Since the newer versions of XFree86 are no longer GPL compliant and the fork in the X project, I thought maybe that handbook could use the xorg-x11 ebuild rather than the XFree86 (once xorg-x11 becomes stable). Just a thought since the trend seems to be moving away from XFree86. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Sure; can you point me to some interesting threads or websites where the installation and configuration of xorg-x11 is explained clearly? As it is a fork, I assume there are no major changes in configuration, but one never knows...
We'll probably have to postpone this till later. I tried to doing a clean install of xorg-x11 (I had completely wiped my system) and it won't find the nvidia driver (closed source from nvidia). This worked fine after I unmerged XFree but when I do a clean install I get can't find module. I have hotplug running but did a "modprobe nvidia" and lsmod to verify it was loaded. It was, but I still got the error.
Well, the current draft uses Xorg-x11 as X11 server (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/draft/desktop.xml), I will probably add a paragraph or some hints that XFree86 is configured on almost identical way. It'll take some time before the desktop part goes official I think (dunno, perhaps I'll find a few hours to rush up things :) so until then I'll leave it as-is.
Please ignore comment number #2. Selecting the correct kernel options usually helps when you want to load modules. Thanks,
The (draft) handbook uses xorg now, marking as FIXED. Thanks for the input and the e-mail :)
