Completely new computer w/ clean install from gentoo live CD. everything emerged w/o a problem. Follow all advice and used make.conf defaults. launch /etc/init.d/xdm start KDE4 login screen appears. Accepts password for user Monitor goes black returns to KDE login screen Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Insert Gentoo live CD in brand new computer 2.emerge everything kde-meta 3./etc/init.d/xdm start 4.Login Actual Results: KDE login screen loops Expected Results: Should launch KDE desktop >emerge --info Portage 2.1.7.16 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_II_X2_240_Processor-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://barad-dur/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 avi berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cdrw cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus divx4linux dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread dvdrw eds emboss encode evo fam fame firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk hal hpijs iconv imlib ipv6 java jpeg jpg kde ldap libnotify live mad matroska mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline realmedia reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subtitles svg sysfs tcpd theora thunar tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis wmp x264 xanim xine xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="nvidia" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa nvidia fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY >lspci 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a1) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2) 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2) 00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2) 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a3) 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a3) 00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1) 00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2) 00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 IDE (rev a2) 00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2) 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2) 00:08.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2) 00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2) 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2) 00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2) 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control 00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Link Control
Created attachment 218491 [details] kdm.log
Created attachment 218493 [details] xorg-x11 log
in fact there was one small problem, when I reached the KDM login screen the KB and Mouse would not work. I found that: x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev was not emerged. Why would this not be pulled in with xorg-x11?
after reading Xorg docs, I find that the black screen of death is really ok, by using: Xorg -config /root/xorg.conf.new --retro you can have the original results of cross-hatch and mouse 'x'. So Xorg and nividia are installed correctly. once again Xorg, why???
Which KDE version? Which X11 version?
(In reply to comment #5) > Which KDE version? > Which X11 version? 4.3.3 1.6.5
Could you please try current stable (4.3.5) or 4.4.2?
(II) LoadModule: "dri" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module dri (II) UnloadModule: "dri" (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0) (II) LoadModule: "dri2" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module dri2 (II) UnloadModule: "dri2" (EE) Failed to load module "dri2" (module does not exist, 0) This looks like a problem with the nvidia drivers. Could you please re-emerge nvidia-drivers, reboot and then try again?! Also, could you please attach your xorg.conf ?!
(In reply to comment #8) > This looks like a problem with the nvidia drivers. Could you please re-emerge > nvidia-drivers, reboot and then try again?! even I can google nvidia, module dri, xorg and tell you that this error is meaningless, as nvidia does not need module dri (or dri2) and you simply need to remove those lines from xorg.conf (as I have done on this computer and my 3 other ones). In addition, you seem to forget that X -config and kdm_greet run fine, which they would not do if nvidia drivers were not working. But... I will re-emerge ... ok done - same problem remains
Created attachment 227439 [details] xorg.conf
emerged -e kde-meta problem is gone! I am sorry but I just could not do without this workstation any longer