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

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

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....