Re: [gentoo-user] problems with kernel upgrade - Intel i810 won't start

[Mark Knecht]

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

Hi Andrey,
   OK, I got it going. Thanks for your help. I had to change the
VIDEO_CARDS setting to "intel", not the "i810" like it used to be, and
then emerge xorg-server.

   Again, thanks for the pointer.

Cheers,
Mark