[gentoo-user] Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes:



> startx starts and X session and runs~/.xinitrc, it does not start kdm. If
> you want to go into KDE from a console, use startkde.

It says:
'$DISPLAY is not set'


> What's the problem? You haven't mentioned what goes wrong.
> What's in  /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

(II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
(II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
        If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable AllowEmptyInput.
(WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse'
will be disabled.
(WW) Disabling Keyboard1
(WW) Disabling USB Mouse
(II) Loader magic: 0xd20

 Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
(II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc."
        compiled for 1.4.99.906, module version = 8.62.4
        Module class: X.Org Video Driver
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 02@00:00:0
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for fglrx

(--) fglrx(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon HD 4350" (Chipset = 0x954f)
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported




> emerge -1a $(qlist -I -C x11-drivers)

<brainfart> yes pretty much what I did...


too much family drama lately. Not thinking clearly
nor do I get quality time right now..

James