>It seems that the "savage_dri.so" file was not in the
>expected path after "depmod -a" was executed, so it
>couldn't be loaded.
The "depmod" command has nothing to do with the "Xorg" driver module "savage_dri.so". It only ensures that new kernel modules "drm.ko" and "savage.ko" do get used instead of the old ones after moving them to the modules directory.
>It seems that the "savage_dri.so" file was not in the
>expected path after "depmod -a" was executed, so it
>couldn't be loaded.
The "depmod" command has nothing to do with the "Xorg" driver module "savage_dri.so". It only ensures that new kernel modules "drm.ko" and "savage.ko" do get used instead of the old ones after moving them to the modules directory.