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Why is VGA card blacklisted in xorg-drivers???

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waltdnes at waltdnes

Nov 9, 2009, 8:48 PM

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Why is VGA card blacklisted in xorg-drivers???

I recently got an Acer Aspireone AO751h netbook. So I compile X, and
run startx, and get a fatal server error about "no screens found". See
attachment. So I try the old standby...
- add "VGA" to "VIDEO_CARDS" in /etc/make.conf
- try to "emerge xorg-drivers xf86-video-vga" (either together or
separately) and find that they block each other.

A bit of spelunking indicates that both available xorg-driver ebuilds
explicitly blacklist VGA, so I have nothing to fall back to. Thanks for
nothing fellas. Meanwhile, the microKnoppix "live CD" (actually on a
USB stick) has no problems running at 1024x768.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes [at] waltdnes>

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Xorg.0.log (8.73 KB)

neil at ep

Nov 9, 2009, 9:15 PM

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Re: Why is VGA card blacklisted in xorg-drivers??? [In reply to]

Walter Dnes wrote:
> A bit of spelunking indicates that both available xorg-driver ebuilds
> explicitly blacklist VGA,

Well, as VGA only officially supported up to 640x480, it's probably not very
useful for anything these days.

> so I have nothing to fall back to. Thanks for
> nothing fellas. Meanwhile, the microKnoppix "live CD" (actually on a
> USB stick) has no problems running at 1024x768

Which is a VESA res. Tried that? x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa is the usual
fallback.

Be lucky,

Neil
http://www.neiljw.com

waltdnes at waltdnes

Nov 10, 2009, 12:37 AM

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Re: Why is VGA card blacklisted in xorg-drivers??? [In reply to]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 05:15:27AM +0000, Neil Walker wrote

> Which is a VESA res. Tried that? x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa is the usual
> fallback.

Thanks. I should've known that, but I've never had a need for VESA
before. 1024x768 was supported natively by every driver I've used for
the past several years.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes [at] waltdnes>

waltdnes at waltdnes

Nov 10, 2009, 1:08 AM

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Re: Why is VGA card blacklisted in xorg-drivers??? [In reply to]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 05:15:27AM +0000, Neil Walker wrote

> Which is a VESA res. Tried that? x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa is the usual
> fallback.

<ELVIS>
Thank you, thank you, thank you verrry verrry much. It woiks!
</ELVIS>

I now have TWM up and running with some incredibly tiny fonts. I'll
be installing either Blackbox or Fluxbox on it.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes [at] waltdnes>

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