Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 -> 2.6 wierdness

[Martins Steinbergs <mar@ml.lv>]

these are my autoload modules, commented are ones that some HOWTO pointed to 
but never worked. 

/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
agpgart
#via-agp
#ati-agp
fglrx
#radeon
rtc
snd-via82xx
r8169
#drm
amd64-agp


On Wednesday 06 July 2005 12:55, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Jerry McBride schreef:
> > On Tuesday 05 July 2005 06:00 pm, creighto@spunge.org wrote:
> >>Trying to  Migrate to 2.6.  But when I reboot into my new genkerneled
> >>system, I cannot use X.org anymore, it complains about agpgart not
> >>working.  Even If I modprobe the kernel mod or even compile it in
> >> directly it rejects it.
> >>Any Ideas on how to proceed?
> >>
> >>Creighton
> >
> > Without seeing the xorg logfile from /var/logs... I'd say you ahve to
> > re-emerge xorg or at the least run revdep-rebuild -p to see whta has to
> > get upgraded also.
>
> I question whether that would work, without knowing what hardware
> (motherboard, videocard) is involved, especially when I hear the word
> 'genkernel'.
>
> To me, errors in agpgart first suggest that either support for your
> motherboard's agp chipset is not compiled into the kernel, or --if
> compiled as a module, is not loaded; and secondly, the outside chance
> that-- if using an ATI card-- the InternalAGPGART setting is wrong; set
> to YES when it should be set to NO because you have to use your
> motherboard's kernel module (but this does not usually result in X.org
> not starting, just complaints in the logs), or set to NO when it should
> be set to YES because you don't use your motherboard's kernel support,
> so no agpgart is being loaded at all (which I would imagine would
> prevent X from starting).
>
> What does dmesg or /var/log/messages say about agpgart? Did it try to
> load and fail? What does lsmod say is loaded? If nothing, can you
> modprobe your agpgart module? What is your mobo and video card? If an
> ATI or nVidia video card, did you re-emerge the drivers after compiling
> the kernel?
>
> Basically, I'd just like to confirm that genkernel didn't drop the ball.
>
> Holly
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