xorg-x11 mouse problem

cbtg2006 · n00b Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 4

Hi guys,

I have recently installed gentoo 2006.1 from a stage 3 tarball on my Sony Vaio PCG-FX105K laptop.

The VGA is an intel i810. I have installed the kernel driver fo the this card and also compiled X with the VIDEO_CARDS="i810" flag in my make.conf.

I emerged xorg-x11 and then I emerged gnome.

X starts, with gnome, but will only ever load 640x480 despite adding the mode "1024x768" to the default depth. As well as this problem I have a very odd mouse issue. The mouse works under X but it does not seem to 'fit' the screen resolution. It is as thought the mouse overlay is 'off center'. This is hard to describe, but here goes.

The screen resolutiojn is diaplayed correctly at 640x480, but the mouse appears not go to either the far right of the displayed X desktop or to the bottom. However, as far as gnome is concerned the mouse is in the bottom right despite being illustarted three inches above and to the left on screen.
I have drawn an image in the GIMP to illustrate better!!

http://www.cb-net.co.uk/images/mouse_problem.jpg

I'm hoping someone can give me a hint as to what the hell is going on and how to fix both of these issues. I don't get any errors whilst loading X, and the X server runs at 16bit colour as I have specified, it just wont run above 640x480!

Many thanks,

-Chris

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:52 am Post subject:

cbtg2006,

Welcome to Gentoo.

It soulds very much like you have not specified the Video Ram in xorg.conf and the system is running with the defualt 1Mb (or less). I suspect that you are also missing DRI.

This Wiki Page which is not for your specific laptop, covers how to get the i810 working properly, including the required kernel and xorg settings. You may have to change the resolution to suit your machine but everything else, graphics wise, should suit.
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cbtg2006 · n00b Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 4

Hi NeddySeagoon,

Firstly thanks for your reply.

I had specified the Video RAM through cofiguring the xorg.con using xorgconfig.

I looked through the HOWTO and noticed that instead of using the built-in i810 driver they used the i915 driver. I had previously compiled agpgart and dri, but for the i810 driver. I recompiled ther kernel with this in mind, and also re-emerged xorg-x11 with the synaptics input device flag.

640x480 was still broken within gnome but without the xinitrc file (which I have set to call gnome using exec gnome-session) twm loaded at 1024x768 and the mouse worked perfectly!

I forced gnome to use 1024x768 and everything is fine now!

Is there a way to 'backup' the compiled application(s) in order to save me from having to recompile it from scratch in the event of a system failure? It took a *long* time to compile and merge gnome (and xorg-x11!) and it would be good if this was possible!

Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction,

-Chris

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:15 am Post subject:

cbtg2006,

Search the forums (or even the Wiki) for stage 4. Thats a method to back up and re-install your own install.
For individual packages, you can save the binaries.