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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G1wLP-00035a-5d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:26:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6G2OtW4018832; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:24:55 GMT Received: from dmzhost.home.westfield.homelinux.net (dsl-140.dsl1.nclvcr.infoave.net [204.116.58.140] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6G2J57e029124 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:19:05 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.47] (unknown [192.168.1.47]) by dmzhost.home.westfield.homelinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BCAE48001 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 22:19:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44B9A217.5060909@surry.net> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 22:19:03 -0400 From: Steve Brenneis User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060710) 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 and static libraries References: <44B4CF8A.8090101@surry.net> <200607132240.24796.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> <44B6B885.2050106@surry.net> <200607132350.49315.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200607132350.49315.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9cf562c4-a4db-4f4e-90a4-7c8f5b39cbb7 X-Archives-Hash: a452cd5845368297275cc1408910461f Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Steve Brenneis wrote: > >> Benno Schulenberg wrote: >> >>> You have no video card? Put at least VIDEO_CARDS="vesa" in >>> your /etc/make.conf, and add "nv" or "radeon" or whatever your >>> box has. >>> >> I've never seen any instruction to set this variable. >> > > In http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml > it says: "Set INPUT_DEVICES and VIDEO_CARDS to what you need > in /etc/make.conf." > > >> I have been >> through half a dozen versions of X and a couple of versions of >> KDE with it set this way. Once again, I doubt this is the source >> of my problem. I also have about five other Gentoo systems >> running and haven't set this variable on any of them. They all >> work just fine. >> > > But none of them on modular Xorg, no? :) Older Xorgs just built > all of the drivers. > > Benno > That will teach me to miss reading the newsletter every month. On day I'll learn to pay attention to those things. Actually, none of that was my problem. The problem was solved by commenting out the ModulePath statement in xorg.conf. Now I just have to figure out what may have gotten broken by doing that. I think I'll just unmerge everything (in Xorg) and start over. Thanks for the help. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list