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violagirl
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 Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 4:10 am Post subject: Problems getting X to start? [solved] |
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It would appear that my graphics card (Trio64, needing the s3 driver) is just too old to handle anything but XFree86 well. But on the other hand, I'm not sure if I did something else wrong instead, so I'll put my error message as well. I am pretty much new to Gentoo and don't know much about things like this yet.  I definitely put the driver as s3, I know that. So I'm quite confused as to what is wrong.
Well, another thing would be...... I can't figure out how to emerge XFree86 for the life of me. Is it not in Portage anymore? The most right-seeming one I tried was emerge -va xfree, and even that didn't work! Can someone help me out on that as well?
| Quote: | startx
hostname: Unknown host
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.29973
X Window System Version 7.2.0
Release Date: 22 January 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.2
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 i686
Current Operating System: Linux megini 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 #1 Sun Aug 5 21:36:30 EST 2007 i686
Build Date: 07 August 2007
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Aug 9 00:03:51 2007
(EE) Unable to locate/open config file
New driver is "s3virge"
(==) Using default built-in configuration (55 lines)
(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
Trio3D -- Display is on...turning off
Trio3D -- S3VNopAllCmdSets: SubsysStats#1 = 0x24007f80
Trio3D -- S3VNopAllCmdSets: state changed after 0 iterations
Trio3D -- S3VNopAllCmdSets: SubsysStats#2 = 0x05115f80
Trio3D -- GE was on ST#1: 0x20007f80 ST#2: 0x20007f80
Trio3D -- S3VNopAllCmdSets: SubsysStats#1 = 0x23807f80
Trio3D -- S3VNopAllCmdSets: state changed after 0 iterations
Trio3D -- S3VNopAllCmdSets: SubsysStats#2 = 0x01115f80
Trio3D -- S3VNopAllCmdSets: SubsysStats#1 = 0x20007f80
Trio3D -- S3VNopAllCmdSets: state changed after 0 iterations
Trio3D -- S3VNopAllCmdSets: SubsysStats#2 = 0x20007f80
(EE) S3VIRGE(0): Internal error: invalid bpp (32) in S3VScreenInit
Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
Trio3D -- Display is on...turning off
Trio3D -- S3VNopAllCmdSets: SubsysStats#1 = 0x20007f80
Trio3D -- S3VNopAllCmdSets: state changed after 0 iterations
Trio3D -- S3VNopAllCmdSets: SubsysStats#2 = 0x20007f80
Trio3D -- GE was on ST#1: 0x20007f80 ST#2: 0x20007f80
Trio3D -- S3VNopAllCmdSets: SubsysStats#1 = 0x20007f80
Trio3D -- S3VNopAllCmdSets: state changed after 0 iterations
Trio3D -- S3VNopAllCmdSets: SubsysStats#2 = 0x20007f80
Trio3D -- S3VNopAllCmdSets: SubsysStats#1 = 0x20007f80
Trio3D -- S3VNopAllCmdSets: state changed after 0 iterations
Trio3D -- S3VNopAllCmdSets: SubsysStats#2 = 0x20007f80
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
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gentuse
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 6:06 am Post subject: |
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It looks like XFree86 isn't available anymore. Try xorg-x11. See http://gentoo-wiki.com/Xorg
"invalid bpp (32)" -> try setting "Depth" to "16". |
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DirtyHairy
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:42 am Post subject: |
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| There should be no problem with xorg on older hardware. |
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violagirl
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 4:05 pm Post subject: Hmm |
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I went to the xorg.conf.new file and added Default Depth 16 so now the first part reads this
| Quote: | Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
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but it didn't seem to do anything, if that's what you meant. I got the exact same errors, no change.
Looking at the other errors, what would | Quote: | | (EE) Unable to locate/open config file |
mean? Is that the /root/xorg.conf.new file or something else?
Also, | Quote: | | (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory |
Is this the framebuffer, and what would be a reason for it not opening? Hmm. I find this very odd. Does it simply mean I don't have framebuffer support? I tried editing my make.conf file to put the VIDEO_CARDS= as s3, and then vesa, but both gave the same fb0 error.
Grah. If nothing still works, as a last result my friend might try giving me another graphics card.  |
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eccerr0r
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Location: almost Mile High in the USA
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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There were a lot of drivers that were supported in the old XFree86 that are no longer supported in X.org.
Mostly because devs no longer have the cards they had when writing the original driver.
Course VESA tends to always work, just that it's a bit slow if you can't use the 2d engine on the chip...
| DirtyHairy wrote: | | There should be no problem with xorg on older hardware. |
The other thing is, did you try forcing bpp through the command line, such as X -bpp 16 :1 ?
I recall my old S3 Trio32 had all sorts of different issues... what a nightmare! I heard that Xorg recently got support for this chip again, will need to try to get this board to work again...
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violagirl
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 3:33 am Post subject: Yay! |
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| I went under the Screen part in xorg.conf and added DefaultFBbPP 24 and now it works, although there is quite a bit of black around the edges now. Heh heh. Well, better than no GUI at all, I suppose. Thanks for all the help! |
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