Problem with xorg (Solved)

knappen · 2006-08-08 14:57:16

I am having this strange problem with xorg. I configure with

 Xorg -configure

and test the setting with

X -config /home/xorg.conf.new

and everything works fine. When I copy the new file to /etc/X11 and type startx I get an error message saying that dri is not loaded.

What am I doing wrong?

I am installing on a IBM T21 laptop.

Thanks for any input!

noriko · 2006-08-08 15:09:16

what do you copy it as?

it should copied to /etc/X11/xorg.conf

or

/etc/X11/XF86Config

knappen · 2006-08-09 07:42:23

I did that and still had some problems. However, I managed to get it working last night but still with some errors.

Thank you for your help!

noriko · 2006-08-09 08:38:20

np :-) ..

well... chances are that someone else will get this problem, so if you don't mind, kould you be so kidn as to share your solution with us...

and btw, what are [long_standing]these errors...

knappen · 2006-08-09 08:42:08

Well the path for the mouse was wrong.

It complains about DRI not being enabled and that it could not load GLX. Apart from that it works fine.

noriko · 2006-08-09 11:30:39

oh :twisted: ye old Xorg path changes lol...

if it works then it most likely doesn't need dri.
which prolly means, u r using the nvidia drivers..

so u should just comment out the line that loads it..

if u r usiing nvidia drivers.. u r prolly gonna feel silly lol.. but if u'd just ran, nvidia-xconfigure..
u would have al this trouble

knappen · 2006-08-09 12:55:41

Ha ha.

No I am using savage driver.

jaboua · 2006-08-09 15:08:14

knappen wrote:

Ha ha.
No I am using savage driver.

Stupid question, but is DRI installed? And I belive it has to be enabled in the kernel, perhaps you need to load some kernel modules?

knappen · 2006-08-09 20:21:24

Yes I did install DRI. Not really into kernel stuff yet.

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