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Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 18:51:50 -0800
From: "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problems with kernel upgrade - Intel i810 won't start
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On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Andrey Falko <ma3oxuct@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>   It's been a long, long, long time since I've updated any kernels
>> but my wife's machine finally came up for review so I got started.
>> I've built and booted 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 but unfortunately I'm having
>> some trouble with the video driver. Note that this machine has run
>> Gentoo for a long time but last used a 2.6.20 kernel.
>>
>>   When starting gdm I get a text screen telling me the X server
>> failed and showing these messages in the Xorg log file:
>>
>> dragonfly ~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
>> Current Operating System: Linux dragonfly 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 #4 SMP
>> PREEMPT Fri Nov 7 16:23:23 PST 2008 i686
>>        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
>> (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
>> (EE) Failed to load module "i810" (module does not exist, 0)
>> (EE) No drivers available.
>> dragonfly ~ #
>>
>>
>>
>
> Did you do something like this?:
>
> emerge x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810
>
> or this:
>
> add VIDEO_CARDS="i810" to make.conf
> then emerge -DuavN xorg-x11
>

I do have the VIDEO_CARDS="i810" in make.conf but I haven't rebuilt
xorg-x11. Is that generally required when doing a kernel change these
days?

I'm pretty sure the driver I loaded was from the kernel, not from X11
so that could easily be the problem.

Let me work on it.

Thanks,
Mark