On Sat, December 31, 2005 4:44 am, Rumen Yotov wrote: > On (31/12/05 01:49), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Earlier tonight I changed the setting in /etc/conf.d/rc for the >> RC_DEVICE_TARBALL from "yes" to "no" and rebooted. Now I can't get into >> GNOME. For my personal account after I enter my username/password the >> screen clears and I see the default background color and my mouse >> pointer, then nothing else. I can move the mouse pointer, but there's >> nothing the click on and the context menu doesn't come up when I >> right-click. When I tried to log in as root from the welcome screen I >> see the "GNOME Starting" box with the Gentoo logo, but it never goes on >> from that. To get out of both my personal account and the root account >> I had to Alt+Cntrl+Backspace. I got a Failsafe Terminal and looked at >> the log files for gdm and saw this: >> >> (EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No such file or directory) >> >> There are five log files in /var/log/gdm; they all say roughly the same >> thing, and their timestamps are consistent with the times I tried to log >> in and got stuck. I can't even find out why it's looking for this file >> or how to make it stop looking for it. Can anyone help me out here? >> -- >> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >> > Hi, > Are you using a Nvidia video card? > Reverting RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to "yes" should solve the problem but it's not > a solution. > udev isn't creating the /dev/agpgart file/link - check if it's there and > with what perms. > Rumen >
/dev/agpgart does not exist. As far as I know I am not using a Nvidia card. If I was I think I would have a /dev/nvidia as well as several other similar /dev files starting with nvid, but I don't... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
