cfk schreef: > Gentlemen: > > Here's what I have found over the last day or so in trying to get to X > functionality. This is with a computer with more then one distribution, and > the others all have X functionality. The computer is an Intel 810 motherboard > with the i810 integrated graphics device. > > I can see there is no /dev/mouse0 or /dev/agpgart on the Gentoo partition as > there is on the Fedora partition, so part of the installation is incomplete. > > I copied the known functional /etc/X11/xorg.conf from the known functional > Fedora X installation. > > When I invoke, startx, I get two errors. One has to do with the > missing /dev/agpgart and the other has to do with the missing /dev/mouse0. > > I did try to follow the "X Server Configuration Howto" at gentoo.org with > 'emerge xorg-x11', 'env-update', 'xorgconfig' and others, but I obviously > missed a step and my naivety is showing a little bit. > > What installation step have I missed that precluded Gentoo from creating > these two device nodes (and perhaps some others) that keep me from getting to > the next step, an X windows screen (forget about KDE for now, I would be > happy just to get a pointer moving around on the screen). > > Charles Krinke
I think (read, "suspect") that you have missed one step, and mistaken one step. I suspect that your mouse is fine, but you're looking for the wrong device. Is your Fedora installation based on a 2.4-series kernel? If you change your device in xorg.conf to /dev/input/mice (the default for the 2.6-series kernel you now most likely have), I bet it will work. As for the missing agpgart, that could well be because your motherboard needs a specific driver (for instance, my VIA KM266A board needs both /dev/agpgart in the kernel, and also via-agp either statically or as a module, or else I won't have AGP support). So I would check your kernel config and make sure that any chipset support for the AGP bus that you may need for your specific mobo has been compiled either statically, or as a module. If a module, don't forget to add it to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 . Hope this helps, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
