cant start X with today's kernel

Gary Jennejohn gary.jennejohn at freenet.de
Mon Oct 22 01:16:03 PDT 2007


On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:14:23 +0200
Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn at freenet.de> wrote:

> I can't start X with a kernel made today. The server complains that the video card
> is on ISA (it's really on AGP) and that it can't find any screens. Here the last
> few lines from /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
> 
> (II) ATI: ATI driver wrapper (version 6.7.195) for chipsets: mach64, rage128, radeon
> (II) Primary Device is: ISA
> (EE) No devices detected.
> 
> I know there's an entry in /usr/src/UPDATING (20070930), and I did a fresh install
> of xorg-7.3 today and X still won't start. Trying to force X to use PCI with BusID
> in xorg.conf also doesn't help.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this? At the moment I'm using an old kernel from Sept 27.
> 

Never mind. I got hit with a clue-bat and realized that I hadn't installed
world (because of the DLT_* problem) so the X server couldn't pick up the
new sys/pciio.h.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn


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