From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M824u-0003yd-Du for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 May 2009 01:00:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07ABDE0146; Sun, 24 May 2009 01:00:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f165.google.com (mail-ew0-f165.google.com [209.85.219.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1188E0146 for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 01:00:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so2378963ewy.34 for ; Sat, 23 May 2009 18:00:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=UlmDCYTaBwxsqnrGuxQOLJkFaZ+hYLep8IaPzKUeJj8=; b=wUMaKWdN0POT0gVqBp3liHNFZvmR85+xhdKgIPnZCMfnIVi2IWreX8Q3bXqP1kyNL+ 4X4qicPGeImZwHP0ZuVccjppbG8Cyj440PxwwDjcAbg69Or20uadQd0EUQUXi8dVGpiw T5wCmSw3G9ATmifeCrRGHrHRrGZcCaKQbuA8Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=DHmcKE68wacxiX1/B3VlztWlMl153YnCe/IGIU+qfmZq9J2vkgc7kL4t+8jklLVUMu nd4xIiX4wX3z+7y2fG4BdwQ2tSzUrBq9dgO6zN1BRCpwhyeAhV6DmrwCmX/9TAZz5W5M VeCQuYUROpajSeIsOrRFSOFv0FiutpxOOF9Vo= Received: by 10.210.120.7 with SMTP id s7mr2890966ebc.51.1243126838065; Sat, 23 May 2009 18:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 18sm5714656ewy.21.2009.05.23.18.00.37 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 23 May 2009 18:00:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 03:00:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.29.3r4; KDE/4.2.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <9acccfe50905211746s2db29c38vbd3122256c43b116@mail.gmail.com> <20090523204915.71d5425e@osage.osagesoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <20090523204915.71d5425e@osage.osagesoftware.com> 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: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905240300.33724.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 0fbdc9d9-a0a4-4273-9d4e-afa0f43035d2 X-Archives-Hash: 054c2a587f78829b2b317246a2d082a5 On Sonntag 24 Mai 2009, David Relson wrote: > On Sun, 24 May 2009 01:22:06 +0300 > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > ...[snip]... > > > > ### Begin xorg.conf ### > > > > > > Section "ServerFlags" > > > Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" > > > EndSection > > > > > > Section "Files" > > > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/util" > > > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/encodings" > > > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc" > > > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts" > > > FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts" > > > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default" > > > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" > > > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi" > > > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi" > > > EndSection > > > > > > ### End xorg.conf ### > > > > This xorg.conf won't load ati-drivers at all. If it works, it is > > probably running with another driver (radeon or vesa perhaps). You > > need to run "aticonfig --initial" as root first. > > Really? My understanding had been that xorg-server-1.5.3 uses evdev and > runs happily without an xorg.conf file. Without an xorg.conf I had > keyboard and font problems -- cured by the above configuration. > > As an experiment, I ran the suggested command ( "aticonfig > --initial" ). This added a lot to xorg.con and I then restarted X. > My screen resolution dropped from 1280x1024 to 640x480 and the screen > looked awful. > > I've returned to the short config shown above. > > To be honest, I don't know which display driver is in use and don't > much care since the display is working fine AFAICT. > > David Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "Module" Load "evdev" Load "v4l" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "DontZap" "no" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "evdev" Option "CorePointer" Option "Name" "Logitech, Inc. MX610 Laser Cordless Mouse" Option "evBits" "+1-2" Option "keyBits" "~272-287" Option "relBits" "~0-2 ~6 ~8" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "evdev" Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "evdev" Option "XkbLayout" "de" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event2" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0" Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver" Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor" Option "DPMS" "true" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" Driver "fglrx" BusID "PCI:2:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection works fine, 1680x1050 is the natural resolution of my display - automatically chosen by X on start. Thanks to no modes or modelines I have a bazillion of possible resolutions via randr available (either setting them with krandrtray or xrandr).