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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 12:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello,

I have a problem.
Emerging xorg-server-1.8.0 fails.

Here emerge-info : http://dpaste.com/181659
Here emerge -pgv : http://dpaste.com/181661
Here the build log : http://dpaste.com/181662
here aclocal.out : http://dpaste.com/181663

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 12:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No reason to use any 9999 packages, didn't I say that? ;)

x11-libs/libX11-1.3.3 should perfectly do the job. Put this package atom into your xorg keywords file (but don't forget the leading '=').

$ grep 9999 /etc/portage/package.unmask/*

Remove or comment out any x11-*/ entries grep will spit out, and use their latest final counterparts instead. I don't think you want any live packages on your system at this time.

PS: Due to the nature of live ebuilds serving the code hot off the dev repositories, they will fail at times, either at build time or later trying to run them.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 12:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

darkbasic wrote:
Shouldn't synaptics be a better choice for a touchpad?

It should, for a synaptics touchpad? ;)

I suspect that xf86-input-synaptics will create a standard config file inside /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ preceding the evdev-catchall file, at least that would be the sane thing to do.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 3:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

genstorm wrote:
darkbasic wrote:
Shouldn't synaptics be a better choice for a touchpad?
It should, for a synaptics touchpad? ;)

I suspect that xf86-input-synaptics will create a standard config file inside /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ preceding the evdev-catchall file, at least that would be the sane thing to do.
It does not.

I currently seem to be using evdev for my touchpad, and it works fine. No mention of synaptics in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. All the features of the touchpad that I use work - two finger scrolling, tap to click, double tap to double click.

synclient fails, of course.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 3:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well probably not the current version - mind you, xorg-server-1.8.0 is still overlay only, and other package versions still have to catch up. What about configuring the driver by yourself?
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 3:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello Genstorm,

Emerging Xorg-1.8.0 went fine.

One maybe stupid question : If you have just standard hardware , do I need to make a xorg.conf.

I'm now getting a message that no drivers are found and after that a message no screens found.

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 4:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Depends on your definition of standard. ;)

1.a) If you are using one of the vendors' binary blobs, like nvidia-drivers or ati-drivers, you will need a minimum xorg.conf like this:
Code:
Section "Device"
        Identifier      "my-nvidia-card"
        Driver          "nvidia"
EndSection

or
Code:
Section "Device"
        Identifier      "my-ati-card"
        Driver          "fglrx"
EndSection


1.b) Open source drivers like nouveau, radon or intel should work out of the box, if...

2.) At the same time, be sure you have set that very driver for VIDEO_CARDS inside your /etc/make.conf
You should also have put at least INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" in there to get your mouse and keyboard going initially.
(the xorg-drivers package will then pull those driver packages automatically)

Then, if you are using a non-standard keyboard or even just a different keymap than US, you need to set that too. There's an example how I set up my german keyboard in the first post of this thread.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello,

I have a 101 AT keyboard with a usb mouse and a lcd monitor.

I see what went wrong. I set inputdevices to "udev" instead of "evdev"

So I think i have to reinstall everything :(

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello,

I changed input-devices to "keyboard, mouse, evdev" but still it won't start.

When I do startx I get this error messages.

Failed to load "glx" (module does not exist, 0)
Failed to load "dri" (module does not exist, 0)
Failed to load "dri2" (module does not exist, 0)
Failed to load "nv" (module does not exist, 0)
Failed to load "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)
Failed to load "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)

Fatal Server error:
No screens found.

giving up.

xinit : No such file or directory (errorno 2) : unable to connect to server.
xinit : No such process (errorno 3) : server error.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 4:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello

Nobody ?

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 5:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

my first guess: you didnt rebuild the xf86-*-* packages

try to rebuild
xf86-video-nv
and/or
xf86-video-vesa
and/or
xf86-video-fbdev

(you should only need one of them, i'd choose nv)

almost forgot to mention - you always have to do that after xorg-server upgrade/rebuild, not only 1.8.0
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 5:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello,

This is not a rebuild/upgrade but a fresh install.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 6:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

have VIDEO_CARDS="..." in make.conf?
is one of the xf86-video-* packages installed?
you need at least one working video driver, thats the meaning of
Code:
Fatal Server error:
No screens found.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 6:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello,

I have VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau" in make.conf.

I will look if one of the xf86-video packages is installed.

Roelof

Edit : I have the xf86-video-nouveau installed.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 8:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Install the vesa driver as well, the nouveau doesn't seem to be autodetected but the vesa driver should be.

