building Xgl under debian/sid

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 03:23:48PM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 12:48, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 19:55 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: 
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to build Xgl under debian/sid. 
> > 
> > It's not possible with sid only, you'll need some packages from
> > experimental at least, see below. Note that it's probably easier to use
> > the Ubuntu dapper xserver-xgl and compiz packages at this point.
> 
> Xgl doesn't start:
> 
> [xorg says: whoa no modules eh]
>  
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> 
> Here's the commandline I used (from gdm.conf):
> [...]
> 
> Does Xgl need a special conf file or some other args ?
> Do I really need the "mouse" & "keyboard" modules (I suppose that means
> some more debs to install) ?

That's Xorg failing to start, not Xgl failing.  May I recommend
installing xserver-xorg-{input-{keyboard,mouse},video-ati}?