xorg-x11-7.0.0_rc1.ebuild

[rek2]

ok I saw this in portage... so I decided to try it in my staging computer
ok well after 1 hour adding packages to unmask etc.. it starts to emerge everything..
after that I reboot..
and I do a Xorg -configure and it says:
Missing output drivers

ok well I say lets try my actual configuration..
so I type
Xorg and get:
Failed to load module "bitmap" ....
Failed to load module "pcidata" ....

ok well I look in the option and found what I needed since I know were the modules are..
so I run:

Xorg -modulepath /usr/lib/xorg/modules
and this looks better but fails with:

Failed to load module "nv"
Failed to load module "mouse"
Failed to load module "kbd"
No drivers available


hmmmm so now I am stuck

I have a Nvidia card on a pemtium4 with a acer 19" lcd screen.

please let me know if anyone gotr this working..

Thanks

[rek2]

ok I found out I have to reemerge my drivers from:

/usr/portage/x11-drivers/

you have to add them to the unmask etc too..

hope this helps someone else.

[rek2]

BTW Xorg -configure still is not working..

also startx

only works when I do Xorg -modulepath etc

[rek2]

ok I almost got this resolved in a durty hack..

if any of you guys have my problems do:

cd /usr/lib/
mv modules modules.old
ln -s /usr/lib/xorg/modules .

then Xorg works..


you can also go into your xorg.conf file and edit:
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"

[rek2]

ok now I can startx
but.. kde wont load..

[rek2]

ok I notes that a bunch of packages are just not installed when emerging the new xorg-7.0.0_rc1
so basically looking at the log I can find what is missing unmask it and emerge it.. then works another step.. and so on..

for now I have added
xsetroot
xset
xmessage
libXrandr
xterm

[rek2]

ok got kde to start after startx but some stuff is working wacky... ok now to investigate.. I may have to remerge kde?
anyone knows how to force a reermege of all kde?

[rek2]

hmm everything seens to be working on but two things..
the transparencies are making kde unstable mostly in the konsole
and my icons are not there..

[Ma3oxuct]

Oh, boy...I should have seen this thread sooner...I now have a borked xorg.

Here is what is going on:
1) I Unmerged the original xorg, so I do not have any modules to fall back on.
2) I use nvidia drivers and have not desire to fall back to nv.

I have had to re-emerge those same three drivers that you had to remerge.

I am not attempting to figure out how to get the nvidia modules up and running again. This is all good fun; sure beats attempting to find a gf, but I do not know if I'll get any sleep .
Posting from elinks BTW.


Oh, and I am also open to any suggestions.

[rek2]

I have nvidia drivers too.. and it works ok with it..
I am just hanging in the kde thing till I get to work tomorrow.. there is where I have this staging computer were I am testing this,

good luck and please post anything you may find out.

[Ma3oxuct]

I got nvidia driver to work by copying nvidia_drv.o to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/driver.

Now xorg fails to load xtrap. I complied a package named xtrap, but that did not help.

When I uncomment xtrap, nvidia beings to load, but xorg get stuck when initialize fonts.

[rek2]

yap I end up commenting out xtrap on xorg.conf
dont really need it.

[Ma3oxuct]

Got, the fonts to load. It turned out that this xorg does not work with unscaled fonts.

The problem is different now. I do Xorg -modulepath /usr/lib/xorg/modules, but when X loads, all I see is a grey screen where all I can do is move my mouse around...I think that I will look at xorg's logs to see what the deal maybe.

[rek2]

yap make sure you check logs that is what I did.. everytime it complain it cant find a package I added and moved one step above..
Just so you know you can add the modulepath to your xorg.conf file. I think I have commented on that above.
cant wait to get to work tomorrow to get this all working now

[Ma3oxuct]

I'm in!

Here is what I had to do:

xorg would not load because it could not load libXaw.so.8. I emerged that package and still no go.
So I did ls /usr/lib | grep libXaw and found a bunch of them, but not .8. I renamed libXaw.so to libXaw.so.8 .

Once I did that x would load as root, but I was impossible to load x as normal user because gkrellm2 required libXrandr. I emerged it and still no go. I found it /usr/lib and renamed it what it would supposed to be.

I will now attempt to get xtrap working after I test whether all of my apps load or not.

Edit: I almost forgot, I'll attempt to get unscaled fonts working as well.

Edit #2: Nedit does not work by default...It needs libXp

Edit #3: xspim does not work due to fonts.

Edit #4: got xtrap to load. Needed to copy libXTrap.so to /usr/lib/modules

[rek2]

I'm in!

Here is what I had to do:

xorg would not load because it could not load libXaw.so.8. I emerged that package and still no go.
So I did ls /usr/lib | grep libXaw and found a bunch of them, but not .8. I renamed libXaw.so to libXaw.so.8 .

