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 1P5zTQ-0007JQ-8B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:26:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CEFFE08D6; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:25:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E843FE08D6 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:25:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.localnet (p4FF054ED.dip.t-dialin.net [79.240.84.237]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 48AD24A800E for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:25:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to configure Radeon card Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:25:01 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-tuxonice-r3; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <1286926877.8946.11.camel@laptop.limeyworld> In-Reply-To: <1286926877.8946.11.camel@laptop.limeyworld> 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-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010131325.02603.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: c7338e3c-bfdc-4df2-8688-19a57c9e4846 X-Archives-Hash: 9d1902fcd335cd7f4ea4a069c2a5e810 Jeff Cranmer writes: > I have a Sapphire Radeon HD5750 graphics card installed on my Gentoo > box, and I'm having some difficulty configuring it. > > When I run fglrxinfo, I get the OpenGL messages for a basic Mesa > driver. Same here, with OpenGL working fine: wonko@weird ~ $ fglrxinfo IRQ's not enabled, falling back to busy waits: 2 0 display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R600 (RS780 9610) 20090101 TCL OpenGL version string: 2.0 Mesa 7.8.2 For more information, use glxinfo, not fglrxinfo, which is from the ati- drivers package: wonko@weird ~ $ glxinfo name of display: :0.0 IRQ's not enabled, falling back to busy waits: 2 0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions: [...] But it seems you direct rendering is disabled. Is the drm module loaded? That is, does 'lsmod | grep drm' show it? If not, try loading it with the modprobe command before starting X, and see if there's a difference (diff /var/log/Xort.0.log*). You yould also try the closed-source ati-drivers. Exchange the 'radeon' by 'fglrx' in the Device->Driver line for this, and run 'eselect opengl set ati'. Also make sure the fglrx kernel module is loaded, and the drm module is unloaded (and vice versa). You need to havwe 'fglrx' in your VIDEO_CARDS variable in make.conf (and 'radeon' for the open source driver). > I've attached the xorg.conf file, the Xorg.0.log file, and the results > of the lspci command. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I > tried auto-generating an xorg.conf file, but that would result in a > totally blank screen. I had blank screens, too, but it was only the mouse missing, which I only saw when I started a window manager, not only X itself. Wonko