From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IRpv0-0003KP-R9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:55:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l82DlgdS002809; Sun, 2 Sep 2007 13:47:42 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l82Dh3gX030019 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2007 13:43:04 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6F3A661ED for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2007 13:43:03 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.465 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.465 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.466, BAYES_50=0.001] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fi0v16JCr6AY for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2007 13:42:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C3F866608 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2007 13:42:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IRpiv-0007gv-D5 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:42:45 +0200 Received: from toronto-hs-216-138-195-194.s-ip.magma.ca ([216.138.195.194]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:42:45 +0200 Received: from hendrik by toronto-hs-216-138-195-194.s-ip.magma.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:42:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Hendrik Boom Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: X now starts. (was: Gentoo still not up ...) Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 13:42:36 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <46D998F4.7050901@googlemail.com> <200709011952.17446.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: toronto-hs-216-138-195-194.s-ip.magma.ca User-Agent: pan 0.119 (Karma Hunters) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 855b0d4e-46aa-443e-b96b-5bcabcee7604 X-Archives-Hash: 6ae458190ef932c464436d911b3a36a9 On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:30:03 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > So I proceeded to emerge xorg-server for real. No more keyboard problems. > Instead I get the black screen of death. The monitor on light starts > bliking, indicating it is getting no signal, ctrl-alt-backspace and > ctrl-alt-delete don't work, and only a hard reset on the box itself > gets anything going. > > My make.conf specifies VIDEO_CARDS="radeon", even though the automatically > generated /root/xorg.conf.new specifies > > Driver "ati" > > in the "Device" section. Could this be a problem? The hardware is a. ATI > Radeon all-in-wonder card. > > I tried replacing ati by fbdev just to get something working, but it just > told me it couldn't find fbdev. Presumably this driver was not installed. > Is the proper way to install this add in fbdev to the make.conf file: > > VIDEO_CARDS="radeon fbdev" > > or even > > VIDEO_CARDS="radeon ati fbdev" > > and then re-emerge xorg-server? Well, that worked. X -config /root/xorg.conf.new gives me the usual grey tweed pattern and an X cursor. Both the ati and radeon drivers work, but fbdev doesn't -- not that I need it any more, of course. > Or is there a more straightforward way? > I still haven't found a way to browse the list of available packages > the way I used to do in Debian using aptitude or packages.debian.org. > > -- hendrik > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list