LiveCD md5sum: 48c4536699d325524321c0ee6736b78a So I did complete a dynamic stage3 installation with a livecd-kernel (networkless installation) and rebooted. X didn't want to start: # startx xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.13419 X Window System Version 7.0.0 Release Date: 21 December 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0 Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 x86_64 Current Operating System: Linux localhost 2.6.17-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 15 23:47:35 UTC 2006 x86_64 Build Date: 06 August 2006 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present 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: Sun Aug 20 06:29:13 2006 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" dlopen: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so: undefined symbol: __glXLastContext (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so (EE) Failed to load module "GLcore" (loader failed, 7) (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. # ls /dev/fb0 ls: /dev/fb0: No such file or directory # ls -F /dev agpgart@ kmem psaux@ ram9@ tty tty24 tty40 tty57 vcs12 bus/ kmsg ptmx random tty0 tty25 tty41 tty58 vcs2 cdrom@ log= pts/ rd/ tty1 tty26 tty42 tty59 vcs3 cdrom1@ loop/ ram0@ rtc@ tty10 tty27 tty43 tty6 vcs4 cdrw@ loop0@ ram1@ sda tty11 tty28 tty44 tty60 vcs5 console loop1@ ram10@ sda1 tty12 tty29 tty45 tty61 vcs6 core@ loop2@ ram11@ sda2 tty13 tty3 tty46 tty62 vcs7 dac960_gam loop3@ ram12@ sda3 tty14 tty30 tty47 tty63 vcsa disk/ loop4@ ram13@ sda5 tty15 tty31 tty48 tty7 vcsa1 dvd@ loop5@ ram14@ sda6 tty16 tty32 tty49 tty8 vcsa12 fd@ loop6@ ram15@ sg0 tty17 tty33 tty5 tty9 vcsa2 full loop7@ ram2@ shm/ tty18 tty34 tty50 ttyS0 vcsa3 gpmctl= mapper/ ram3@ snd/ tty19 tty35 tty51 ttyS1 vcsa4 hda mcelog ram4@ stderr@ tty2 tty36 tty52 ttyS2 vcsa5 hdb mem ram5@ stdin@ tty20 tty37 tty53 ttyS3 vcsa6 hpet misc/ ram6@ stdout@ tty21 tty38 tty54 urandom vcsa7 initctl| null ram7@ synth tty22 tty39 tty55 vcs zero input/ port ram8@ tts/ tty23 tty4 tty56 vcs1
manually executing 'udevstart' didn't fix the problem
Try editing the kernel commandline in grub to include 'vga=791' (or whatever mode you want). I believe /dev/fb0 isn't getting created since there's no vga= option being passed.
Indeed, adding 'vga=791' fixed the problem.
OK. It looks like the proper "fix" for this is to use a different patch on amd64/x86 than on, say, sparc. Basically, because the "nv" driver sucks so badly, we're replacing it w/ fbdev. This works on the LiveCD because we're using the framebuffer. This would also be a problem if using "gentoo-nofb" on amd64/x86. On all other architectures, they set a framebuffer no matter what, so it isn't an issue. I had only tested it on "gentoo" and never thought about "gentoo-nofb" so I didn't catch it. Kugelfang/agaffney: You can change this in your fsscript to fix the issue. sed -i 's/DRIVER fbdev/DRIVER vesa/' /usr/share/hwdata/Cards I'll change hwdata-gentoo itself, so we don't have the same issue next release.
It's in my fsscript for the next build.
In my releng data.
I'm going to assume that this was FIXED, since I didn't hear otherwise. Also, I updated hwdata-gentoo, so future releases will be using VESA on x86/amd64, and fbdev on everything else.
