From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H50iC-00045C-A0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:15:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0BEEB5X007757; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:14:11 GMT Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net (vms040pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.40]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0BE9fc8002291 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:09:41 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.11] ([72.71.198.158]) by vms040.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JBP005JLJBQXIKC@vms040.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:09:27 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:09:26 -0500 From: sean Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550 In-reply-to: <45A46BEB.3030702@paradise.net.nz> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <45A64516.6050502@verizon.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <45A45BD6.1020905@verizon.net> <45A46BEB.3030702@paradise.net.nz> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061230) X-Archives-Salt: 9a872aa3-b6ec-4dfd-ab05-8bfe23167ef2 X-Archives-Hash: a8224e85b46eca46e9017450949ca334 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list