From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Old ATI Radeon RV350 driver broken after system update
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:08:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201211272309.19599.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMZ=Z8Gxy_hVOky3Pk8fpwBXvdnJGtqQT2PEgj-fvq2=rM1f2A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 27 Nov 2012 17:18:43 design [depois das dez] wrote:
> Fellow Gentooers,
>
> although I am very happy running a Gentoo box, sometimes I bump into some
> difficulties, esp. when updating packages. This time I am having a hard
> time reconfiguring my video card, which was fine but is not anymore after
> the last system update I've made. Gnome session goes up as usual but the
> resolution is not fine and monitor complains about not being in the
> recommended mode.
>
> My video driver is an ATI Radeon 9600 (RV350) and somebody has already
> updated the section on the Gentoo wiki
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon#Kernels_.3E.3D3.0.0 informing that
> there might be incompatibilities concerning the RV350 firmware. I just
> don't have enough understanding of the video related parts of the system to
> tweak and fix this issue. How should I proceed when I have a problem of
> this sort?
>
> How do I know what is the video backend in my system? Is Xorg the only one
> possible? What can I do to fix this problem?
The link you provided says that you should disable framebuffer in your kernel
config. Have you tried that?
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Regards,
Mick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-27 23:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-27 17:18 [gentoo-user] Old ATI Radeon RV350 driver broken after system update design [depois das dez]
2012-11-27 23:08 ` Mick [this message]
2012-11-28 9:36 ` Jacques Montier
2012-11-28 18:29 ` design [depois das dez]
2012-11-30 9:01 ` Peter Weilbacher
2012-11-30 17:47 ` Mick
2012-12-04 9:42 ` Peter Weilbacher
2012-12-04 10:05 ` Jacques Montier
2012-12-04 18:52 ` Peter Weilbacher
2013-01-03 10:59 ` Peter Weilbacher
2013-01-03 12:59 ` Bruce Hill
2013-01-04 13:14 ` Peter Weilbacher
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