problems with xorg on gentoo amd64

[Tassilo Horn]

Beso <givemesugarr at 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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