Modular X server bugs, annoyances and solutions (Part 2)

b_nutzer · n00b Joined: 01 Apr 2006 Posts: 46 Location: Austria

My xorg (gnome) surface is split-up in 6 parts.
I think there is something wrong with the xorg.conf.new

Akkara · Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:09 pm Post subject:

Hi!

I finally got around to doing the update to modular xorg.

All in all it went smoothly and only took 45 minutes. Only issues were several programs I had tried running afterwards (among them xterm) wanted to link against /usr/lib/libXaw8.so, which curiously no longer seems to exist (highest one now is libXaw7). A revdep-rebuild solved the problem.

Next I tried emerge -upvD world to see what it would want to do. It seems to want to pull in a bunch of stuff that neither the initial emerge -av x11-base/xorg-x11 nor the subsequent revdep-rebuild seemed to care about:

davascript · l33t Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 618 Location: Pennsylvania

I hosed my computer when i upgraded to modular x. i first unmerged X 6.8. then i emerged modular x and i cannot open any terminal, any x application(xeyes, xman, xlock, etc), and fbrun doenst work. I cannot login to any failsafe terminal either. flux and openbox are the only wms to even load. thanks guys

frares · n00b Joined: 02 Apr 2004 Posts: 20

you have to emerge xorg-x11 back. I know this because I did the same as you, unmerging x11-xorg has pulled out this entry from "world"

davascript · l33t Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 618 Location: Pennsylvania

thats is what i did to get in this boat. i got it fixed. i just copied my config info and then reinstalled my my root and usr partition. then copied config fiel back into place and re-emerged my apps that i use. took all of about 2 hours. thanks though

mikegpitt · Advocate Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 3224

I read a few posts in this thread about having a blank screen when upgrading to xorg 7.0. I jsut finished my upgrade and I also had this problem. I ended up solving it my upgrading to the ~x86 version of x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810 (which is version 1.6.1 at the time of this writing).

This caused me to also upgrade the following packages to ~x86 as well:

adlaiff6 · Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:58 pm Post subject:

I've got a problem that comes up with startx. I've tried many different /etc/X11/xorg.conf versions, and none of them have seemed to work so far. This is what I've got right now (the important parts, anyway):

ahmedre · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 34

i have an... odd problem. i upgraded x.org 7.1 and then the ati drivers... and for the most part, stuff works... except for two things. first, when i startx, i get a blank screen and the monitor shuts off (dvi connection in case that matters) -- if i do ctrl+alt+f8 followed by ctrl+alt+f7, i get my screen back so its fine (and gl works, i tried quake4 so no problems).

if i exit x, however, even though it doesn't crash, i can't get back to the console. similarly, ctrl+alt+fx to switch shows things being blank and i don't get back to the console... any ideas?

thanks!

chrismortimore · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 2:48 am Post subject:

I heard around the camp fire that ATI have released a driver that is compiled against xorg 7.1, but doesn't provide the new features needed for xv and transparency and all that jazz. So apparently (I can't confirm this, I don't have an ATI card) they "work" but not enough to be considered complete.
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Sade · Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:31 pm Post subject:

Is there some kind of summary of this thread?
Am i supposed to read all of it and the previous one before i post my troubles?
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thundercatslair · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 10

Since I installed the latest ati-drivers (8.27.10) whenever I startx the screen goes blank for about 15 seconds then goes into standby mode. I can get to my desktop by switching to tty1 (ctrl-alt-f1) and then to tty7(crtl-alt-f7). I also need to do that when the monitor moves to standby mode after idling for 10 minutes. Here is my config files.

xorg.conf

osoblue · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:17 pm Post subject:

Hi,

i just upgraded my old X to the new modular x-server.
But i can't start the server using the i810 driver for my video card (Intel 82852/855 GM Integrated Graphics Device)

jonfr · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1008 Location: Denmark

I did upgrade to the new xorg-x11 server, without a a lot of problems. But I wonder what did happen to font server (xfs).

dberkholz · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:22 am Post subject:

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dberkholz · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:44 am Post subject:

bekkra · n00b Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 57

I noticed an interesting....behaviour of the ~x86 evdev- driver that the modular X 7.1 package seems to require.

The previously working solution under X 7.0 was:
- PS/2 keyboard with "kbd" driver
- USB mouse with "evdev" driver, using a custom device under /dev/input though udev rule

The updgrade to X 7.1 gave:
- no core pointer
Of course I searched these forums and other places as well, after all, the server is still ~x86, but there was nothing that I could do to make the server detect my USB mouse. I noticed the following:
- The "Name" option was not working
- The "Device" option was not working ( the manual says that /dev/input/event# should work but it did not )
- The "Vendor" and "Product" options did not work either
(My humble question emerged after a while: what IS working with this "upgraded" evdev driver ?)

Finally, since I saw no other option, I pluged in the mouse as PS/2, and after a reboot (yeah, not even Microsoft would have done that better !), I finally GOT a core pointer with evdev, with all functions intact, less the sensitivity.

Now I saw the next problem:
- semi-working keyboard ( the AltGr key did not work, arrow keys and numeric keypad were unmapped )

Apparently, the evdev driver does not care about keyboard mappings and such. So the result:

x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-1.1.2-r1 does NOT like:
- USB mouse (wee, I must be the only Gentoo user with this strange hardware)
- PS/2 keyboard with other than US keymap, 74 keys or less

The solution ? There was NONE, that I could find. Eventually, I downgraded the evdev driver to 1.0.0.5, which immediately gave a working USB mouse, while I was still using the "kbd" driver for the PS/2 keyboard.

I just get curious WHAT is so fundamentally different between these versions of evdev, so a normal USB mouse ( Logitech MX-510 ), that works with everything I have yet tried, is just not accepted ... and how it can be so bad that there is absolutely no information in the error log about what is the problem. "<device name> returned NULL" is not a kind of message that gives a lot of room for fantasy.

I would love to see some solutions for this problem, failing that , it would be lovely to get ideas about what is wrong with the USB mouse detection.... if there is such a generic problem

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EliteGamer · n00b Joined: 11 Nov 2006 Posts: 1

I saw back some about someone having a font problem but i didnt see the answer. Im having a problem where my font is far to large can someone show me how to get it smaller.
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XenoTerraCide · Veteran Joined: 18 Jan 2004 Posts: 1418 Location: MI, USA

has anyone had any problems with modular X, or knows of any, with LTSP? we're looking to update our terminal server at work but we aren't sure if we're likely to encounter any issues.
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Elleni · Veteran Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 1270

Hello,

I opened a new thread as I setup a new system from livecd and now I cannot startx. Following the link to the thread as I have absolutely no clue on how to solve thatone. The system runed with gentoo quite long and after last world update i could start x only with vesa driver. As having found no solution, I decided to do a fresh install and now I have the same result.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-521619.html

I am sorry for posting this in here but it seems to be a generell problem and not a configuration thing as before I had a working system with drm enabled. It worked with both, fglrx and radeon driver ... until the world update..

:cry:

cormanthor

I have recently upgraded to modular xorg on my amd64-based system. everything starts up and runs fine with nvidia-drivers emerged (FX5500 card), but the colors refuse to look correct. the highlights look overexposed (white-out) and there is a teal outline to every shadow. My colordepth is set at 24 bit and I've run eselect opengl set nvidia several times. Here's my xorg.conf, if that helps:

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mmx87 · n00b Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 7

I just migrated to modular xorg 7.1, and every thing went smoothly except when I try to run xterm in my new xorg environment, nothing happens.

The only error message I get on VT1 is: