On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:49 PM, William Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have all the output online here:
> http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~wtracy/1420/

Thanks.

> The full output from running lspci under Ubuntu is here:
> http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~wtracy/1420/lspci.ubuntu

It's a little short on info. Can you post `lspci -v'? You can just
strip out the VGA device. However, it does say "Mobile Integrated
Graphics". Since you said this is a 965, I'm guessing this is a 965GM.
Is this a laptop? Which one? (sorry if you already answered that)

> and the Xorg log from after the driver update is here:
> http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~wtracy/1420/Xorg.0.log.lfs.2

If you look at the end of the log, you'll see that 965GM is not
listed. Most likely you'll need xf86-video-intel-2.x.x. Like I said
earlier, I _think_ you can build that against the old xorg-server in
Xorg-7.2.

> My honest best guess right now is that the Xorg driver doesn't like my
> kernel, at 2.6.22.5, unpatched.

Not in this case. The xorg server and drivers are basically like their
own kernel in userspace. In this case, the driver just doesn't know
how to support your hardware. The kernel drm modules only come into
play when you start using GLX/DRI, which mostly comes into play for 3D
through Mesa's libGL or through AIGLX. But you're not getting that
far. Work is being done in Xorg now to have more of the driver work
offloaded to the kernel drm drivers, but that's not the case with your
server.

I highly, highly suspect that updating to xf86-video-intel-2.x.x will
at least get your video up. Whether there will be other problems after
that, that's another matter.

BTW, the FB drivers in the kernel have no effect on X. Except that
sometimes they interfere with the X drivers and cause problems. If you
don't need a framebuffer driver for your video card and can deal with
just versafb, don't even build the other FB drivers. They'll be
autoloaded if they exist at boot.

> Random thought--I've been building Xorg under Ubuntu in a chroot. (I
> like having Ubuntu up and being able to work on other things while I
> wait for stuff to build.) Is there a chance that Xorg is doing some by
> magic by detecting the kernel version at build time, and is unhappy
> about running under a different kernel when I boot into LFS?

No. Not until you actually run X does it interact with the system. The
build is completely contained to the other components in the chroot.

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Dan
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