Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550

[sean <tech.junk@verizon.net>]

Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Sean wrote:
>> I picked up one of these cards today. Normally I prefer nvidia based 
>> but I let price make my choice right now.
>>
>> Anyway, have had nothing but problems trying to get this thing working.
>> Found many bugs listed against the ati-drivers, and not having much 
>> more success using the open source drivers also listed in the Gentoo 
>> ATI faq.
>>
> 
> Did you try the Xorg "radeon" driver? (think its part of 
> xf86-video-ati). You want to unmerge ati-drivers if they have proved 
> unstable (no surprise there...)
> 
> I'm very interested as I've been using a 9550 with HW accel enabled + 
> Xorg (6.9) with the radeon driver in FreeBSD 6 without any problems at 
> all. This encourages me to think they should work in Gentoo as 
> well...(crosses fingers) as I'm in the process of building my mother a 
> machine running Gentoo and have one of these (a 9200) lying around and 
> am intending to use it....
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 

I tried the xf86-video-ati driver as you suggested. Xorg just starts up, 
is blank or black for a few moments then just ends. Cannot find out a 
reason why at this point.

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