Johannes my friend.. and all list.. If I live near to you I will go to your pc and try personaly but It's not possible, so please we try later, when fell good try, no matter how many time take this, really. I think the most imortant thing is try sometimes. But we do a better work, and this is the main idea of the list. Believe me a lot of people here can help you and I am so sure they will do. Thanks for let us help you :D.. Message to all list : We have a work to do: Help people!. The wrold need person like us, people help people to be better. Smile and have a nice very nice day. On 5/15/07, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: > > Hi everybody > > Tried and failed... again! > > Everything installs nicely... but 'ati-config --initial' won't work > without > a valid 'xorg.conf' file as input. > > The one that it do generates when I give it the one that works with the > opensource driver > don't allow me to run startx. It claims it can't find a monitor and the > graphic card driver. > > I read on Slashdot that AMD plans to deliver future ati drivers as > opensource. Let's hope that makes thinks easy for everybody. I want bother > anymore with this graphic card. The opensource driver works decently, and > I > will start to look in to other things that are annoying me; like why I > can't > emerge vlc and why I can't get rhythmbox to play mp3. > > PS > > To Francisco... > > Sorry for bailing out... It has been a big boost to my moral when trying > to > solve this problem, having enthusiastic and dedicated people like yourself > guiding and helping me. I will strive to be just as dedicated when my > experience reaches a level where I can be of help for this list. > > Regards > Johannes Skov Frandsen > > -----Original Message----- > From: Aleksandar L. Dimitrov [mailto:aleks_d@gmx.de] > Sent: 12. maj 2007 21:26 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X > > On Sat, 12 May 2007 11:34:39 -0400 > "Francisco Rivas" wrote: > > > Hi friends, Johannes bro.. I can't give up with that, I know we can > > solve your problem, I feel it :D > > > > Watch out, or you'll end up as a case for the Scary Devil Monastery. > I've probably already reached this point. :) > > > The most important thing is try, one more try and it's enough.. > > > > Uninstall the xserver, unistall the ati drivers > > check all configurations of your kernel.. > > Install xserver 7.1 and 8.36.5 ati driver manually.. run aticonfig > > --initial > > > > The Xorg-Server version 1.3 is still in the testing branch, so you > might do better with the following command: > > VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx" emerge -va =x11-base/xorg-server-1.2.0-r3 > > Then follow the already given instructions, i.e. install the version of > the driver ATI recommends > > emerge -C ati-drivers && emerge -va =x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.28.8 > > and then remove your xorg.conf. Not remove of course, but just rename > it to a backup file. Then go on with ati-config --initial. It could > mourn about a missing X.conf, but I think it should really make one up, > no matter if there's already one or not. Running ati-config --initial > on any unclean xorg.conf could really make a mess out of it anyways > (multiple Server/Device/Monitor entries... that can be quite a nuisance > to get rid of!). > > If you need any OpenGL-stuff (quite a chance you do...) this can be > discussed later on. Let's first get it to work at all :) > > Regards, Aleks > > PS: that's like the standard ritual for being accepted as someone > familiar with the basics of Linux: going to xorg.conf hell... once you > get used to it, it's easy. If you experience any trouble you could as > well just post it here, so we can have a look at it. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Francisco Rivas Linux User (New) : #448324 Linux Machine (New) : 355187