Talk:HOWTO Modular Xorg

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[edit] Welcome

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-- AllenJB 23:36, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] font problem

X claims "Fatal server error: could not open default font `fixed`" <- what shall i do?

First run "revdep-rebuild -p -X -i" and re-emerge anything that needs to be re-emerged. Then run "xorgconfig" ..I was using a bad xorg.conf from a RHEL system that tried to use a fontserver rather than a font path. If that doesn't fix the problem then keep reading.

16:50 < drac> emerge -av font-alias font-misc-misc (courtesy of #gentoo-x (not a support forum))

March 26, 2006: I had the same problem. Currently running ~amd64 on 2.6.16-gentoo SMP with xorg-x11-7.0-r1 I fixed it by commenting out the /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic line in /etc/X11/fs/config.

 
#    /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic,
  

April 29, 2006: I also had the problem, turns out its a dependency problem with fonts built upon the libXfont.so file. Take a look at the output of fc-cache -vf if most of your directories show 0 fonts try this fix:

And then reemerge fonts:

2006-12-24: <sigra> I had the same problem and instead of copying /usr/lib/libXfont.so.1.4.1 to /usr/lib/libXfont.so.1.5 I just deleted /usr/lib/libXfont.so.1.5.

24 Dec 2006: <FokeyJoe> I'm no expert, but it looks like Xorg is ignoring it's own xorg.conf file FontPath settings. My fix was to do:

[edit] Could not open default cursor font 'cursor'

after installing X117 , when i type startx , i have the message "could not open default font 'cursor'". After looking around the web, and trying different solutions, i still cannot resolve this problem. 
If anyone as encounterd this problem, could he/she help me finding a solution..

Tnx, labreche

fix: emerge font-cursor-misc

HCl

[edit] New configuration file locations

Which files are used now from /etc/X11? Can anyone posting the files in /etc/X11 wich I can savely remove?

[edit] xvinfo masked

Hi! A command

emerge xvinfo

fails because xvinfo is currently masked. See [1]. Miraceti 07:31, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] KUser, SuperUser File Manager doesn't work anymore

Decibels

[edit] Restoring Backup Package

Due to problems with evdev support and direct rendering with an ATI R350 chip in Xorg 7.1, I attempted to restore my previous monolithic build made from quickpkg, following those instructions.

Upon doing so, I discovered that the dependency tree of the 100+ modular packages for Xorg 7.1 was not cleaned. Furthermore, when the restore did not work (startx was unable to find sufficient modules to load twm), and I then attempted to try Xorg 7.0, most of the dependencies were broken - portage thought they were installed, but many headers and binaries were missing, as my old package was cleared out again in the process of attempting the upgrade to Xorg 7.0.

I had to eventually emerge against a slightly newer but still monolithic xorg 6.8.2 build that was in portage to find all the blocking packages and remove them.

Akili

[edit] nvidia-drivers and xorg 7.1

The current stable version of nvidia-drivers is 1.0.8776. It still has problems with xorg 7.1 ? Should the nvidia-drivers section in the HOWTO be updated ?

Ismael

[edit] Wikification

Can the introduction of this article explain what exactly is modular xorg? what's the difference with "normal" xorg, for example? Also, please remove the notice saying that effectively only AllenJB can edit this page. - Tulcod 03:13, 29 March 2008 (UTC)