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 7E5A0139936 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 03:49:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D1ACE0867; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 03:48:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.web-xs.org (mail.web-xs.org [148.251.4.204]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 226DEE084C for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 03:48:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.web-xs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68DEE6EC2A93 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 05:48:50 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.web-xs.org Received: from mail.web-xs.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.web-xs.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WsMJsNsAFfBQ for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 05:48:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from server-1.localdomain (p54A702CB.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.167.2.203]) (Authenticated sender: lukas@der-erste-sinn.de) by mail.web-xs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B8C346EC2A83 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 05:48:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hal9000.localdomain (hal.localdomain [192.168.0.2]) by server-1.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 537B33F59F for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 05:48:48 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 05:47:24 +0200 From: To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off? Message-ID: <20150826054724.768f37ad@hal9000.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20150825182824.1a4d8dea@a6> References: <20150819191820.6aa6d015@a6> <20150822040841.1ffe9595@hal9000.localdomain> <201508221108.28435.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20150825211028.40bce2ac@hal9000.localdomain> <20150825182824.1a4d8dea@a6> 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-Archives-Salt: c488057b-4071-44fd-ba47-5236024aae9c X-Archives-Hash: 4ec239a0ed940a3de23cd571d2c58e2d walt wrote: > 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 :) It's good to know that I'm not the only one with a week memory. Every day I thank God for these little yellow post-it stickers. :-) > 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. That's strange. What kind of GPU do you have? With my R7 250E I must use "radeon" as driver in xorg.conf. IIRC I also used the same config for my old GPU (Radeon HD4550). > 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 That's ok. It's the same on my system. BTW: I don't use any kernel modules at all. > but to use those files you need that Driver "ati" line in xorg.conf. > Below you find my complete xorg.conf. Actually I don't know if my X would also work without the device section. What I remember is that I had trouble to get my keyboard working without the InputDevice section. But this is some years ago. Meanwhile I have a new keyboard and maybe I don't need a xorg.conf anymore. I will test this soon, if I don't forget it. :-) Section "InputDevice" Driver "kbd" Identifier "Keyboard[0]" Option "AutoRepeat" "500 2" Option "Protocol" "Standard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "de" Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "ATI-Card" Driver "radeon" EndSection -- Regards wabe