Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Xsetup

[Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl>]

Rajat Gujral schreef:
> hi
> 
> i am a newbie in gentoo and for the first time i tried to upgrade my 
> kernel from 2.6.12-r6 to 2.6.12-r10 , but the kernel was not upgraded
> .


When you say you tried to upgrade your kernel, what do you mean to say
that you did?

If you did something like

emerge -uav gentoo-sources

that doesn't 'upgrade your kernel', it downloads and extracts a newer
kernel to /usr/src, where you would then have to configure, compile, and
install it, either manually, or using genkernel. After which, you would
possibly need to edit your bootloader config files (grub.conf or
lilo.conf), to inform the bootloader that a new kernel was available.

If you didn't do any of these things, then you haven't upgraded your
kernel-- Gentoo is not a binary distro where you just download and
replace the previous kernel binary with a new one, as you would in
Mandrake or SuSE or Fedora Core.

> Now when i boot my system with the older kernel i am not able to 
> start KDE .. Whenever i write startx on the terminal i get the 
> message
> 
> Using vt 7
> 
> Symbol __glXgetActiveScreen from module 
> /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!


What video card do you have? If an ATI or nVidia card using the
proprietary drivers, you would need to re-emerge those drivers against
the new kernel when upgrading.

Are you sure you're booting to the older kernel? After booting, and
logging in, don't type startx, but instead

uname -a

What kernel does it report?

HTH,
Holly
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