From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:47:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910231747.44662.wonko@wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hbsicd$pi6$1@ger.gmane.org>
Nikos Chantziaras writes:
> On 10/23/2009 03:15 PM, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > I did not try ati-drivers. Her card is a RV505 (Radeon X1550 Series)
> > which is no longer supported by current ati-drivers. Older drivers
> > might still work for a while, but only with kernels< 2.6.29. And I
> > suspect the problem is not the driver itself, because radeon does not
> > work, too, and I also had similar problems of a blank screen with an
> > ATI card and different drivers.
>
> For the radeon X driver (which *is* the best choice for the X1000
> series) make sure you also have radeon in-kernel support enabled.
It is enabled, and according do dmesg, it is running fine:
[ 387.433698] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 387.535673] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.30.0 20080528 for 0000:02:00.0 on
minor 0
But that's only for GLX, right? So even if it weren't enabled, I should see
something, I guess.
Wonko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-23 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-23 12:15 [gentoo-user] ATI X trouble, again Alex Schuster
2009-10-23 13:46 ` Mark Knecht
2009-10-23 14:09 ` Alex Schuster
2009-10-23 14:20 ` Mark Knecht
2009-10-23 13:59 ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-10-23 15:33 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-10-23 15:47 ` Alex Schuster [this message]
2009-10-23 16:12 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-10-23 19:45 ` Alex Schuster
2009-10-23 16:17 ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-10-23 21:05 ` Alex Schuster
2009-10-23 22:12 ` Mark Knecht
2009-10-24 6:26 ` Alex Schuster
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