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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] lsmod and startx don't agree
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 04:26:09
Message-Id: 200610090620.31606.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] lsmod and startx don't agree by maxim wexler
1 On Monday 09 October 2006 05:56, maxim wexler wrote:
2 > Hello group,
3 >
4 > I don't remember the exact details but I noticed that
5 > any attempt to upgrade x11 revealed that everything
6 > under xorg-x11 was blocked. So I did emerge -C
7 > xorg-x11 then emerge xorg-x11. So far so good. I ran
8 > xorgconfig and passed it the same values as before
9 > since the hardware hasn't changed. Now when I run
10 > startx it gives:
11 >
12 > <...>
13 > (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Oct 8
14 > 21:34:33 2006
15 > (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
16 >
17 > (EE) Failed to load module "radeon" (module does not
18 > exist, 0)
19 > (EE) No drivers available.
20 >
21 > Fatal server error:
22 > no screens found
23 > XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on
24 > X server ":0.0"
25 > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0
26 > events remaining.
27 > heathen@localhost ~ $
28 >
29 > not true:
30 >
31 > heathen@localhost ~ $ lsmod
32 > Module Size Used by
33 > radeon 105216 0
34 > drm 68884 1 radeon
35 > agpgart 33904 1 drm
36 > <...>
37 >
38 > The modules are there under
39 > ../kernel/drivers/char/drm/ just as always.
40 >
41 > So I'm stumped.
42 >
43
44 I don't have an ATI card, but I am pretty sure, that X complains about the
45 missing radeon driver, not the missing kernel module
46
47 X driver module =/= kernel module
48
49 you need both.
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