On (31/12/05 10:15), Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Sat, December 31, 2005 4:44 am, Rumen Yotov wrote: > > On (31/12/05 01:49), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Earlier tonight I changed the setting in /etc/conf.d/rc for the > >> RC_DEVICE_TARBALL from "yes" to "no" and rebooted. Now I can't get into > >> GNOME. For my personal account after I enter my username/password the > >> screen clears and I see the default background color and my mouse > >> pointer, then nothing else. I can move the mouse pointer, but there's > >> nothing the click on and the context menu doesn't come up when I > >> right-click. When I tried to log in as root from the welcome screen I > >> see the "GNOME Starting" box with the Gentoo logo, but it never goes on > >> from that. To get out of both my personal account and the root account > >> I had to Alt+Cntrl+Backspace. I got a Failsafe Terminal and looked at > >> the log files for gdm and saw this: > >> > >> (EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No such file or directory) > >> > >> There are five log files in /var/log/gdm; they all say roughly the same > >> thing, and their timestamps are consistent with the times I tried to log > >> in and got stuck. I can't even find out why it's looking for this file > >> or how to make it stop looking for it. Can anyone help me out here? > >> -- > >> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >> > > Hi, > > Are you using a Nvidia video card? > > Reverting RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to "yes" should solve the problem but it's not > > a solution. > > udev isn't creating the /dev/agpgart file/link - check if it's there and > > with what perms. > > Rumen > > > > /dev/agpgart does not exist. As far as I know I am not using a Nvidia > card. If I was I think I would have a /dev/nvidia as well as several > other similar /dev files starting with nvid, but I don't... > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > Hi, Then check the AGP support in kernel-config, but most likely it's not the problem. Read the "udev guide" might help. Sorry out of ideas. Happy New Year to ALL. Rumen
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