Re: [gentoo-user] New install - startx not starting

["Greg Morin" <gpmorin@gmail.com>]

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VIDEO_CARDS was/is set. The tweaking was in USE - 'png' was necessary before
'emerge cario'.

Gpm


On 11/7/06, Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 07 November 2006 16:06, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> > On Tuesday 07 November 2006 15:00, Mick wrote:
> > > > The kernel seems good, I've added 'gpm', and 'xorg-x11'. startx
> > > > fails complaining about:
> > > > (EE) Failed to load module "radeon" (module does not exist, 0)
> > > > (EE) No drivers available.
> > > >
> > > > My question - how do I get/build this module?
> > >
> > > Add radeon in your /etc/make.conf under VIDEO_CARDS="radeon"
> >
> > And then run:
> >
> > # emerge --newuse -va x11-base/xorg-server
>
> Hang on a sec, if VIDEO_CARDS is empty or non-existent, doesn't the
> ebuild default to building all drivers, like 6.8 did? I never tried
> this myself, but I read it in a wiki HOWTO.
>
> If true, surely Greg's problem would never have happened?
>
> alan
>
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Gpm
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