)This is different from the 2.6.19-rc2 error I reported. I have now reverted back. xorg was just updated to 7.1.1.) I rebuild the kernel 2.6.18 and installed it. I reemerged the ati-drivers (twice ;-) ). the radeon driver and the drm driver load flawlessly: lsmod Module Size Used by radeon 108832 0 drm 71464 1 radeon alas, X no longer starts up. I get an interesting error message now in the Xorg.0.log (well, the old version---I am writing this using the fbdev device---yuck!) (II) Module int10: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0 emerge --info Portage 2.1.1-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.18 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 01:00:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="POSIX" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi alsa amd64 apache atlas berkdb bitmap-fonts blas bzip2 bzlib cdr cli crypt cups curl dlloader dri dts dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode f77 fbcon foomaticdb fortran g77 gcj gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde kernel_linux lzw lzw-tiff mono mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin opengl pam pcre perl png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session smb spell spl ssl tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userland_GNU video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ati video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus video_cards_cyrix video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i810 video_cards_mga video_cards_neomagic video_cards_nv video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo xine xml xmms xorg xpm xprint xv xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Which driver and version is this about?
wrote a better bug report at 151659