The nv driver is deprecated in favour of nouveau but the nvidia and nouveau drivers need to be specified in your xorg.conf.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 6:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello,

I found it.
I had no xorg.conf.
So i made one and now it's complaining about drm.
So i try to emerge nouveau-drm.

The problem I now have is that I can't find VGA_ARB in my kernel config.

Can anyone tell me where it's hidden.
I tried with menuconfig and / but then I get a message that no modules were found.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 12:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've just tried xorg-server 1.8 with udev but I do not understand how to fully migrate to this configuration. Actually works everything but hal-associated kde programs (plasma, powerdevil, usb mount, etc). Should I wait for a new kde release?
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 12:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh my. ;) Fiddling around with unsupported stuff does require some advanced knowledge. Now ofc, nothing comes from nothing, so we'll try to help you as best as we can - but you still have to understand the implications of e.g. setting different variables inside the make.conf because this is no handbook-style step by step manual. ;)


Now, when you alter variables such as VIDEO_CARDS and INPUT_DEVICES, first of all happens... nothing. These variables contain USE flags that enable hardware support for your specific system and are better explained in the X Server Howto. (for almost everything else, things have changed since the guide that still covers the arch version of xorg-server, so it's outdated for us)

As I said, evdev covers mouse as well as keyboard input pretty well, so don't use the old fashioned mouse and keyboard drivers anymore. Those options will suffice:
INPUT_DEVICES="evdev"
VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nouveau" (this enables both the proprietary as well as the open source driver which is one case of still unsupported software in itself you are mixing here...)

For portage to detect USE flag changes like those, and to re-merge the according packages, do:

# emerge --update --newuse --deep --verbose --ask world

This will cover any changes you make and in your particular case will re-merge essentially xorg-drivers. And only then will your selected drivers be available.

Now, for nouveau to really work, you need kernel 2.6.33 at least. You will find the nouveau driver in the "Staging Drivers" Section. For you, simply using nvidia-drivers will probably be the best idea right now even if emerging it is quite a dirty hack (as described earlier, above). How to get that working, well, everything has been said already pretty clear. There is a thread on how to use the nouveau driver floating around in this forum too, so if you really want to go for it, definitely follow it through instead of blindly emerging packages.

@BaronChaos: A simple rebuild of xorg-server in most cases won't make an x11-drivers/* necessary, of course it is recommended to avoid issues for the lesser experienced users.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 1:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

I tried to install xorg-server-1.8, but with INPUT_DEVICES set to evdev or evdev/mouse/keyboard/synaptics.

My keyboard/mouse don't work with *.conf in /etc/xorg.conf.d/

When i use InputDevice instead of InputClass, it works...

Autodetection of the keyboard/mouse don't work at all.

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 4:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i have no problems with keyboard/mouse.

i had them with wacom tablet, though ;)

if anybody else is using wacom bamboo tablet try this:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-wacom.conf
Code:
Section "InputClass"
   Identifier "Wacom Tablet"
   MatchProduct "Bamboo 4x5 Finger"
   MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
   Driver "wacom"
EndSection
Product name comes from X logs after prior starts.

also, for completeness
/etc/udev/rules.d/10-wacom.rules
Code:
KERNEL=="event*", ID_VENDOR_ID=="056a", NAME="input/%k", SYMLINK="input/wacom"


wacom driver is built by hand, along with a custom kernel module (it has patches to support bamboo series - current in-kernel module does not recognize them yet).

you can grab the sources here:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31540
and follow the PKGBUILD (it's basically a shell script).
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:50 am    Post subject: It works Reply with quote

Just add this in my xorg.conf :

Quote:

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
EndSection


But inputclass doesn't work at all...

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 2:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So, uhh, how do you set your keyboard layout without HAL these days?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You did read the first post?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No. I did now. :oops:
Just stumbled upon this thread on page2, I didn't even notice that there was a big post on p1, sorry.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No problem, share your experiences with us ;)

hellsings wrote:
I tried to install xorg-server-1.8, but with INPUT_DEVICES set to evdev or evdev/mouse/keyboard/synaptics.

My keyboard/mouse don't work with *.conf in /etc/xorg.conf.d/

Have you set INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" and rebuilt xorg-drivers (which will pull in xf86-input-evdev), evdev interface built into the kernel or as module?

Did you really operate inside the /etc/xorg.conf.d/ or actually choose the correct one, /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d? Also, users are supposed to put their custom configs into the good old /etc/X11/xorg.conf file which has a higher priority than the directory which is meant for standard distribution quirks.
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