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

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

[maxim wexler]

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.

-Maxim

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

[Hemmann, Volker Armin]

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

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Monday 09 October 2006 05:56, maxim wexler wrote:
> I don't remember the exact details but I noticed that
> any attempt to upgrade x11 revealed that everything
> under xorg-x11 was blocked.

At that point you were supposed to follow the migration to modular X guide 
[1]. The important bits you've missed is setting the VIDEO_CARDS and 
INPUT_DEVICES variables in /etc/make.conf.

[SNIP]
> (EE) Failed to load module "radeon" (module does not
> exist, 0)
> (EE) No drivers available.

That means /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so from 
x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati is missing. That will be pulled in by 
x11-base/xorg-x11 if VIDEO_CARDS includes radeon. So set those two variables 
and run:

# emerge -va1 --newuse x11-base/xorg-x11

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

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Monday 09 October 2006 06:54, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> At that point you were supposed to follow the migration to modular X guide
> [1].

Heh, forgot the reference..

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml

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

[maxim wexler]

--- Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@zlin.dk> wrote:

> On Monday 09 October 2006 06:54, Bo Ørsted Andresen
> wrote:
> > At that point you were supposed to follow the
> migration to modular X guide
> > [1].
> 
> Heh, forgot the reference..
> 
> [1]
>
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml

That was the answer. Interesting, I googled high and
low and never came across it.

One more thing -- in the Howto it says to 

#emerge -Ca xorg-x11 virtual/x11.

What's this "virtual/x11"? Portage said it couldn't
find it.

Thanks Bo. 

-Maxim

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

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 06:25, maxim wexler wrote:
> One more thing -- in the Howto it says to
>
> #emerge -Ca xorg-x11 virtual/x11.
>
> What's this "virtual/x11"? Portage said it couldn't
> find it.

It's a virtual package, which can be satisfied by any one of several X 
server ebuilds. It means that apps can depend on a virtual x11 package, 
rather than being tied to say Xorg specifically. Don't worry about it, 
if you typed the name right and portage didn't find it, it's not a 
problem and the right thin will happen when you emerge modular X

alan
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