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zsche004 at mrs

Dec 20, 2004, 2:55 PM

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X not working on iBook G4

Hi everyone!

I just installed Gentoo 2004.3 from the minimal cd, doing a stage 1 install.
I got the thing running (an iBook G4 14" 1.2ghz), and I emerged gnome.

My problem is that when I try to start X via startx, gdm, or xdm, the hard
drive grinds for a second or two like it's working, but I get pushed to a
black screen. Once there, I can't do anything, I cant switch to any
terminal or kill the X server.

A few problems I had during the install:
I accidentally put in the CFLAGS line in the make.conf "-[zero]2" instead of
"-[letter O]2". It appeared to build stuff for gnome about half-way
through, then I fixed it.

Also, the building of mozilla stopped "emerge gnome", but "emerge
gnome-light" said I had all of the packages for it.

I'm still kind of a newbie, so any suggestions are welcome!
Thanks,
Andy

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m3thos at netcabo

Dec 25, 2004, 3:57 PM

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Re: X not working on iBook G4 [In reply to]

Hi,

Andrew Zschetzsche wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I just installed Gentoo 2004.3 from the minimal cd, doing a stage 1 install.
> I got the thing running (an iBook G4 14" 1.2ghz), and I emerged gnome.
>
> My problem is that when I try to start X via startx, gdm, or xdm, the hard
> drive grinds for a second or two like it's working, but I get pushed to a
> black screen. Once there, I can't do anything, I cant switch to any
> terminal or kill the X server.
>

try disabling DRI on x config file.

> A few problems I had during the install:
> I accidentally put in the CFLAGS line in the make.conf "-[zero]2" instead of
> "-[letter O]2". It appeared to build stuff for gnome about half-way
> through, then I fixed it.
>
> Also, the building of mozilla stopped "emerge gnome", but "emerge
> gnome-light" said I had all of the packages for it.
>
> I'm still kind of a newbie, so any suggestions are welcome!
> Thanks,
> Andy
>

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