U5 New 2004.1 Install Xorg sorta Hangs

hootinholler · n00b Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 2

I hate for my first post to be a request for help. I am new to gentoo, this is my first install (actually my like 5th try at my first install for various reasons).

I have an Ultra 5 that Xorg hangs after putting up a grey background and an X cursor-pointer. It takes a long time (~1.5 min) to get this screen. When I say it hangs I mean it hangs, No ^D, ^C, or ^-alt-BS response, I have to kill it from a remote session to regain control. The mouse does move the cursor, but doesn't seem to register clicks.

I had XFree installed, but was having trouble configuring it, when I saw that Xorg was the recommended X implementation so I unmerged it and emerge'd xorg. It was a happy build. I did the opengl-update xorg-x11 step also.

I only see 1 thing in the log to be excited over, it tries and fails a boatload of resolutions, which I assume is where the time is going. The stderr output reports that it can't init font path elements: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/[local|Speedo|type1] but, the log reports these fonts as having been loaded from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts The directories are respective links to //usr/share/fonts

The rest of this message is config info. If you can spot what I've done to hose this please let me know.

dmesg reports video card as:
atyfb: 3D RAGE (GT) [0x4754 rev 0x9a] 2M SGRAM, 14.31818 MHz XTAL, 200 MHz PLL, 67 Mhz MCLK, 67 Mhz XCLK
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 144x56
fb0: ATY Mach64 frame buffer device on PCI

The monitor is a Hitachi HM-4020-D Branded HP, Which I want to run at 1280x1024, H: 60-85 V: 60-120

I have Mach64 support compiled into the kernel, not a module, and other non-ati card support unselected.

Xorg -configure didn't seem to set the keyboard, mouse and monitor correctly so I used xorgconfig to generate the xorg.conf file. The pertinent bits I am using are:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "sun"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "BusMouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/sunmouse"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "hp"
HorizSync 60-85
VertRefresh 60-120
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Standard VGA"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
Driver "vga"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Video"
Driver "ati"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "Video"
Monitor "hp"
DefaultDepth 8

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen 1"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

rinacabj · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 6:18 pm Post subject:

I seem to be having the same problem myself. I did all the xorg.conf manually. Checked mine against your's and everything seems to match up. The only difference I'm getting is that my X will load immediately (~5 seconds) and give me the standard terminal windows and X cursor. My mouse doesn't move and if I try to hit any kill keys it beeps. Also, I cannot log in remotely to kill it. The system has to be turned off. Not even STOP+A works. Note that I also get the font errors and that seems to be the only warnings I show in my log as well. I sure hope we can get this worked out...I'm trying to build three of these things. Have you had any luck with XFree?

hootinholler · n00b Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 2

rinacabj · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject:

i got a little further. first i noticed that i had my mouse protocal configured wrong. I switched to to BusMouse and reloaded x. now i've got mouse support but the keyboard is still not good. found out that was a problem with the key mapping, being that its a sun keyboard and i'm used to pc keyboards. so after that all was good. still dont have the keymappings exact but its working well enough. i also had a little trouble with my video drivers but its all worked out now. i'd post my xorg.conf if i could but there were some problems and i had to take it down. I will post them as soon as I can.

One thing is was thinking is maybe you don't have a window manager configured? What do you have listed as XSESSION in your rc.conf? That could be why you're not getting any mouse click response and no xterms.

rinacabj · Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 6:36 pm Post subject:

xorg.conf

rinacabj · Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 6:52 pm Post subject:

Adding

GenTimJS · Guru Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 406 Location: NH, USA

This is going to sound very stupid, but I've made stupid mistakes and I know how easy it is to overlook little things sometimes...

but ..

do you have an .xinitrc file in your home directory with some kind of window manager (like fluxbox .. runs ok even on slow stuff) trying to start?

If so, which one? Logs?

if not, give it a shot and see if it changes anything.
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