PLUG'ers
I know there are some Gentoo pilots and some X gurus here, so I thought I would ask here before going over to xfree-newbies or gentoo-users.
I have a gentoo server that I have never run X on. No reason to run a GUI on a server. ;~) Well, now I have a honeypot project where I need to create a bunch of virtual machines. I want to experiment with VMWare for this, so I am moving to a new server and giving up this gentoo server for this (sweet) project. Heh.
Now, the server has the following video card.
# lspci -vv -s 01:00.0
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Pro Turbo AGP 2X
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (2000ns min), cache line size 08
Region 0: Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Region 1: I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
Region 2: Memory at d6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [50] AGP version 1.0
Status: RQ=256 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW- AGP3- Rate=x1,x2
Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- AGP- GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>
I already emerged xfree and ati-drivers.
# emerge -p xfree ati-drivers
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3
[ebuild R ] media-video/ati-drivers-3.2.8
When I run `XFree86 -configure`, it aborts with:
Fatal server error:
no screens found
The log at /var/log/XFree86.0.log is FULL of messages, but they are all Informational (II), except these:
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory)
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(EE) No devices detected.
I doubt the Warning (WW) about APM matters. I do not have APM support configured on this server. I think the last two lines describe the problem. I do not appear to have a driver suitable for the ATI card it is probing on PCI 01:00.0.
What am I missing?
...Kevin