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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X -configure find video drivers that do not exist
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:20:28
Message-Id: 20100119141942.598e3694@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] X -configure find video drivers that do not exist by Xi Shen
1 On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:17:09 +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
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3 > my system is gentoo amd64, with kde 4.3. previously, i installed more
4 > video drivers than i need, now i removed the unused ones. but each
5 > time when i ran 'X -configure', if can still find some of those video
6 > drivers and try to load them, and complains
7 > that the module does not exist. i guess some of the configuration of X
8 > is not updated. but i do not know which one.
9
10 That sounds more like X is detecting the hardware and trying to load the
11 module it thinks it needs for that hardware, which you have now unmerged.
12
13 Can you post the exact error message, "X complains..." doesn't give us
14 much to go on.
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18 Neil Bothwick
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20 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
21 temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
22 Benjamin Franklin

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Re: [gentoo-user] X -configure find video drivers that do not exist Xi Shen <davidshen84@××××××××××.com>