.144.101? ( [210.211.144.101]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 19sm329911nzp.2005.11.12.00.34.23; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:34:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4375A90C.5080006@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 14:04:20 +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> <43743438.60202@gmail.com> <7573e9640511102239t88e4ba5m7b4d0c6fb35c737@mail.gmail.com> <43744E76.9050406@gmail.com> <7573e9640511111020i62a48826ta4a3742db554274a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7573e9640511111020i62a48826ta4a3742db554274a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4822f6ff-b9d7-4aa4-ac8a-602d073ba1c6 X-Archives-Hash: 6ceff0007a72d098ec7434305e4793c0 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list