Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550

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

James wrote:

> Hello Sean,
> 
> I did get my ATI 1900 to work, but, only after quit a lot of pain....
Still in pain here. Never had so many problems with a card before.
> 
> 1. unmask the lastest ATI drivers ( as the ATI web 
> sites says there
> are lots of bug fixes in 8.32.5) and install it. It 
> was the only version
> that worked on my ati 1900 card.
> 

I emerged the latest drivers you specified above and unlike the stable 
drivers, these actually compiled.

The xorg configure keeps crashing, but I played around with my earlier 
xorg config.

Here is a real odd one. Having specified the radeon driver, started 
xorg, and it fails stating cannot find the radeon driver.

Did a slocate for radeon_drv and it located it in the proper xorg 
location for the drivers. Tried xorg again, it failed the same way.
Went to the driver location, and the radeon driver is not present. Tried 
an slocate again, it states that the radeon driver is where it should be.
At a loss for this one.

Right now to simplify things removing SMP from the kernel, saw a lot of 
remarks stating SMP often on early versions of the driver caused problems.

Has anyone tried the driver install script right from ati instead of 
portage?

I am just about ready to go get an nvidia card.

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