[gentoo-user] Major problem with Xorg 7+

[gentoo-user] Major problem with Xorg 7+

[Chris Walters]

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Hi Everyone,

I am new to this list, but not to Gentoo - I've been using it for months
now.

I will give a brief description of my problem (unfortunately I no longer
have the pertinent logs)

My machine:  HP Pavilion with an Athlon 1 Ghz processor, 512 MB of RAM,
an AGP slot, and a Cable/Ethernet connection to the Internet.

My Video card:  ATI Radeon 9550SE (relatively new), 128 MB DDR, AGP up
to 8X, and so on.  Hardware probed identify it as a Radeon 9600.

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.

I would note that I had this problem with Debian, as well.  Any
suggestions would be appreciated.

Regards,
Chris Walters
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Re: [gentoo-user] Major problem with Xorg 7+

[Jure Varlec]

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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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Re: [gentoo-user] Major problem with Xorg 7+

[Richard Fish]

On 9/20/06, Chris Walters <cjw2004d@comcast.net> wrote:
> I will give a brief description of my problem (unfortunately I no longer
> have the pertinent logs)

We really need to see /var/log/Xorg.0.log to have any good ideas here.
 That log will contain a lot of output from the drivers about what it
found, how it's configured, etc.

-Richard
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