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From: Jure Varlec <exzombie@exzombie.homeip.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Major problem with Xorg 7+
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:46:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609201746.04698.exzombie@exzombie.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4511171E.6050604@comcast.net>

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On Wednesday 20 September 2006 12:25, Chris Walters wrote:
> It works with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8, which is now hard masked.  Under
> xorg-x11-7.0-r1 it will not work, no matter what I've tried.  I tried
> the proprietary ATI driver, the Radeon driver and even the VESA driver.
>  The proprietary driver will not load during the boot process, and with
> the other drivers, even when I tell it what modes to use, I get an error
> that says there's not enough memory for the selected mode.  The final
> error goes something like, "Screens found but none have a usable
> configuration."  I have tried the Xorg configuration utilities, but they
> haven't produced any better results.

Chris,
Have you tried putting 'VideoRam 131072' in your xorg.conf under 
Section "Device"? The error saying there's not enough memory makes me think 
it fails to detect the correct amount of it. You can look 
at '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' to see if this is true.

Regards,
Jure

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-20 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-20 10:25 [gentoo-user] Major problem with Xorg 7+ Chris Walters
2006-09-20 15:46 ` Jure Varlec [this message]
2006-09-20 16:39 ` Richard Fish

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