From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73B40139891 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 2015 21:26:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E22F214212; Sun, 23 Aug 2015 21:25:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BF2E9141B2 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 2015 21:25:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTcm0-0007Zo-4T for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2015 23:25:52 +0200 Received: from 206.125.41.116 ([206.125.41.116]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 2015 23:25:52 +0200 Received: from w41ter by 206.125.41.116 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 2015 23:25:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off? Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 14:25:47 -0700 Message-ID: <20150823142547.4ba1657d@a6> References: <20150819191820.6aa6d015@a6> <20150822040841.1ffe9595@hal9000.localdomain> <20150822190812.1829f217@a6> <1440302017.2869.2.camel@gmail.com> 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.125.41.116 X-Archives-Salt: 69e9c595-7cca-4b4c-bbdd-30b99173183c X-Archives-Hash: 7adb2d75eaaa39a82ff7fad02b7b2d19 On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 05:53:37 +0200 bitlord wrote: > On Sat, 2015-08-22 at 19:08 -0700, walt wrote: > > I forgot about xf86-video-ati until you mentioned it, so I just > > emerged > > it and (I think) made all the changes needed to reconfigure Xorg to > > use > > it instead of fglrx. > > > > Maybe I'm just too tired right now to think straight, but the error > > messages I see in Xorg.log tell me that my video chip is not > > supported. > For radeon (free driver) you need to configure more than Xorg, check > wiki article about radeon driver [1], It needs in kernel support, also > most cards especially "newer" (>=r600) need proprietary firmware. > > > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon An excellent wiki page, thanks. It tells me that my video chip should be supported so I'll go back and follow all the steps this time. I'd like to avoid the proprietary ati driver if I can.