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On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Andrey Falko <ma3oxuct@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> |
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> wrote: |
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> >>> |
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> >>> Hi, |
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> >>> It's been a long, long, long time since I've updated any kernels |
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> >>> but my wife's machine finally came up for review so I got started. |
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> >>> I've built and booted 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 but unfortunately I'm having |
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> >>> some trouble with the video driver. Note that this machine has run |
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> >>> Gentoo for a long time but last used a 2.6.20 kernel. |
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> >>> When starting gdm I get a text screen telling me the X server |
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> >>> failed and showing these messages in the Xorg log file: |
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> >>> dragonfly ~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE |
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> >>> Current Operating System: Linux dragonfly 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 #4 SMP |
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> >>> PREEMPT Fri Nov 7 16:23:23 PST 2008 i686 |
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> >>> (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. |
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> >>> (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER |
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> >>> (EE) Failed to load module "i810" (module does not exist, 0) |
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> >>> (EE) No drivers available. |
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> >>> dragonfly ~ # |
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> >> |
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> >> Did you do something like this?: |
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> >> emerge x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810 |
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> >> or this: |
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> >> add VIDEO_CARDS="i810" to make.conf |
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> >> then emerge -DuavN xorg-x11 |
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> > I do have the VIDEO_CARDS="i810" in make.conf but I haven't rebuilt |
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> > xorg-x11. Is that generally required when doing a kernel change these |
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> > days? |
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> > I'm pretty sure the driver I loaded was from the kernel, not from X11 |
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> > so that could easily be the problem. |
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> > Let me work on it. |
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> > Thanks, |
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> > Mark |
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> Hi Andrey, |
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> OK, I got it going. Thanks for your help. I had to change the |
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> VIDEO_CARDS setting to "intel", not the "i810" like it used to be, and |
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> then emerge xorg-server. |
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> Again, thanks for the pointer. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Mark |
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Cool. Good digging around on your part! |
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