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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: problems with xorg on gentoo amd64
From:       Beso <givemesugarr () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-10-29 20:09:48
Message-ID: d257c3560810291309v1f6a3608ub6668b40cdc09d16 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2008/10/29 Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>:
> Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi!
>
>> i'm crossposting to both xorg and gentoo amd64 mailing list to have
>> more audience since the problem might be related to either gentoo or
>> xorg itself.
>>
>> on sunday i've updated hal on gentoo and after reboot xorg stopped
>> starting. the problem was that it cannot open the drm device.
>
> I had that problem, too.  I work around it by loading the driver module
> explicitly in /etc/conf.d/modules.
>
> ,----
> | # i915 is my graphics card (intel) driver
> | modules="i915"
> `----
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
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you were right. after manually loading drm and radeon driver before
xorg xorg starts. it really seems that there is something wrong
somewhere that prevents xorg to automatically load the required
modules.

-- 
dott. ing. beso
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