Re: Xorg installation

what CFLAGS did you use during emerge?



On 5/10/2013 13:51, Don Wilburn wrote:
> Dear alpha list,
>
> Seems pretty quiet, but I'll try anyway.
>
> I installed Gentoo a few days ago on a PWS500a. (says au)
> I told it to emerge xorg-x11.
> A simple "startx" made an effort to auto-configure.  Now it goes
> directly to a black screen with a cursor and some yellow artifacts, but
> the computer is locked up.
> Xorg -configure reports failure, but it does write xorg.conf.new in the
> home directory.  Xorg -config with that file gives a black screen and
> locks up.
> Either way doesn't leave any messages in the log file.
>
> There were some "warnings" after emerge finished, but I didn't write
> them down.  I thought I'd see something on a google search, but that was
> a mistake.
>
> FWIW, the video card is a PCI nVidia GeForce FX 5200 with 256MB.  It
> worked a couple years ago with Debian and FreeBSD alpha Xorg installations.
>
> Gentoo packages reports xorg 1.13.4 is stable for alpha.  Any advice is
> appreciated.
>
> Adios,  DW
>
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