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 1N1MMv-0000y3-OG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:47:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DEB53E099A; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:47:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.askja.de (mail.askja.de [83.137.103.136]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B95A3E099A for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:47:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from static-87-79-89-40.netcologne.de ([87.79.89.40] helo=zone.wonkology.org) by mail.askja.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N1MMt-0003C2-AL for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:47:55 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by zone.wonkology.org with local; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:47:48 +0200 id 00011B91.4AE1D024.0000059C From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:47:44 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-tuxonice; KDE/4.3.2; i686; ; ) References: <200910231415.25058.wonko@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: 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 Message-Id: <200910231747.44662.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: e2bf44e3-310c-4065-a696-970607290318 X-Archives-Hash: 05c4de9236f13e4169bdaec67c6182af 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