XGL or xorg7 portage issues.

sidd · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2005 Posts: 9

Im not actually sure what is causing this problem, most likely it is a problem with the portage-xgl overlay (or the way in which i have set it up), but this is the story:
I recently updated to xorg-x11 7, which worked fine. I then followed the HOWTO XGL guide on the wiki. Now my portage seems to be broken:

sidd · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2005 Posts: 9

terribly sorry.. hit the submit button instead of preview :/

Anyway. I cant unmask the problematic package. And i have run emerge --sync and unsured that the portage overlay is up to date.

Any help would be fantastic.

By the way, Xorg and XGL are working fine after the install, portage is the only problem.

xhub · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:32 am Post subject:

What is your graphic card ?

sidd · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2005 Posts: 9

It's a geforce 6600 GT.

Im using the bianry "nvidia-kernel" driver version 1.0.8762-r1

CoffeeBuzz · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:02 pm Post subject:

You must not have VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" in make.conf
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sidd · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2005 Posts: 9

ahah. I forgot i used that variable when i did the initial setup, but never put it in my make conf.

Thanks a lot, problem solved.

harrisonmetz · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 4:50 pm Post subject:

I have a similar setup to sidd (nvidia, xgl) and I don't have VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" in my make conf, and I have never used it before (should I have?). I'm getting the same error:

CoffeeBuzz · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 5:14 pm Post subject:

Its kind of silly becasue VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" actually doesnt enable anything ... but if you dont put something in (in theory you could put whatever you want) then it defaults to none.

But alas, the real silliness is this: none != none ... none == all.

So it will assume you want to install all the drivers for every type of card theres a driver for. And herein lies the problem. The xorg-x11 package is from the overlay and takes precedence over the portage version. The overlay version uses xf86-video-intel ... portage is still on the old i810 naming scheme (xf86-video-i810) so there is NO equivolent package in portage, unlike radeon whose naming is consitant between overlay and portage. Since you dont have xf86-video-intel -*'d in keywords, portage complains.

That my friend is the whole story, and I'm sticking to it.

The moral is, "add nvidia to VIDEO_CARDS if you use nvidia".

Maybe we can rally the intel driver maintainer to change the name.
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harrisonmetz · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:47 pm Post subject:

Thanks. adding that make.conf made portage happy.

scap1784 · Apprentice Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 225

I use ati and not nvidia and I am getting this error. VIDEO_CARDS="ati" doesn't do anything?

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VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx" does the trick for ati folk
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zietbukuel · Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:12 am Post subject:

cycleo · Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:12 am Post subject: Xgl Xorg7

Hi Everyone,
Since I upgraded to xorg 7 and installed XGL, (from the Gentoo "How-to" XGL)
I have an error message that says Xgl can't find the "ddx" module so it can't start.

I've added this module name in the xorg.conf to the modules section, but it still doesn't work.

Also, I can't do a "startx" with a normal user account.
The only way I found to run xorg is via a desktop manager like gdm.
Why is that ?

Thanks for your help.

slycordinator · Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 9:48 am Post subject: