[gentoo-user] Stuck on enabling drm for xorg-server.

[gentoo-user] Stuck on enabling drm for xorg-server.

[James Homuth]

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I'm running Gentoo on a 5-year-old Presario 2200 series with onboard intel
graphics card. I've managed to get everything working on it so far, with the
exception of xorg+dri. I *think* I've compiled everything into the kernel
that needs to be for intel's GMA graphics cards (I have an 852/855 card, if
that helps you any). For testing purposes, I reboot the system, and modprobe
all the modules I'm told I need to in order to get drm up and running
(agpgart, intel-agp, drm, i915), but I still get "unable to open display"
when I try to run glxinfo. The card itself is PCI, if that makes any kind of
difference. I'm probably having an idiot moment (it *is* just now coming up
on 6:00 in the morning over here), so I'm entirely open to the possibility
I'm going entirely the wrong direction with this. Any pointers would be
greatly appreciated. It should be noted that, per an article on the gentoo
wiki archive (the only one about intel GMA cards I could find), I've
compiled both AGP support as well as DRM into the kernel, the former as a
module (currently loaded, along with everything else mentioned above), in
spite of the fact the card itself is PCI. If you need any further info, I'll
be more than happy to provide it. Thank you in advance for anything you can
tell me.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on enabling drm for xorg-server.

[Florian Philipp]

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James Homuth schrieb:
> I'm running Gentoo on a 5-year-old Presario 2200 series with onboard
> intel graphics card. I've managed to get everything working on it so
> far, with the exception of xorg+dri. I *think* I've compiled everything
> into the kernel that needs to be for intel's GMA graphics cards (I have
> an 852/855 card, if that helps you any). For testing purposes, I reboot
> the system, and modprobe all the modules I'm told I need to in order to
> get drm up and running (agpgart, intel-agp, drm, i915), but I still get
> "unable to open display" when I try to run glxinfo. The card itself is
> PCI, if that makes any kind of difference. I'm probably having an idiot
> moment (it *is* just now coming up on 6:00 in the morning over here), so
> I'm entirely open to the possibility I'm going entirely the wrong
> direction with this. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. It
> should be noted that, per an article on the gentoo wiki archive (the
> only one about intel GMA cards I could find), I've compiled both AGP
> support as well as DRM into the kernel, the former as a module
> (currently loaded, along with everything else mentioned above), in spite
> of the fact the card itself is PCI. If you need any further info, I'll
> be more than happy to provide it. Thank you in advance for anything you
> can tell me.

Is your user in the video group?

P.S.: There is such a thing we use here. It's called paragraph and helps
reading longer mails a lot. ;)


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RE: [gentoo-user] Stuck on enabling drm for xorg-server.

[James Homuth]

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Florian Philipp [mailto:lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net] 
Sent: June 25, 2009 11:33 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on enabling drm for xorg-server.

Is your user in the video group?

It is, yes. And, just for kicks, I also ran glxinfo as root with same
result.

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on enabling drm for xorg-server.

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Donnerstag 25 Juni 2009, James Homuth wrote:
> I'm running Gentoo on a 5-year-old Presario 2200 series with onboard intel
> graphics card. I've managed to get everything working on it so far, with
> the exception of xorg+dri. I *think* I've compiled everything into the
> kernel that needs to be for intel's GMA graphics cards (I have an 852/855
> card, if that helps you any). For testing purposes, I reboot the system,
> and modprobe all the modules I'm told I need to in order to get drm up and
> running (agpgart, intel-agp, drm, i915), but I still get "unable to open
> display" when I try to run glxinfo. The card itself is PCI, if that makes
> any kind of difference. I'm probably having an idiot moment (it *is* just
> now coming up on 6:00 in the morning over here), so I'm entirely open to
> the possibility I'm going entirely the wrong direction with this. Any
> pointers would be greatly appreciated. It should be noted that, per an
> article on the gentoo wiki archive (the only one about intel GMA cards I
> could find), I've compiled both AGP support as well as DRM into the kernel,
> the former as a module (currently loaded, along with everything else
> mentioned above), in spite of the fact the card itself is PCI. If you need
> any further info, I'll be more than happy to provide it. Thank you in
> advance for anything you can tell me.

try adding consolekit to the default runlevel....

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on enabling drm for xorg-server.

[Gene Hannan]

James Homuth wrote:
> I'm running Gentoo on a 5-year-old Presario 2200 series with onboard
> intel graphics card. I've managed to get everything working on it so
> far, with the exception of xorg+dri. I *think* I've compiled everything
> into the kernel that needs to be for intel's GMA graphics cards (I have
> an 852/855 card, if that helps you any). For testing purposes, I reboot
> the system, and modprobe all the modules I'm told I need to in order to
> get drm up and running (agpgart, intel-agp, drm, i915), but I still get
> "unable to open display" when I try to run glxinfo. The card itself is
> PCI, if that makes any kind of difference. I'm probably having an idiot
> moment (it *is* just now coming up on 6:00 in the morning over here), so
> I'm entirely open to the possibility I'm going entirely the wrong
> direction with this. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. It
> should be noted that, per an article on the gentoo wiki archive (the
> only one about intel GMA cards I could find), I've compiled both AGP
> support as well as DRM into the kernel, the former as a module
> (currently loaded, along with everything else mentioned above), in spite
> of the fact the card itself is PCI. If you need any further info, I'll
> be more than happy to provide it. Thank you in advance for anything you
> can tell me.




 Try kernel 2.6.28 if you are using a later one.

RE: [gentoo-user] Stuck on enabling drm for xorg-server.

[James Homuth]

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Hannan [mailto:gjhannan@yahoo.com] 
Sent: June 26, 2009 4:16 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on enabling drm for xorg-server.

James Homuth wrote:
> I'm running Gentoo on a 5-year-old Presario 2200 series with onboard 
> intel graphics card. I've managed to get everything working on it so 
> far, with the exception of xorg+dri. I *think* I've compiled 
> everything into the kernel that needs to be for intel's GMA graphics 
> cards (I have an 852/855 card, if that helps you any). For testing 
> purposes, I reboot the system, and modprobe all the modules I'm told I 
> need to in order to get drm up and running (agpgart, intel-agp, drm, 
> i915), but I still get "unable to open display" when I try to run 
> glxinfo. The card itself is PCI, if that makes any kind of difference. 
> I'm probably having an idiot moment (it *is* just now coming up on 
> 6:00 in the morning over here), so I'm entirely open to the 
> possibility I'm going entirely the wrong direction with this. Any 
> pointers would be greatly appreciated. It should be noted that, per an 
> article on the gentoo wiki archive (the only one about intel GMA cards 
> I could find), I've compiled both AGP support as well as DRM into the 
> kernel, the former as a module (currently loaded, along with 
> everything else mentioned above), in spite of the fact the card itself 
> is PCI. If you need any further info, I'll be more than happy to 
> provide it. Thank you in advance for anything you can tell me.




 Try kernel 2.6.28 if you are using a later one.

I tried 2.6.28 initially with same problem. I thought upgrading might fix
it.