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From: Andrey Falko <ma3oxuct@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problems with kernel upgrade - Intel i810 won't start
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:30:06
Message-Id: 350fc7cf0811071830g68d2aea1o6404c0e0aee6d2e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] problems with kernel upgrade - Intel i810 won't start by Mark Knecht
1 On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > Hi,
4 > It's been a long, long, long time since I've updated any kernels
5 > but my wife's machine finally came up for review so I got started.
6 > I've built and booted 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 but unfortunately I'm having
7 > some trouble with the video driver. Note that this machine has run
8 > Gentoo for a long time but last used a 2.6.20 kernel.
9 >
10 > When starting gdm I get a text screen telling me the X server
11 > failed and showing these messages in the Xorg log file:
12 >
13 > dragonfly ~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
14 > Current Operating System: Linux dragonfly 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 #4 SMP
15 > PREEMPT Fri Nov 7 16:23:23 PST 2008 i686
16 > (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
17 > (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
18 > (EE) Failed to load module "i810" (module does not exist, 0)
19 > (EE) No drivers available.
20 > dragonfly ~ #
21 >
22 >
23 >
24 >
25 Did you do something like this?:
26
27 emerge x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810
28
29 or this:
30
31 add VIDEO_CARDS="i810" to make.conf
32 then emerge -DuavN xorg-x11

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Re: [gentoo-user] problems with kernel upgrade - Intel i810 won't start Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>