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[217.169.3.230]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id jo6sm9108040wjb.48.2016.03.05.09.49.15 for (version=TLS1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 05 Mar 2016 09:49:15 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Need some help with switching KDE setup from i915 to radeon graphics Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2016 17:49:06 +0000 Message-ID: <12249774.kQtsThxOEI@dell_xps> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.8 (Linux/4.1.15-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.14.8; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20160304231023.GB8419@asp.fritz.box> References: <20160304231023.GB8419@asp.fritz.box> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart11213626.XzB1XaFdTl"; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 4b81796e-cadd-4d53-9296-76f6d64f933a X-Archives-Hash: 1b537b9151a3612ced858ce8b28a92b2 --nextPart11213626.XzB1XaFdTl Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On Saturday 05 Mar 2016 00:10:23 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Hello Fellows, >=20 > My PC had been running on Intel graphics for 1=BD years. Finally, I g= ot myself > an AMD R7 370 today and installed it (together with a second set of 1= 6 Gigs > of RAM ^^). >=20 > I could use some help getting it working properly. Here is what I did= : > yesterday I enabled VIDEO_CARDS=3Dradeon in make.conf and rebuilt wor= ld with > --changed-use. I also reconfigured the kernel to build the Intel driv= er as > a module and to include the radeon module. I believe you need VIDEO_CARDS=3D"radeon radeonsi". Did you read this = page? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon > After installing the card, at first I only had a black screen and fou= nd out > (thanks to #gentoo) that I needed a firmware blob. Once that was inst= alled, > I had a KMS-enabled VT on my AMD-connected monitor. Yay. >=20 > Now I'm stuck with a malfunctioning X (or more specifically, KDE, as = it > seems). I can run AwesomeWM just fine. But when I try to start KDE, I= see > the first of those fading-in progress icons and then the screen goes = black. >=20 > I created a test account to have a clean setup of KDE. This starts KD= E > partially, only up to a desktop with an empty panel. There is no mous= e > cursor to move around and no reaction to shortcuts such as Alt+F2. >=20 > What else could I have missed in my migration from Intel to AMD? esel= ect > opengl only shows the xorg-x11 option. I had to comment out a modelin= e which > I set manually in xorg.conf. >=20 > See attached: > - /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/gfx.conf > - /var/log/Xorg.0.log from running startx with .xinitrc containing st= artkde. > You can see those three blocks of modelines at the end. At around or = just > before this point the screen goes dark. >=20 > Can anyone give me a nudge. Or maybe I should as in a KDE list. Have you tried booting without a xorg.conf.d/gfx.conf file to see if it= picks=20 up the radeon drivers? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart11213626.XzB1XaFdTl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAABCAAGBQJW2xwaAAoJELAdA+zwE4YekwMIAJ4SzTnrmCHRrryIdv+WtsX/ Ko0zTN+QSrguhz8Tl2MA/c7kU4/IBcy8cZNXWfWX+LS8DsaaX3NVgBLvuMVFlDU4 x64W5uGJbhyJXGlvPndf4d0PS3FdmAFdKt4z/MDAEIgDFPN5DMhbkVaHwuuaaxqR Pw4bYsUu3E1hQgJzfEMD4lGrMQkrZPr7eH+xLtx7v2cPtXerVF+s45cFKZHmI74i a749F8ca7olZs3eBVfyeJnid5/JIAOUm/mcUANExEieVpsgGt0GCsW1UAu7e775v mbibiWd1rkKNoG6AViqVjF0CKW/JWjdNSdw5J3IOkun3NS1+0xaqoeVmOhT+unY= =S5XO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart11213626.XzB1XaFdTl--