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 1EaKA0-0004UE-Gg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:40:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAALdmE6020138; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:39:48 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.198]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAALZCIF005685 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:35:13 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so451976wri for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:35:12 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Y2m779umxAkkKM3y6gO4tAxu+n+lm3O08ciQavYpa1OFbf5LkxkM0/tFPyKc43LpC9Y3gynp+gHwwsynE5nhO+UBHO7tFYXMfR+7xYP1kS3njWNvgH5VYz8IKE48vhrV5IPBXJEfAFFepiZO28+j2TiBhupJiWZ5rN8GeL5lR8A= Received: by 10.54.84.7 with SMTP id h7mr379118wrb; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:35:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.126.13 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:35:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7573e9640511101335rf1d1820n896178d45a560464@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:35:12 -0700 From: Richard Fish Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox In-Reply-To: <4373B770.3060108@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <4373B770.3060108@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jAALZCIF005685 X-Archives-Salt: fc8320d3-3190-4f82-b37a-13b6cb80790f X-Archives-Hash: 18b4d891c6da9a7d97bf2b31c1997b76 On 11/10/05, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Gentoo on an AMD64 Sempron machine. RAM is not a > problem.. 1GB of it. > > I just emerged xorg-x11. The graphics card is VIA Unichrome onboard. I > have a perfectly fine working FC4 system. I used the FC4 xorg.conf file. > First ran Xorg -configure. Kept all the paths from Gentoo and filled in > stuff like mouse, keyboard, monitor and graphics card configuration from > the FC4 file. I tested the file with X -config /root/xorg.config.fc4 and > it worked fine. I then copied it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and gave startx. > But twm refused to start. I could just a see a black screen with a black > X mouse pointer in the middle. I moved it and it was lagging very badly. > So I killed the X server and emerged fluxbox. > > Fluxbox started fine. But when I tried to open xedit.. it went terribly > slow.. Same thing with xcalc. People in #xorg on Freenode told me that I > needed to look for via_drv.o module. I didn't find it. Xorg doesn't > install it. I don't use it, but it looks like I got a via_drv on my install of xorg-x11. Which version of xorg-x11, and what USE flags? carcharias rjf # locate via_drv /usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o /usr/src/linux-2.6.14/drivers/char/drm/via_drv.c /usr/src/linux-2.6.14/drivers/char/drm/via_drv.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.13-suspend2-r5/drivers/char/drm/via_drv.c /usr/src/linux-2.6.13-suspend2-r5/drivers/char/drm/via_drv.h carcharias rjf # equery belongs /usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o in *... ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 (/usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o) carcharias rjf # emerge -vp x11-base/xorg-x11 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 -3dfx -3dnow +bitmap-fonts -cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx +doc +font-server -insecure-drivers +ipv6 -minimal +mmx +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk +sse -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) -xprint +xv 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list