[gentoo-user] Major problem with Xorg 7+

[Chris Walters <cjw2004d@comcast.net>]

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Hi Everyone,

I am new to this list, but not to Gentoo - I've been using it for months
now.

I will give a brief description of my problem (unfortunately I no longer
have the pertinent logs)

My machine:  HP Pavilion with an Athlon 1 Ghz processor, 512 MB of RAM,
an AGP slot, and a Cable/Ethernet connection to the Internet.

My Video card:  ATI Radeon 9550SE (relatively new), 128 MB DDR, AGP up
to 8X, and so on.  Hardware probed identify it as a Radeon 9600.

It works with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8, which is now hard masked.  Under
xorg-x11-7.0-r1 it will not work, no matter what I've tried.  I tried
the proprietary ATI driver, the Radeon driver and even the VESA driver.
 The proprietary driver will not load during the boot process, and with
the other drivers, even when I tell it what modes to use, I get an error
that says there's not enough memory for the selected mode.  The final
error goes something like, "Screens found but none have a usable
configuration."  I have tried the Xorg configuration utilities, but they
haven't produced any better results.

I would note that I had this problem with Debian, as well.  Any
suggestions would be appreciated.

Regards,
Chris Walters
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