startx errors

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Juice69 · Post by **Juice69** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 11:41 am

When typing startx i get some EE's:

(EE) VGA(0): Driver can't support depth 24
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration

Fatal server error:
no screens found

What to do? I have a GeForce 2 GTS PRO 64MB and a CRT-Monitor from Iiyama, it supports 1280x960 @ 75 Hz.

NitroPye · Post by **NitroPye** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 11:55 am

Have you installed the nvidia driver? It looks like your Xfree config is still using the generic vga driver.

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emerge nvidia-kernel
emerge nvidia-glx

then you will need to modify your XF86Config to have "nvidia" instead of "vga" in the driver section.

Juice69 · Post by **Juice69** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 12:03 pm

That worked! Thank you!
How come only some terminal-windows come up and now icons and so on?

NitroPye · Post by **NitroPye** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 12:16 pm

Looks like your running fun old twm. I suggest emerging gdm, and in your /etc/rc.conf file under login manager, change xdm to gdm. Then

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rc-update xdm default

to get your computer on boot to create a nice X login screen that will make it easier to pick your WM. Also if you don't want to reboot after all that to get the login screen you can:

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/etc/init.d/xdm start

Hope that answers your question.

Juice69 · Post by **Juice69** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 1:45 pm

NitroPye wrote:Looks like your running fun old twm. I suggest emerging gdm, and in your /etc/rc.conf file under login manager, change xdm to gdm. Then
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rc-update xdm default
to get your computer on boot to create a nice X login screen that will make it easier to pick your WM. Also if you don't want to reboot after all that to get the login screen you can:
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/etc/init.d/xdm start
Hope that answers your question.

Are you sure that what you just said is correct? Seems like you type xdm sometimes instead of gdm and vice versa?

NitroPye · Post by **NitroPye** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 2:07 pm

Yep correct, changing xdm to gdm in rc.conf will reflect in the xdm scripts.
Read the desktop configuration guide.

Juice69 · Post by **Juice69** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 6:35 am

Ok, because I have now done what you said but I cannot boot directly to gdm. I still boot to text-mode, and then I have to type gdm start.

One more thing, in text-mode/console I am able to set leadkeys correctly, but where to set loadkeys in Gdm?

Thank you for all your help, mate.

NitroPye · Post by **NitroPye** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 12:06 pm

Are you starting loadkeys with an init script? If there is an init script for it you can just

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rc-update add loadkeys default

and they will start up before X does. X dosen't start until after everything else is loaded with it is in the runlevel, or at least it is second to last so don't worry about loadkeys so long as their is an init script for it. If there is not one, toss whatever the exact command you do for loadkeys in /etc/conf.d/local.start (I think, gentoo box is offline ATM, I am in the middle of a move).