On Wednesday 13 Jul 2011 08:13:27 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 07/10/2011 02:21 AM, Grant wrote:
> > When I was using an Nvidia video card, I noticed a strange sort of
> > fuzzy edge effect if I used nvidia-drivers.  xf86-video-nouveau didn't
> > have the same problem.  Now I've switched to an ATI video card and
> > unfortunately I have the same problem with xf86-video-ati.  I tried to
> > enable the new modesetting radeon driver in the kernel to see if that
> > would help but it doesn't work with my HD4250 card yet.
> 
> It should work.  But you need firmware that is not included in the
> kernel.  You need to install the x11-drivers/radeon-ucode package, and
> then build a kernel that includes the appropriate firmware.  Which
> firmware file (one of the *.bin files in /lib/firmware/radeon) is needed
> should be printed during boot; at the moment the kernel hangs, it should
> print which firmware file it was trying to load.
> 
> On my HD4870, I configured it like so:
> 
> In "Device Drivers -> Generic Driver Options", I've set:
> 
> (radeon/R700_rlc.bin) External firmware blobs to build into the kernel
> binary
> (/lib/firmware) Firmware blobs root directory
> 
> Then rebuild and install the kernel.  Before you reboot, make sure you
> have built media-libs/mesa with the "gallium" USE flag set, and do an
> "eselect mesa set r600 gallium".  Make sure you don't have disabled KMS
> in the kernel command line or module options ("radeon.modeset=0"
> disables KMS).  After you reboot, you should have KMS + Gallium3D working.

I think the OP's card needs R600_rcl.bin as I've suggested in a previous 
message.

Is the gallium stable now?  I found it was locking up a kde desktop with 
effects enabled and set it back to classic.
-- 
Regards,
Mick