From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KvHMV-0007Rd-4K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:09:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4AF90E03DE; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:09:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.184]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D55E03DE for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:09:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c7so120180nfi.26 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:09:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=6jjERPNYfphrgNGCMuhKZx8pbUOaj9m13EMzqDgtU8w=; b=xFNYLb3AdJgJeJaov0kNTCigm+YmHRNlZv70knfQIuEVIgN6PFYkOneGvGwl51o+rw 080xvQ8ylWibcHGd3Cqi1cFDKyVt4g0UCRnAX6N/ZtQEUV+9CteZMq/x6MkN7ghzhCNY NUa+5x3mBBD+XHR2/5J8QgtkEhCp/0/VEdZ+I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=BFHKDI9adSK85ZKkWkQASrDFxqcbBR7+RUV+aStL+wtPB97tL/oIvFnNqn058GsDY9 /4il6BQPBnze49CN//IEZpcbp8lgXhmUsOSjCz2OVeMf+8+oL+JKpDudGCE6nwnzJOpm 4ttxuQ2mVXkdnT/Y5nPMdemLEqAAYJup07vv0= Received: by 10.210.12.18 with SMTP id 18mr1521193ebl.130.1225310988346; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:09:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.210.19.6 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:09:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:09:48 +0000 From: Beso To: "Tassilo Horn" Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: problems with xorg on gentoo amd64 Cc: xorg@freedesktop.org, gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <87r65zihdb.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <87r65zihdb.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> X-Archives-Salt: 1ba83ada-93d6-44fa-a465-b5d3a918ecbe X-Archives-Hash: 9c56ef1f8963da859d0dce77b882cf4e 2008/10/29 Tassilo Horn : > Beso writes: > > Hi! > >> i'm crossposting to both xorg and gentoo amd64 mailing list to have >> more audience since the problem might be related to either gentoo or >> xorg itself. >> >> on sunday i've updated hal on gentoo and after reboot xorg stopped >> starting. the problem was that it cannot open the drm device. > > I had that problem, too. I work around it by loading the driver module > explicitly in /etc/conf.d/modules. > > ,---- > | # i915 is my graphics card (intel) driver > | modules="i915" > `---- > > Bye, > Tassilo > -- > There are no such things as tornados. Chuck Norris just hates trailer parks. > > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > xorg@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > you were right. after manually loading drm and radeon driver before xorg xorg starts. it really seems that there is something wrong somewhere that prevents xorg to automatically load the required modules. -- dott. ing. beso