Ever since xorg-server 1.12.1 was removed from portage, I have not been able to get X working. The initial forum post: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7237602.html The bug eventually posted in the freedesktop.org Xorg database https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60180 The investigator from the xorg team suggested that the problem may be with a gentoo-specific modification. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install xorg-server > 1.12.1 2.run startx Actual Results: Server terminates with [ 7084.295] (II) [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled. [ 7084.295] (EE) No devices detected. [ 7084.295] Fatal server error: [ 7084.295] no screens found [ 7084.296] (EE)
I vaguely remember that the ppc issue was udev related. But I don't have a link right now. Anyway, the only Gentoo patch to xorg-server-1.12.4 is the patch to not build ACPI code. ACPI does not even exist on ppc systems, so this is unlikely to cause your problems.
udev does seem to be functioning but the X server reports no devices found when run from startx or crashes if Xorg -configure is run. What can I do to help?
That X -configure crashes is expected with KMS. You can check qlop -lu output which other packages were upgraded at the same time as xorg-server. Old ebuilds can be retrieved from CVS http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/x11-base/xorg-server/ (click on show dead files) and copied to a local overlay.
I originally noticed the problem around October/November (or whenever xorg-server > 1.12.1 went stable) and would downgraded xorg-server back to 1.12.1 and exclude xorg-server from every world-update subsequently. But eventually I performed a world update that broke things (including X) which revdep-rebuild fixed but at the same time xorg-server 1.12.1 had been removed from portage, so I couldn't go back. Here's the output of qlop -lu http://gentoo.pastebin.ca/2310682
cd /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-server/ wget http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/x11-base/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.12.1.ebuild?revision=1.1 ebuild xorg-server-1.12.1.ebuild digest added the line =x11-base/xorg-server-1.12.1 ~ppc to /etc/portage/package.keywords emerge -vD =x11-base/xorg-server-1.12.1 qlist -I -C x11-drivers/ emerge -vD xf86-input-evdev xf86-video-ati startx now takes a long time to run, even blinking up to 3 times during 35-45 seconds and then 3 graphical-mode xterms appear. X is running! I re-added xdm to the default runlevel and issued the shutdown command When the computer booted back up, it took it about 4-5 minutes and 3-4 blinks but at the end a message came up saying gdm could not start, even though the Xorg.0.log file says everything worked! Xorg.0.log: http://gentoo.pastebin.ca/2310724
I'd guess that this is the same bug as the one I'm marking it as a duplicate of. Basically, the PCI device detection seems broken. You can work around this by specifying the BusID of the device. Also remember that the driver needs to support KMS to work with this version of X, the older UMS drivers no longer seem to work. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 446253 ***
