Testing Xorg-x11 xorg.conf.new giving me blank screen

anthonywong

I'm a newbie with Linux Gentoo and linux in general. I've tried to use the forum search to look for answers but I'm still stuck on what to do next. I had just succesfully compiled 2 sets of kernel (2.4.25-gentoo-r1) and 2.6.5-gentoo-r1) Had used the later one(2.6.x kernel) to emerge xorg-x11 after reading the 11 Chapters to install Gentoo.

When i came to the step to test x-windows, using 'Xorg -config /root/xorg.conf.new' command, i get a blank screen.

I noticed that after using ctrl-alt-backspace to kill the X, a message that says

monotux · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 8:24 pm Post subject:

edit your Font-section properly.
all fonts are stored in /usr/share/fonts/, so check your paths.
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anthonywong · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 8:38 pm Post subject:

Oops .. i made a blind copy and paste. It should have been

az_zel · n00b Joined: 12 May 2004 Posts: 69

There is sticky in the AMD64 forums (Xfree is officially DEPRECATED on AMD64!!) which should give you some information about Xorg. I myself had the fonts problem. I was able to fix one of them (Type 1), but just ended commenting the others out. It seems that you have to include packages which include the delinquent fonts.

The final step is to simply copy the file into the /etc/X11/ folder. Try that and see what happens.

anthonywong · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 9:07 pm Post subject:

I may have read earlier about the AMD64 problem you mentioned. Anyway, i had installed Gentoo on an old Celeron 466MHz machine. I had commented the three lines in xorg.conf.new with # (assumed that this was the comment char in this file type). X did not load still.

Checked the Xorg.0.log as well. No errors, but seem to have 3 warning messages that I had noticed in the log.
- Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (no such file or directory)
- System lacks support of changing MTRRs
- Framebuffer allocation failed

Other than the above, most of the content of the log indicates its' either information or load from config.

Still trying to figure out,
-ant-

anthonywong · Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:19 pm Post subject:

I'm not going anywhere with this blank screen. Am I suppose to see something when i ran the test on /root/xorg.conf.new? I'm pretty much stucked cos i don't know much about linux. Help!!

Maedhros · Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:26 pm Post subject:

Do you get a mouse cursor? If so, then your config is good, and you can carry on. If not you may have to post your xorg.conf, so we can see what might be wrong.
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anthonywong · Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:35 pm Post subject:

hmm .. how do i copy the xorg.conf.new file from the Gentoo Linux box to another running Win XP? I'm using WinXP to access the Web and this forum. My Gentoo is pretty new; no email clients, no KDE and no Samba. Bare minimum to say the least.

anthonywong · Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:52 pm Post subject:

When I ran the test using the following code

fourhead · Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 3:45 pm Post subject:

hi anthony, you mentioned something about lacking mtrr support in your Xorg.log.0. did you enable mtrr support in your kernel? if not, do that, you should find it under "Processor type and features". i think mtrr is needed by nvidia and probably others.

also, you could try to use the command "xorgconfig" which will ask you several questions about your video hardware, mouse, keyboard and stuff. if you enter everything correctly there X should work flawlessly.

as far as i know, the fonts "problem" is not really one. X says it can't find the given font paths, and removes them from the list, so it doesn't care about them anymore. but i could be wrong, so you'd better try to fix that too.

tom

anthonywong · Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 5:20 pm Post subject:

hey tom!

had included the MTRR support and rebuilt my kernel. For a moment i thought X was working as it boots into the xorg login screen. As i login, it says something about sessionblahblah and two clickable buttons (failsafe and cancel) - something to that effect. Mouse is working perfectly fine. After clicking on the buttons, nothing seems to appear (had no idea what am I suppose to see actually). Again tried the following code

az_zel · n00b Joined: 12 May 2004 Posts: 69

A lot of the questions from the xconfigure can be answered by using a Knoppix CD. When you boot from it, you get a very handy description of your hardware, including the V and H sync speeds of your monitor, as well as the modules that you h/w is using.