Hi holly, uwe
 Thanx for ur replies ... I was actually trying to install my sound driver
when emerge automatically downloaded the newer version of kernel i.e
2.6.12-r10 telling me it has a better support for sound cards.. After the
newer version was downloaded in /usr/src/ , i did "make menuconfig" to
configure the kernel and save the .config file. Then "make && make
modules_install" to compile the kernel.
 After that i compiled the kernel and copied it to the /boot directory. But
forgot to update the grub.conf file ... When rebooted the system i tried to
start the X server but it always shows the same message till now..I thought
there maybe some problem with the newer version. Then i realize i havent
updated the grub.conf file and this was my older version being loaded so* *i
make the link "linux" point towards older version.
 When i do a uname -a it shows me the older version i.e 2.6.12-r6 of the
kernel . Before that my Xserver was working fine. Does updating to new
kernel effect the configuration file of Xserver. I have attached my
Xserver's Log file. When i execute /etc/X11/X it a gui window does appear
with a mouse pointer but nothing happens after that. When i go back to the
terminal i see the same message being displayed
 Using vt 7

Symbol __glXgetActiveScreen from module /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a
is unresolved!
 Symbol __glXgetActiveScreen from module
/usr/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!

What should i do now ??
  Thanx and Regards
  Rajat
    n 9/27/05, Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl> wrote:
>
> 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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