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From: Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problem with X.org after kernel change
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 21:53:36
Message-Id: 20070303154514.6af0a366@pascal.spore.ath.cx
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] problem with X.org after kernel change by pat
1 On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:04:51 +0100
2 pat <pat@××××××××.org> wrote:
3
4 > Hi,
5 >
6 > I want to switch from suspent2-sources to xen-sources. The
7 > suspend2-sources are 2.6.18-r1 and xen-sources are 2.6.16.28-r1 (btw
8 > I cannot find XEN section in 2.6.16.28-r2). Suspend2 kernel works
9 > fine to me, so I've installed xen-sources and did this to built it:
10 > 1) zcat /proc/config.gz > .config
11 > 2) make oldconfig
12 > 3) make menuconfig #(following the Gentoo documentation and manula
13 > configuration for separated vmlinuz dom0/domU)
14 > 4) update grub config file
15 >
16 > Then I rebooted my laptop and boot XEN kernel. And there's my
17 > problem. When I boot only to command line environment everything is
18 > fine, but when I try to boot to X.org the start process of the X.org
19 > stopped at GDM loading. The screen stays white with login field, but
20 > that's all. There's not possible to switch to text console. The
21 > attachment shows the GDM state (sorry for the quality, but I've did
22 > it by my cell phone :-) )
23 >
24 > When I try vanilla-sources (2.6.17.13) kernel, I got same result :-(
25 >
26 > Can someone point me to a solution?
27 >
28 > Thanks a lot
29 >
30 > Pat
31 >
32 > P.S. My graphics card is ATI Radeon M300 in IBM TP T43 and I'm using
33 > open source driver distributed with X.org.
34
35 If i were you i'd look into re-merging x11. that should sync it up
36 with whatever kernel version's in /usr/src/linux.
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