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

[Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net>]

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James Homuth schrieb:
> 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.

Is your user in the video group?

P.S.: There is such a thing we use here. It's called paragraph and helps
reading longer mails a lot. ;)


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