On Donnerstag 25 Juni 2009, James Homuth wrote: > I'm running Gentoo on a 5-year-old Presario 2200 series with onboard intel > graphics card. I've managed to get everything working on it so far, with > the exception of xorg+dri. I *think* I've compiled everything into the > kernel that needs to be for intel's GMA graphics cards (I have an 852/855 > card, if that helps you any). For testing purposes, I reboot the system, > and modprobe all the modules I'm told I need to in order to get drm up and > running (agpgart, intel-agp, drm, i915), but I still get "unable to open > display" when I try to run glxinfo. The card itself is PCI, if that makes > any kind of difference. I'm probably having an idiot moment (it *is* just > now coming up on 6:00 in the morning over here), so I'm entirely open to > the possibility I'm going entirely the wrong direction with this. Any > pointers would be greatly appreciated. It should be noted that, per an > article on the gentoo wiki archive (the only one about intel GMA cards I > could find), I've compiled both AGP support as well as DRM into the kernel, > the former as a module (currently loaded, along with everything else > mentioned above), in spite of the fact the card itself is PCI. If you need > any further info, I'll be more than happy to provide it. Thank you in > advance for anything you can tell me.
try adding consolekit to the default runlevel....