Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5 - Thank you Gentoo devs

[Johannes Skov Frandsen <joe@omesc.com>]

Hi everybody

I currently have xorg 7.2 on a 2.6.20-r7 kernel. Can't get any of the 
binary drivers to work
on my Radeon 9200 PRO card (as you might have read in previous posts), 
but the open
source drivers works with a little tweaking of xorg.conf.

I use the hardend profil.

I had the following enabled in my kernel when I tried the binary drivers 
from ati:
      Device Drivers  --->
         Character devices  --->
           <M> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support)
         Graphics support  --->
           <*> Support for frame buffer devices

I have the following settings in my make.conf:

USE="gtk gnome alsa hal avahi bash-completion"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse"
VIDEO_CARDS="savage radeon fglrx"

and this line added in my /etc/portage/package.keywords:

x11-drivers/ati-drivers ~x86

With above settings I'm allowed to install version 8.35.5 of the ati driver.

But aticonfig can't generate a xorg file for me so I'm unable to start x, as
I haven't been able to configure xorg manually with the binary driver.

Just thought I would share..

Johannes
     

Francisco Rivas wrote:
> Hi Remy..
>
> I have xorg 7.1.1 8.36.5 ati driver and k 2.6.21 it works fine with 
> opengl...
>
> I hope this help you, and post all your questions...the people here 
> will help you...
>
> On 5/15/07, *Remy Blank* <remy.blank@pobox.com 
> <mailto:remy.blank@pobox.com>> wrote:
>
>     Remy Blank wrote:
>     > I have noticed xorg-7.2 just went stable. I am currently using
>     7.1 with
>     > the stable binary ATI drivers ati-drivers-8.32.5 and the kernel
>     > gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5. Has anybody with the same
>     configuration done
>     > the update? Does it work for you?
>
>     Just for posterity: I have updated to xorg-7.2 and everything works
>     perfectly well. As usual, I should say. A big thank you to Gentoo
>     developers (the xorg maintainers but all others as well) for making
>     system administration as simple as it is now. Nothing ever breaks
>     these
>     days.
>
>     -- Remy
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Francisco Rivas
> Linux User (New) : #448324
> Linux Machine (New) : 355187 

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