I recently upgraded from Xorg 6.8 to 7.0, and now whenever starting a Gnome session, I get the following error message in a dialog box before the splash screen appears (no window manager, no Nautilus desktop): "Required Xv attribute not found, update your X driver" Clicking "OK" results in a normal startup. No other graphics problems are apparent. Investigation of .xsession-errors yields: "Could not find XV_QUERYVBFLAGS attribute, update your X driver" My graphics chip is an onboard SiS 741, and my Xorg versions are: x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1 x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.8.1.3 I'm running Gnome 2.14, with: gnome-base/gnome-session-2.14.2 gnome-base/gdm-2.14.9-r1 gnome-base/nautilus-2.14.1 emerge --info is: Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Duron(tm) processor Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X aac acl acpi aim alsa artworkextra asf avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 c++ cairo cli crypt cups curl dbus directfb divx4linux dlloader dts dvd encode esd exif fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb gif gimpprint glitz gnome gpm gs gstreamer gstreamer010 gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal howl icq imagemagick inkjar ipv6 isdnlog jabber java javascript joystick jpeg justify kerberos lame latex lcms libwww mad mikmod mime mmap mmx mmxext mng mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg msn musicbrainz ncurses network new-login nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg oggvorbis opengl oscar pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds pppd python qt4 quicktime readline real reflection samba sdl session sndfile spell spl sse ssl svg tagwriting tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf xine xml2 xorg xpm xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yahoo zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_wacom kernel_linux linguas_en userland_GNU video_cards_sis" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Try w/ xf86-video-sis-0.9.1-r1?
(In reply to comment #1) > Try w/ xf86-video-sis-0.9.1-r1? > Tried it (along with upgrading Xorg to 1.1.1 and bumping the other drivers up too). It didn't fix it.
> Tried it (along with upgrading Xorg to 1.1.1 and bumping the other drivers up That is to say, x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.1.
Ah---I found it! It was sisctrl throwing the error message. Upgrading from the x86-marked x11-misc/sisctrl-0.0.20031119 to ~x86 x11-misc/sisctrl-0.0.20050618 solved the problem. Sorry to bother you!
