Re: [gentoo-user] lsmod and startx don't agree

["Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>]

On Monday 09 October 2006 05:56, maxim wexler wrote:
> Hello group,
>
> I don't remember the exact details but I noticed that
> any attempt to upgrade x11 revealed that everything
> under xorg-x11 was blocked. So I did emerge -C
> xorg-x11 then emerge xorg-x11. So far so good. I ran
> xorgconfig and passed it the same values as before
> since the hardware hasn't changed. Now when I run
> startx it gives:
>
> <...>
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Oct  8
> 21:34:33 2006
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
>
> (EE) Failed to load module "radeon" (module does not
> exist, 0)
> (EE) No drivers available.
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on
> X server ":0.0"
>       after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0
> events remaining.
> heathen@localhost ~ $
>
> not true:
>
> heathen@localhost ~ $ lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> radeon                105216  0
> drm                    68884  1 radeon
> agpgart                33904  1 drm
> <...>
>
> The modules are there under
> ../kernel/drivers/char/drm/ just as always.
>
> So I'm stumped.
>

I don't have an ATI card, but I am pretty sure, that X complains about the 
missing radeon driver, not the missing kernel module

X driver module =/= kernel module

you need both.
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