gnome wont start (startx) framebuffer problem

blacknyx · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Posts: 117

I compiled gnome last night after I installed gentoo, then this morning I followed the directions and updated everything and then "startx".
It came back with
Fatal server error, cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs for all framebuffer devices.
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server "0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
I'm still completely new to gentoo and have no idea what to do.
Where can I figure out mroe abut framebuffer and how it effects gnome, what should I do now?

bet1m · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 10:34 pm Post subject:

did you set X correctly?
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blacknyx · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Posts: 117

*sigh*
I followed the directions!! when I tried to do x -configure (which told me my mouse probably wasn't set right which I knew, but figured I could fix later once I got into the GUI, which I'm far more comfortable using).
then
# X -config /root/xorg.conf.new which gave me the exact same result as startx did

bet1m · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 10:42 pm Post subject:

delete new config from /root
than as root:

blacknyx · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Posts: 117

Okay I deleted the config file but
X
still gives me the same exact error

coplaniuk · Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 2:14 am Post subject:

Do you have an nvidia card? I have an older nvidia card, and I wasn't able to use the framebuffer driver.

However, I was able to use the nvidia kernel and glx drivers just fine. Only catch is that I was only able to get the 1.0.6111 drivers working.

First, edit your '/etc/portage/package.mask' file:

Maedhros · Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 1:03 pm Post subject:

Please see https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-291444.html

Moved from Desktop Environments.
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