How I got x.org up and running

squallbsr · n00b Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 42 Location: /dev/TX/SA

Anybody using Japanese fonts? Anybody know if changing to xorg will mess up the fonts and font rendering stuff for hiragana and such...
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wzzrd · Apprentice Joined: 18 Jul 2002 Posts: 245

FSCK!

I installed xorg's x11 just a few minutes ago, and forgot to remove xdm from runlevel default. Now I am presented with a gdm login screen (which is nice) and every time I press a key, the screen resizes (which sucks). And to make things worse, I haven't got ssh running

primat · Guru Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Posts: 437 Location: Berlin

I have the same problem as metioned above! I get xfree as a dependency of xorg-x11!
Has anyone got a solution for this?
Sebo

Mustard007 · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 4:10 pm Post subject:

Me too...xfree as dependency....I have emerged xorg but it not seem to use xorg.conf. If i haven't XF86Config in /etc/X11 but xorg.conf, he doesn't work and he complain about the config file...So i absolutetly need XF86Config fot startx to work.

If i do a X -version :
----------------------------
XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1
Release Date: 15 August 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.5 i686 [ELF]
Build Date: 09 April 2004
Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
-----------------------------

Is not supposed to be the 6.7 version ?? It like that the xfree dependency erase xorg.

Thanks !!

****** UPDATE *******

Now it's OK, just reemerge again xorg.

Yes ..if you have no xfree installed, xfree is a dependency.

dagonarth · n00b Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 12 Location: Poland

I've got this error:

irf2003 · Veteran Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 1078

i don't understand what you guys are talking about, what
do you mean by xfree as a dependency??
have you emerge sync or emerge-webrsync
i thought this problem is behind us
could you please elaborate??
hth

Red Sparrow · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 4:57 pm Post subject:

I did an "emerge sync" yesterday night because the ebuilds weren't in my tree. Afterwards, if I type "emerge -C xfree" and then "emerge -pv xorg-x11", I get this:

ikshaar · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 5:16 pm Post subject:

Just read in other thread about xorg-x11 that you can do

ydleiF · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 5:33 pm Post subject: xfree dep of xorg-x11?

On my home ~x86 system, two nights ago I emerged xorg-x11. I removed xfree just before that.

Now, on my ~x86 system at work, I try to do the same, but xfree is a dependancy.

I am currently trying emerge -O xorg-x11 on the work machine, after unmerging xfree. I'll post my results here.

emerge info from home system (worked):

Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.5)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.5 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1
distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse,387"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse,387"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache notitles sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X aalib alsa apm avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dv encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png pwdb python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

emerge info from work system (did not work, -O in progress):

Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.6.5)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.5 i686 Pentium III (Katmai)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.8p1
distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse,387"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse,387"
DISTDIR="/var/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache notitles sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.netnitco.net ftp://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/var/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/var/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X apache2 apm avi berkdb cdr crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde kerberos ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang snmp spell sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

georgie · n00b Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 42 Location: London, UK

Hi there

I used these instructions and they worked juast fine, even allowing for an (unrelated) crash during emerging

Xinerama works - I had to copy over the mga drivers for my MGA400, which I have to do every time I update XFree (or, from now, x.org

It's really smooth, feels crisp, fast and the fonts look great.

Can't get XRandR swithcing in gnome working, but I could only get that working sporadically before.

Thanks, I've been thinking about doing this for a while and your how-to was easy to follow and worked perfectly

George

Qweasda · Apprentice Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 152

Can an Xorg server connect to a remote Xfree client? What about the other way around?

Red Sparrow · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 9:13 pm Post subject:

Yes! Success at last! I was able to get it by emerging xorg-x11 with the "--nodeps" option and then manually emerging it's other dependencies. After that, I followed the instructions from the first post in this thread and then I symlinked the libraries and header files as detailed in IWBCMAN's post in this thread.* Then I had to manually edit my /etc/xorg.conf file because X didn't start up correctly unless my DefaultDepth setting in the Screen setting was set to 16.

(- Steve -)

* This step probably wasn't necessary, but it didn't hurt anything.

patroclo7 · n00b Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 68

Well, I have not tried, insofar I am waiting for novelties about radeon mobility IGP 320, but the dependency problem with xfree seems easy. You have to keep X away from use flags. Edit /etc/make.conf and put "-X" in the USE line. I hope it helps :-)

Help me about radeon mobility. Could people reporting successes or unsuccesses report their video card?

MooktaKiNG · Guru Joined: 11 Nov 2002 Posts: 326 Location: London, UK

OK its weird.

I installed xorg last night. it was fine.

Today i read this thread and then do "emerge sync" then do "emerge -uUDp world". And see that it wants to install xfree.

Therefore something happened between yesterday and tonight.

So, all those problems up there ^^^ is all related and somehow needs to be solved. I have no idea how to

So, someone with a bit more knowledge please go right ahead

Its not really a problem for me. I just upgraded each programs, except xfree, individually.
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MooktaKiNG · Guru Joined: 11 Nov 2002 Posts: 326 Location: London, UK

PS: i have a Radeon IGP card on my laptop. It works fine. Framebuffer and bootsplash works fine.

PSS: if anyone got hardware acceleration working with IGP's please let me know!!
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aroben · n00b Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 33

Here's the deal with the xfree dependency (at least this is how I understand it):

x11-base/xorg-x11 wants to emerge x11-terms/xterm
x11-terms/xterm depends on virtual/x11 (basically, there needs to be some kind of X server installed for xterm to build)
x11-base/xfree is what fulfills this virtual/x11 dependency for most people (other things like x11-base/kdrive would also work)

When you emerge -C xfree, this line is removed from /var/cache/edb/virtuals:

charlieg · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 12:17 am Post subject:

irf2003 · Veteran Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 1078

Jigglypuff, don't inject xfree
that's why you getting "[blocks B ]"
hth

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javock · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 7:17 pm Post subject:

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newbie_100 · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 10:59 pm Post subject:

well i had the same problem but i think that if you dont use the -D option with emerge its fine...

raylpc · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 11:36 pm Post subject:

javock · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 12:57 am Post subject: