From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M7c2M-0004GB-NZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 May 2009 21:12:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EF116E050D; Fri, 22 May 2009 21:12:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f176.google.com (mail-gx0-f176.google.com [209.85.217.176]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0DD9E050D for ; Fri, 22 May 2009 21:12:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk24 with SMTP id 24so173565gxk.10 for ; Fri, 22 May 2009 14:12:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=C7+7pCOfMR7TZqLCimOYXkk1Mzi/8/PCCADLmth9BfU=; b=s2bZLc1bEuNNXHW4XWJf7SnttuCCUk62YWMBwnGEFTju7W6kJaR85e1SVyj6d2dJYJ e5w1i/tsi9WU5oc9zwA3ziVkBrXRDNzLn7MlTnv2W1AgimpXJrK7EC24ROcrwhQr3104 qRf1k2Zvm3OLhK9p564EnSwlPKfjSlM6sqRpM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=RkkDztFatWVp3gZ1Ypn0Rvyus7eYgwto2LD32GbqB+yIdIOmdyWMn6j+2i7EZ/4oTV f7tIGBKhN0G5bxUTWgJB7iAF4GrwoJ5bXYjTePAJDJe+illssn39Ukc5KRZg52MVRsOw raY8SQh9epSGnU7yzuMF7umPRd47ldSEnAjwg= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.69.4 with SMTP id w4mr570358ybk.193.1243026736565; Fri, 22 May 2009 14:12:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <342e1090905221401j3dc586c0u596861df0226a4c2@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b0905221126v6396597fq51993b0a0769e697@mail.gmail.com> <4A16F845.7070609@genestate.com> <5bdc1c8b0905221219v577413b4mbb656b122fdb3232@mail.gmail.com> <200905222154.43057.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0905221346t3bcbae13p7240f5c20c107b57@mail.gmail.com> <342e1090905221401j3dc586c0u596861df0226a4c2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 14:12:16 -0700 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0905221412q42059efas44aa773fab97253c@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is starting xdm enough to see something in X? From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: eee3f8ab-af22-475e-a01b-fe02c91afc0e X-Archives-Hash: 12b0f8bbc8687452e9325b627fc6f14c On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > Or you're using an intel card. > Set your VIDEO_CARDS variable in /etc/make.conf to "vesa" and > recompile xorg-server, then try again. > > -- > Daniel da Veiga > > Hi Daniel, I'm happy to try that, but for the record in case someone comes along and reads this thread later, lspci shows a Radeon in the system, so I set VIDEO_CARDS that way: MacMini X11 # lspci 0000:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 AGP 0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200] (rev 01) 0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 PCI 0001:10:12.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) 0001:10:17.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid Mac I/O 0001:10:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB 0001:10:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB 0001:10:1a.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB 0001:10:1b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0001:10:1b.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0001:10:1b.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) 0002:20:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 Internal PCI 0002:20:0d.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Intrepid ATA/100 0002:20:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 FireWire (rev 81) 0002:20:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 GMAC (Sun GEM) (rev 80) MacMini X11 # MacMini X11 # cat /etc/make.conf | grep VIDEO VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev radeon" MacMini X11 # I wasn't sure about the fbdev part. I just duplicated one of my x86 boxes. The radeon driver does load and I don't see any complaints in the log file: MacMini X11 # lsmod Module Size Used by radeon 139784 0 drm 80732 1 radeon agpgart 33344 2 drm,uninorth_agp MacMini X11 #