VIDEO_CARDS was/is set. The tweaking was in USE - 'png' was necessary before 'emerge cario'.

Gpm


On 11/7/06, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 16:06, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 November 2006 15:00, Mick wrote:
> > > The kernel seems good, I've added 'gpm', and 'xorg-x11'. startx
> > > fails complaining about:
> > > (EE) Failed to load module "radeon" (module does not exist, 0)
> > > (EE) No drivers available.
> > >
> > > My question - how do I get/build this module?
> >
> > Add radeon in your /etc/make.conf under VIDEO_CARDS="radeon"
>
> And then run:
>
> # emerge --newuse -va x11-base/xorg-server

Hang on a sec, if VIDEO_CARDS is empty or non-existent, doesn't the
ebuild default to building all drivers, like 6.8 did? I never tried
this myself, but I read it in a wiki HOWTO.

If true, surely Greg's problem would never have happened?

alan

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