hi there.
I am having a problem in my Gentoo setup. The configuration went well, and I had gnome working already, with sound, ntfs support, and many things.
Then I installed the radeon drivers:
# emerge ati-drivers

and as I rebooted, the kernel fail to load some modules, and I get to gnome desktop without mouse or keyboard control, what just leaves me the option to reset. btw, it loads well into text mode (nox in grub command), and I tried many things already. recompiled the kernel, used genkernel to generate the kernel automatically, removed the xorg.conf, made a new basic xorg.conf, and nothing worked. anytime I run startx and get to gnome, the mouse stops, keyboard doesn't work, and I have to reset.

Do someone have a clue on what went wrong in the drivers installation that would do such a mess?

Proprietary ATI driver does not support all new kernel, revert to an older version (like 2.6.29).

Try to be as concise as you can when reporting. The "ati-drivers" package is not the "radeon" driver. "ati-drivers" supplies the "fglrx" driver, which is the proprietary (and closed) driver supplied by ati/amd.

The driver called "radeon" is supplied by the package named "xf86-video-ati", it's part of Xorg and is open source.

If X boots, then the graphics driver (fglrx or any other) is being loaded. Otherwise, you wouldn't even see the mouse pointer.

The keyboard and the mouse has nothing to do with your graphics driver. You probably have an InputDevices based xorg.conf file, but you are using a hal-enabled recent version of xorg, try this and if it works then we will fine tune it later if there's a need:

Then try to start X again, the mouse and the keyboard should work.

I have no idea, your references are way too vague. To tell you how to solve it we first need to know -at least- what modules are failing to load, and if possible, get the complete error messages.

ati-drivers 9.8 is out, is in Gentoo portage and it works with .30 kernels without a problem (well, other than the usual problems that ati has, which are lots). Besides that, 9.6 and 9.7 had been patches in portage to work with .29 and .30 kernels, for the most part. Though that wasn't supported upstream of course. But anyway, there's no upstream support even if you use a "supported" combo. ati don't even has a bug tracker...

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