[clue-tech] Gentoo Xserver Error

Jason Ash wizardofki at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 23:51:00 MST 2010


Hi, as you know, I installed Gentoo on one of my desktops, and it went
pretty smoothly. So, I thought that I would install it on my laptop
and it would go faster because I had already been through it once.
I've emerged xorg-server and kde-meta successfully. However, when I
type startx, the screen goes black for a second, then it gives me an
error and goes back to the command line. My laptop is a Toshiba
Satellite L15-S104 with an Intel 852GM AGP graphics chip. Therefore,
in my make.conf file, the VIDEO_CARDS="intel". Also, I followed the
instructions on
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA#Kernel_Modesetting and
configured my kernel with:
Device Drivers  --->
    Graphics support  --->
        ...
        <*> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI
support)  --->
            <M>   Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G (i915 driver)  --->
                  <M> i915 driver
                    [*] Enable modesetting on intel by default

and emerged the xf86-video-intel drivers. In /etc/conf.d/xdm the
DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm". I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I've
recompiled my kernel several times to try to get it to work, and
Google isn't much help with this problem. Below is a copy of the
output when I type startx. Any advice is welcome.

xauth:  creating new authority file /home/jason/.serverauth.13457


X.Org X Server 1.6.5
Release Date: 2009-10-11
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 i686
Current Operating System: Linux tux2 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 #1 SMP Thu Jan
14 05:10:01 MST 2010 i686
Build Date: 14 January 2010  04:33:18AM

	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Jan 14 06:00:19 2010
(==) Using default built-in configuration (39 lines)
(EE) Failed to load module "i810" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
FATAL: Module fbcon not found.
Setting master
expected keysym, got XF86TouchpadToggle: line 122 of inet
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 58: twm: command not found
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 59: xclock: command not found
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 60: xterm: command not found
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 61: xterm: command not found
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 62: exec: xterm: not found

waiting for X server to shut down Dropping master

Thanks,
Jason


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