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 1Qgz9d-0000fq-C5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:07:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 955B521C088 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:07:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EF9121C029 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:26:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf26 with SMTP id 26so5161902wwf.10 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 05:26:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=S5JKeFDlezcdEH7eVBwe4xtupvHztHaj/oMk39pVAOk=; b=eTJ77txwUMZ2W9W3JAWsR5fb6CWczujdq6ThH/N3krQ1T+F1sFllSDExPErP+rmxBg Xne7+Z/4mmcRLnbIgQrWXyBS9Wrv5p7gnTv7SfkKV7LMZ+yPXDP5LhTDy6CCxG9o8FPq WZWaCQkmYkZLk8iq9WMoK601cRZ8is3+FMth8= Received: by 10.216.60.203 with SMTP id u53mr4998337wec.96.1310559978133; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 05:26:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet ([213.123.142.221]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fe4sm11630845wbb.45.2011.07.13.05.26.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 13 Jul 2011 05:26:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with xf86-video-ati & nvidia-drivers Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:25:40 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2371523.NVK1okd5Jf"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201107131325.50891.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8c872369c33dda3e4a2bb3132e658c0f --nextPart2371523.NVK1okd5Jf Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > On my HD4870, I configured it like so: >=20 > In "Device Drivers -> Generic Driver Options", I've set: >=20 > (radeon/R700_rlc.bin) External firmware blobs to build into the kernel > binary > (/lib/firmware) Firmware blobs root directory >=20 > 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=3D0" > 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=20 message. Is the gallium stable now? I found it was locking up a kde desktop with=20 effects enabled and set it back to classic. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2371523.NVK1okd5Jf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk4djs4ACgkQVTDTR3kpaLb7PQCeOd7y0HHQlqUER8DbWZz5RoXS WuAAoKh8icIk4kI9PZ6N8KhmVjftl2Wm =2owq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2371523.NVK1okd5Jf--