Once I did that x would load as root, but I was impossible to load x as normal user because gkrellm2 required libXrandr. I emerged it and still no go. I found it /usr/lib and renamed it what it would supposed to be.

yap I mention that package above.. is weird but I didnt need to rename it.. I emerge it and that was it. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-28 ... ml#2848313

thanks for finding out this:

Edit #4: got xtrap to load. Needed to copy libXTrap.so to /usr/lib/modules

when you get to run kde turn on the transparencies and let me know if ksonsole is buggy for you...
thanks

[Ma3oxuct]

Ok, I investigated further, and xtrap does not fully load. It missing xtrapModulesData, which I can't find anywhere.

I would testout transpearencies in KDE, if I had it installed. Its a long compile so I can't do that. Plus I have to get off to bed .

[SavedLinuXgeeK]

I have been following the posts, and it has all worked, minus that my desktop doesn't allow me to right click, and the z-axis on my mouse is messed up(as in not working).

Konsole on the otherhand, is working perfectly fine. I am running the nvidia supplied driver for a ti4200. The only thing that im not doing is using shadows, b/c it causes my card to hang, and thusly all input is frozen and i have to ssh into my box to kill X.

I am also running kde 3.5-beta2. Hope this helps

[Xake]

Have to say I am suprised you guys needs to rename and/or copy that much.
There is another thread for modular X here on the forums, where there also is a link to a migrating-guide written by the same person who have done the ebuilds. The one on gentoo-wiki seems accurate enought also.

Now to your problems:
REMOVE modulpaths from xorg.conf, X will still find it.
Have you ever heard of revdep-rebuild and/or opengl-update?

Many of the packages needs libs which has been "renamed" during emerge, and running revdep-rebuild (from the package gentoolkit) rebuilds the packages depending on those librarys makeing the utilize the new names (i.e. no need to move around and or symlink libfiles). It also tells you what libraries a certain package needs and if it does not exist on the system it often fails with a message about it.

Many of the problem with nvidia and/or graphics when it comes to drivers seems to be fixed by just using opengl-update...

For more info, have a look at this thread.

[goatcheese]

ok I saw this in portage... so I decided to try it in my staging computer
ok well after 1 hour adding packages to unmask etc.. it starts to emerge everything..

Next time copy and paste the package names to unmask out of the section in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask. Save you a little time.

once I unmasked everything, I emerged x11-xorg, added x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard, x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati, and x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse. the only other changes were to edit xorg.conf and change the modules to /usr/lib/xorg/modules and commented out the xtrap module. Works like a charm. Now EXA & dri finally works on my M9. Props to Donny for this one.

Anyone know what happened to glxgears?

[goatcheese]

x11-xorg

Heh, xorg-x11 is pretty good too. I'm going to bed.

[Codo]

hmm everything seens to be working on but two things..
the transparencies are making kde unstable mostly in the konsole
and my icons are not there..

Are you running kompmgr/xcompmgr? I've managed to make it work but it's still dead slow. I am running EXA and I've got no errors on xorglogs...

Is it running smoothly for you? How (radeon 7500)

[seppelrockt]

Damn, is it just me? I can't compile xorg-x11-7.0.0_rc1 (meta) ebuild. It wants to compile openmotif but that didn't work (will add the error messages later - I am now on Windows ).

I wonder whether this is kind of an circular dependency thing, e.g. openmotif depending on something that xorg provides that needs openmotif to be compiled <sure, you got it>. Evidence: when I type emerge -pv openmotif it wants to build some xorg stuff first, and emerge -pv xorg-server has along others xorg-x11 and openmotif in its dependencies, though the order of emerging things is different to emerge -pv xorg-x11.

Before I tried to emerge the RC1 I unmerged xorg-x11-6.8.99.x according to the howto (quickpged it of cause).

Any help would be appreacheated - at least having somebody saying it's not just me TM.

[Ma3oxuct]

Have to say I am suprised you guys needs to rename and/or copy that much.
There is another thread for modular X here on the forums, where there also is a link to a migrating-guide written by the same person who have done the ebuilds. The one on gentoo-wiki seems accurate enought also.

Now to your problems:
REMOVE modulpaths from xorg.conf, X will still find it.
Have you ever heard of revdep-rebuild and/or opengl-update?

Many of the packages needs libs which has been "renamed" during emerge, and running revdep-rebuild (from the package gentoolkit) rebuilds the packages depending on those librarys makeing the utilize the new names (i.e. no need to move around and or symlink libfiles). It also tells you what libraries a certain package needs and if it does not exist on the system it often fails with a message about it.

Many of the problem with nvidia and/or graphics when it comes to drivers seems to be fixed by just using opengl-update...

For more info, have a look at this thread.

I knew about revdep-rebuild for a while now and have been using it weekly. I never occurred to be for some reason to actually use it. I totally forgot about opengl-update as well . I guess I learn new things everyday ...The fonts scaling though are new issue, as I spoke to a dev on irc, and he asked me to file a bug on that one.

[rek2]

revdep-rebuild I think this will solve my kde problems..
Thanks.