From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MKHud-0004Xo-B4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:20:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C4BDE056C; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:20:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from randymail-a2.g.dreamhost.com (caiajhbdccac.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.202]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 211F0E056C for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:20:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from quan (unknown [76.10.130.2]) by randymail-a2.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B247EE2F1 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:20:41 -0700 (PDT) From: "James Homuth" To: References: <4A452C6E.8020600@yahoo.com> Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Stuck on enabling drm for xorg-server. Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:20:17 -0400 Message-ID: <096101c9f69b$865b1650$6400a8c0@quan> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <4A452C6E.8020600@yahoo.com> Thread-Index: Acn2mwKOdkFDzIjiS92GFMgkpQqNMgAAGsGA X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Archives-Salt: 50628a14-ee39-4a9e-96b1-1b4ac0dde4e5 X-Archives-Hash: a996f7fc0f063485d733543761069b8f -----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.