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From: Xi Shen <davidshen84@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X -configure find video drivers that do not exist
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:08:38
Message-Id: 53e35fd51001190007y47c2abf8sce180e0d8e09b323@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] X -configure find video drivers that do not exist by Alan McKinnon
1 On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 19 January 2010 08:17:09 Xi Shen wrote:
3 >> hi,
4 >>
5 >> my system is gentoo amd64, with kde 4.3. previously, i installed more
6 >> video drivers than i need, now i removed the unused ones. but each
7 >> time when i ran 'X -configure', if can still find some of those video
8 >> drivers and try to load them, and complains that the module does not
9 >> exist. i guess some of the configuration of X is not updated. but i do
10 >> not know which one.
11 >
12 > How did you install them?
13 >
14 > Did you emerge them directly? Then you unmerge them with emerge -C
15 >
16 > Did you include them in VIDEO_CARDS? Then run emerge --depclean
17 >
18 > Then clean up your xorg.conf manually
19 >
20 > --
21 > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
22 >
23 >
24
25 i removed the unused drivers from VIDEO_CARDS, then ran emerge
26 --depclean; and i unemerged the ones i emerged manually. but there's
27 still some can be listed while running X -configure. very weired.
28
29
30 --
31 Best Regards,
32 David Shen
33
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