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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Old ATI Radeon RV350 driver broken after system update
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:08:48 +0000
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On Tuesday 27 Nov 2012 17:18:43 design [depois das dez] wrote:
> Fellow Gentooers,
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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?
>=20
> 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 kern=
el=20
config. Have you tried that?
=2D-=20
Regards,
Mick
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