On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Andrey Falko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
