i830 driver problem

arashb · n00b Joined: 14 Apr 2003 Posts: 31 Location: Iran

I am using an Intell Inspiro 2600 lap with a i830 graphic card. I installed the official X on it and it was working good, till I recompiled my kernel and added the devfs support and the X stoped working ( no screens found). I really have no idea what happened to it?!
When I compile agpgart as a module I just can not insert it because - the syslog says - bad major number perhaps - ( is there any module I should insert before uding agpgart?)
Also xf86cfg is not working because it wants to load all the vga drivers that I didn't compile in my kernel. How can I tell xf86cfg that not to load those modules?
Does anybosy know how shall I fix my X?

humpback · Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2003 9:29 pm Post subject:

You can try my config file http://www.felisberto.net/~humpback/XF86Config-4 . I have compiled the agpgart module and the i830 drm modules in kernel. If you are using the X 4.3 you will have o unpack the X source and build the drm module that comes with X because the one in the 2.4.20 kernel is outdated for tha X version.
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arashb · n00b Joined: 14 Apr 2003 Posts: 31 Location: Iran

I recompiled my kernel, removed devfs support and it fixed the problem. I don't know if these two are related to each other; or some other thing's happening meanwhile?

humpback · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2003 5:11 pm Post subject:

probably some other stuff. It is evene weired that gentoo does not conplain of no devfs. As far as i know Gentoo requires kernels with devfs.
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arashb · n00b Joined: 14 Apr 2003 Posts: 31 Location: Iran

Ofcourse gentoo complaines about the devfs!
Anyway I recompiled the kernel, added all the features and now it is working fine. Strange! I have exactly same .config for kernel befor and my X didn't come up.
Something I noticed is some times the make process of kernel has a weird behaviar. It says that compilation completed but it is not actually.
I got to boot from LiveCD and chroot and compile it. Only then I could trust my kernel