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roante
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 Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 3:27 pm Post subject: Cannot start X :-( |
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Ok guys, I'm seriously in the need of your help...
I want to install Gentoo on my laptop, its a Clevo M660N (http://www.clevo.com.tw/products/M660N.asp).
I've installed X, but cannot make it running for days.
It has an Intel 945GM video card, but cannot make the correct x config to launch it.
These are my settings in /etc/make.conf:
| Code: | USE="-gtk -gnome qt3 qt4 kde dvd alsa cdr opengl"
VIDEO_CARDS="vga vesa fbdev i810 i810fb intel intelfb" # Just trying to figure out which is the correspondig one ... |
When I run X -configure, it says the list of video drivers is: vga, nvidia (?), i810, fbdev, vesa.
Although when I load module intelfb, then dmesg says it recognizes the videocard:
| Code: | intelfb: Framebuffer driver for Intel(R) 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G/915GM/945G/945GM chipsets
intelfb: Version 0.9.4
intelfb: 00:02.0: Intel(R) 945GM, aperture size 256MB, stolen memory 7932kB
intelfb: Non-CRT device is enabled ( LVDS port ). Disabling mode switching.
intelfb: Video mode must be programmed at boot time. |
So it seems I should use intelfb as videocard I hope, am I right? What I don't understand is that why the X -configure didn't show it?
My error I'm getting when trying to launch the X:
http://rafb.net/p/qTKr2Z50.html
The generated X config file I'm trying to use:
http://rafb.net/p/Vju5Wo68.html
Any help would be greatly accepted, because I'm searching the net, irc channel for ages...  |
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Pseudonimo
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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Don't use a framebuffer driver, I heard Intel had open sourced drivers, you better locate instructions in their site, and if not possible somewhere else, and when it asks to install their drivers just look for the corresponding packages in portage (emerge --search ).
Plz post results,
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Moved from Installing Gentoo to Desktop Environments.
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bunder
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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video_cards="i810" should suffice. i810 works for all chipsets 810 and up.
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roante
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Yeah, was trying that, but I'm always getting strange errors when starting x:
http://rafb.net/p/NSkUBI80.html
When I remove glcore from the modules, the module error solves, but still getting this at the end:
| Code: | (WW) I810: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1) found
(EE) I810(0): unknown type(0xffffffff)=0xff
(EE) I810(0): VBE initialization failed.
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. |
I've tried to comment out the BusID section in my generated xorg.conf, but it didn't worked. Tryed to change it to PCI:0:2:1, but it was then complaining about PCI:0:2:0...
I've re-emerged (with the flags -avDt) the xorg-server several times, it didn't helped.
Configured the kernel to make i810 module/builtin driver, didn't helped.
It is strange when I load module intelfb, then the graphics card is recognized correctly (as I've posted above the dmesg). In the other hand, if I load module i810 or i810fb, it doesn't says anithing 
Was searching for an "intel" module in the kernel, but haven't found any - ain't sure if there's one?
Any more suggestions about this error? I'm really strucked and this problem is slowly driving me to despair  |
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Xanadu
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I sounds like the i810 driver is the one you want, but it sounds like something else is wrong in your xorg.conf . Can you post yours here for a look see?
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roante
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:37 pm Post subject: Re: Cannot start X :-( |
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I've put it already for you, maybe I wasn't clear, sorry:
I've tried to comment out the BusID line, but same error. Tried to change it to change it to PCI:0:2:1, but it was then complaining about PCI:0:2:0. Tried the i810, i810fb, intel, intelfb, fbdev drivers, none of them was usable for me. Tried also with loaded/removed modules, tried to compile them built-ins rather than modules into the kernel, no change.
The config file was created with `X -configure`.
Maybe this is a very trivial error, I'm a newbie with (Gentoo) Linux. |
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Xanadu
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:20 pm Post subject: Re: Cannot start X :-( |
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| roante wrote: | I've put it already for you, maybe I wasn't clear, sorry:
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I get a 404 for that URL, that why I ask it be posted here 
Aside, one of the machines I have at home as a very similar chip and I use the i810 driver. It works very well. ONE THING:
man i810
you'll see that you HAVE TO have a memory amount line in the driver section. This may be part of your problem, but I doubt it. The memory usually (or in my case, anyway) allows 3-d stuff to function because of the memory needed.
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roante
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:20 pm Post subject: Re: Cannot start X :-( |
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| Xanadu wrote: | | I get a 404 for that URL, that why I ask it be posted here |
Gee, sorry, it seems my browser has cached that page, will replace it soon
Thx, I will check these docs, and notify you guys if I achieve any progress. |
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