With sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.9-r2, X starts without direct rendering the first time at boot when xdm is in default runlevel. The modules seem to load fine (in boot runlevel already). Taking xdm out of the boot sequence and starting it from the shell (both /etc/init.d/xdm start and startx) works fine, all required modules are present. When starting xdm via bootup, all modules are in either, but no direct rendering. Killing the x-server once also helps. I autoload i915 and video. intel_agp, agpgart, drm get properly tied in. Bug 177869 sounds somewhat similar to this one, but there's plenty time between autoloading modules and the switch to default runlevel. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot with xdm in runlevel default. 2. 3. Actual Results: X starts without drm. Expected Results: X should start with drm Portage 2.1.2.2 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r2, 2.6.21.1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.21.1 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1300MHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 16 May 2007 12:20:02 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r5 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3m -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3m -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/src/packages" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.intergenia.de http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/layman/pro-audio" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cddb cdr cli cracklib crypt cups directfb dri dvd dvdr dvdread emacs emboss encode evo expat fam fbcon fftw firefox flac fortran gif gpm gstreamer gtk iconv imlib ipv6 isdnlog jack java jpeg lapack libg++ mad midi mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline real reflection sdl session spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts v4l vorbis win32codecs wmf x264 x86 xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Fixed the xinit package, but not bumped it.