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 1H6EMO-00050w-VN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:01:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0EMxwhP006007; Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:59:58 GMT Received: from smtp5.clear.net.nz (smtp5.clear.net.nz [203.97.33.68]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0EMrXmI005765 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:53:34 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.11] (121-72-69-28.dsl.telstraclear.net [121.72.69.28]) by smtp5.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0JBV000C8RL8G430@smtp5.clear.net.nz> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:53:32 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:53:31 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550 In-reply-to: <45A6C9AD.9030204@paradise.net.nz> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <45AAB46B.9040709@paradise.net.nz> 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> <45A64516.6050502@verizon.net> <45A6C9AD.9030204@paradise.net.nz> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061227) X-Archives-Salt: a1154449-9e9a-4665-af17-666588f38e33 X-Archives-Hash: f9eb63087216ee641855f90eb9156001 Mark Kirkwood wrote: > # echo "INPUT_DEVICES=\"keyboard mouse\"" >> /etc/make.conf > # echo "VIDEO_CARDS=\"radeon vesa\"" >> /etc/make.conf > # VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" emerge x11-drm > # emerge xorg-x11 > # env-update > # source /etc/profile > # Xorg -configure # fails mouse detect > # sed 's/\/dev\/mouse/\/dev\/input\/mice/' xorg.conf.new > xorg.conf.newer > # Xorg -config `pwd`/xorg.conf.newer > # cp xorg.conf.newer /etc/X11/xorg.conf # only if prev works! > > Note that Xorg -configure seems to fail to detect the mouse device, but > gives an otherwise good file. > Purely for completeness (since Sean is switched to a Nvidea card now)... Xorg -configure does not enable non-root users to have DRI enabled, so I needed to append to xorg.conf: Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection Best wishes Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list