The Live 2006.0 CD hanged when I tried to install it on my Dell Inspiron E1705. I tried installing with the GTK+ based Gentoo Linux Installer, and it hangs at the grey screen at launch time. It gets through booting sequence, but during the details, I noticed the following error: Creating X Confiugration FATAL : Module evdev not found Video is Intel CorplMobild Integrated Graphics controller, using X(vesa) Server The graphics card is an Intel 950G Internal video card.
How much video RAM is allocated?
I believe 224 MB should be allocated, though I'm not sure how to verify this.
224MB to an onboard video card?
On Intel's website they specify that the card is capable of up 224 MB of video memory. http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma950/
Please try this: "gentoo nox" at the boot prompt /etc/init.d/x-setup restart sed -i 's/vesa/i810/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf gdm Let me know if that works.
Thanks. I gave that a try, but the command to restart the x-setup service hangs after displaying the following messages: * Chaching service dependencies ... * Configuring OpenGL * No OpenGL-capable card found. * If you have a card that you know is supported by either the ATI or * NVIDIA binary drivers, please file a bug witht he output of lspci * on http://bugs.gentoo.org so we can resolve this. * Switching to xorg-x11 OpenGL interface ... After which it hangs indefinitely
Strange. It shouldn't take more than about 1-2 minutes, at most. Alright, we'll try the same thing, but instead of x-setup, try mkxf86config. That should definitely work.
Sorry I didn't get to try this earlier.... I made it past the restart, but when I started gdm, the x server failed to start. The error log reports the following: (EE) Failed to load mudule "speedo" (module does not exist, 0) (WW) I810: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1) found (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found
Strangely enough, I ran across an almost identical problem with a co-worker's machine and the current stable X.Org release. Actually, it was the exact same error. I wonder if that X server version simply didn't have support for the i950G yet.
Well, there were some issues with the older CD simply not having support for the newer video cards. Anyway, this should be resolved with the 2006.1 release, so I am marking this one as FIXED.
