emerge xorg-x11 not working

**d38dm8nw81k1ng** · 09-24-2005

Originally Posted by jaboua

Originally Posted by d38dm8nw81k1ng

i have nvidia drivers but i didn't use them when i first booted gentoo. i just used the vga driver, then emerged nvidia afterwards (with lots of problems). if you are trying to use nvidia, try using vga first. if you are using vga then you are definately having a problem with portage.

The MesaGL libraries is simply a opengl implementation using software rendering, not hardware acceleration... So if he's using VGA, he'll probably use MesaGL for 3d.

BTW, do an "emerge -S mesa|less" to look for packages mentioning mesa, if you find a mesagl package, emerge it and then try remerge xorg-x11.

ok, gotcha. but

Code:

emerge xorg

should get all the dependancies, including any openGL libraries. i'd assume that's what it did for me since everything worked fine.
tuxxman, are you using the package CD? that should have the dependancies but it's not as reliable as the internet

**jaboua** · 09-24-2005

Originally Posted by d38dm8nw81k1ng

ok, gotcha. but

Code:

emerge xorg

should get all the dependancies, including any openGL libraries. i'd assume that's what it did for me since everything worked fine.
tuxxman, are you using the package CD? that should have the dependancies but it's not as reliable as the internet

It did get all the deps here too, every time I've tried, however it's worth a shot, maybe it was a faulty install?

**membrake** · 09-28-2005

In my experience libGL problems were mostly due to the proprietary ati driver, in your case maybe nvidia does the same. I would suggest doing:

Code:

eselect opengl list

To see what opengl interfaces you have there, if any. Then (as root):

Code:

eselect opengl set <nvidia|xorg-x11|other?>

(BTW, this does the same as opengl-update, which is deprecated.)
If nothing shows up, you might have to install an opengl interface, like mesa, or reinstall nvidia's driver (updating the kernel for instance should break it, if it's anything like ati's).
Hope this helps.

**onlinebacon** · 10-02-2005

I also heard that if you do emerge fluxbox (or whatever WM you need) then it will get the dependencies (including X11) for ya

**d38dm8nw81k1ng** · 10-04-2005

i'd agree that should work, but i believe that the problem is a broken portage installation. tuxx, could you post back if you've fixed the problem?

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