Hi all friends, I really like this situations because we learn so much...I have to thank you to all for this experience...

Well we got a lot of work to do for help Johannes.

You fell confortable installing the ati-drivers manually?, if your aswer is Yes, then:

1.- Disable all support for ati in the kernel

2.- Enable the framebuffer console like http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash, because I know (for sure) you want a grubsplash and bootsplash :D :

3.- Unmerge all ati driver you have installed.

4.- Execute manually the installation and finally aticonfig --initial, and startx.

Note : I have :
X.org :
      X Window System Version 7.1.1
      Release Date: 12 May 2006
      X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1
      Build Operating System: UNKNOWN
      Current Operating System: Linux dta-desktop 2.6.21-gentoo #3 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 9 17:07:22 VET 2007 i686
      Build Date: 28 February 2007
          Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
       to make sure that you have the latest version.
      Module Loader present

Kernel :
      2.6.21-gentoo #3 SMP PREEMPT (but I has 2.6.20-r6,r7,r8) and it works too.

Ati Card : ATI Mobility Radeon X1300
      $fglrxinfo
         OpenGL vendor string : ATI Technologies Inc.
         OpenGL renderer string : ATI Mobility Radeon X1300
        OpenGL version string : 2.0.6458 (8.36.5)

If your answer is No. Try with #ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge ati-drivers, in my case is
* x11-apps/ati-drivers-extra
      Latest version available: 8.33.6
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 57,246 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.ati.com
      Description:   Ati precompiled drivers extra application
      License:       ATI GPL-2 QPL-1.0

* x11-drivers/ati-drivers
      Latest version available: 8.35.5
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 55,971 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.ati.com
      Description:   Ati precompiled drivers for recent chipsets
      License:       ATI GPL-2 QPL-1.0

Emerge the 8.35.5 and aticonfig --initial

I hope this help you...Please comment us your experience...

On 5/10/07, Aleksandar L. Dimitrov < aleks_d@gmx.de> wrote:

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 12:24 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote:
> Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 10:45 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote:
> >
> >> I should then  be using version 8.28.8 of the driver.
> >>
> >> I have tried coping both the 8.28.8 and the 8.36.5 to my dist folder and
> >> tried to run emerge:
> >>
> >> emerge -va ati-drivers
> >>
> >> but it only suggests the 8.32.5 version, which as previously mentioned,
> >> dos not work.
> >>
> >> Am I missing to parameters to emerge or?
> >>
> >
> > You should try
> > $ sudo emerge -va =x11-drivers/ati- drivers-8.32.5
> > Note that the precise path (before the slash) is mandatory, as is the
> > `=' sign. You don't have to copy the stuff into portage/distfiles, but
> > maybe your xorg-version could block the merge. Try downgrading then.
> >
> > But I'm not sure if this could help with your issues.
> >
> > Regards, Aleks
> >
> >
> Hi Aleks
>
> Sorry... I get the same error
>
> Joe
>
Hi Johannes,
Whoops, sorry, seems I got the version number wrong. Of course, just
substituting the desired version would help. On my system:

12:40:11 | 1 $ emerge -p =x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.28.8

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.28.8  USE="acpi opengl -doc"
[blocks B     ] x11-drivers/ati-drivers (is blocking
x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0)

This means it is not fine to install them with a newer x-server on my
arch (x86).

Regards, Aleks

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