Bug 104216 – ati-drivers-8.16.20 fails to properly run depmod for certain kernels

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description t35t0r 2005-08-29 19:47:27 UTC]

Recently for the 2.6.12.5 and 2.6.13 kernels ati-drivers-8.16.20 has failed to
properly run depmod so that fglrx is visible to modprobe. After emerging 8.16.20
attempting to modprobe the driver will complain about the missing module.
Re-emerging ati-drivers does not help.

A quick fix (non-trivial for new users) is to simply add the following line to
the file /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep :

/lib/modules/2.6.13/video/fglrx.ko:
/lib/modules/2.6.13/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.ko

replace the kernel version number with your version.

[Comment 1 Lasse Bigum 2005-09-25 07:32:18 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Recently for the 2.6.12.5 and 2.6.13 kernels ati-drivers-8.16.20 has failed to
> properly run depmod so that fglrx is visible to modprobe. After emerging 8.16.
20
> attempting to modprobe the driver will complain about the missing module.
> Re-emerging ati-drivers does not help.
> 
> A quick fix (non-trivial for new users) is to simply add the following line to
> the file /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep :
> 
> /lib/modules/2.6.13/video/fglrx.ko:
> /lib/modules/2.6.13/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.ko
> 
> replace the kernel version number with your version.

Can confirm the problem, and the fix quoted does indeed work.
Thanks a bunch!

[Comment 2 Luca Barbato 2005-09-25 10:51:35 UTC]

update-modules should do that for you and is called inside the ebuild...

[Comment 3 Luca Barbato 2005-09-27 09:55:57 UTC]

Now should be fixed.