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 8207B13989A for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 01:28:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A428E0885; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 01:28:43 +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 C0977E087E for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 01:28:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUPW3-0007uv-HK for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 03:28:39 +0200 Received: from 206.125.41.106 ([206.125.41.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 03:28:39 +0200 Received: from w41ter by 206.125.41.106 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 03:28:39 +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: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:28:24 -0700 Message-ID: <20150825182824.1a4d8dea@a6> References: <20150819191820.6aa6d015@a6> <20150822040841.1ffe9595@hal9000.localdomain> <201508221108.28435.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20150825211028.40bce2ac@hal9000.localdomain> 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: 206.125.41.106 X-Archives-Salt: fd1a4c5c-d297-47ea-8bd9-c84727aed56a X-Archives-Hash: 3b0c75248d986b0448bbd8bf2fc685bd On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 21:10:28 +0200 wrote: Kernel driver in use: radeon Hi wabe. This whole radeon thing is so confusing I thought I'd mention one more very confusing detail that I had to fix before I got the open- source ati/radeon driver to work correctly: First I tried starting my X session with no xorg.conf file at all. That didn't work but of course I can't remember now what went wrong. (That was already more than 24 hours ago :) Then I generated an xorg.conf in the old way using 'Xorg -configure'. That file didn't work right either. Then I finally realized that the generated xorg.conf had, in the Section "Device" section, this line: Driver "radeon" But that's not what we want. To use the open-source ati driver I changed that line to read: Driver "ati" And that's when everything finally started to work perfectly. One more thing that confused me: the xf86-video-ati package doesn't install any kernel modules. It installs only these two files: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/ati_drv.so but to use those files you need that Driver "ati" line in xorg.conf.