From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P72ks-0004D9-FB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 09:08:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 461DAE07CD for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 09:08:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-out-1.alltele.net (smtp-out-1.alltele.net [85.8.31.24]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55F02E07DD for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 09:06:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-out-1.alltele.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-out-1.alltele.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 069CE20007 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 11:06:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by smtp-out-1.alltele.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id ECAD420008; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 11:06:00 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=6.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp-out-1.alltele.net Received: from [192.168.1.100] (71.57.227.87.static.th.siw.siwnet.net [87.227.57.71]) by smtp-out-1.alltele.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7C73620007 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 11:05:56 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4CB96AF4.7020601@coolmail.se> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 11:05:56 +0200 From: pk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100910 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card References: <1286926877.8946.11.camel@laptop.limeyworld> <1287019394.12756.12.camel@laptop.limeyworld> <1287187868.5053.4.camel@laptop.limeyworld> <1287195855.5053.93.camel@laptop.limeyworld> In-Reply-To: <1287195855.5053.93.camel@laptop.limeyworld> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AV-Checked: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Archives-Salt: 182468fc-5120-4f39-a708-55134896503d X-Archives-Hash: 0ae593d35cc5fe84463fee24bae3a4a6 On 2010-10-16 04:24, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > OK, so let's have a go at the ATI drivers again. > > First, get rid of the open source ati drivers > emerge --unmerge -av radeon-ucode xf86-video-ati Why? Unless you have problems with space I'd keep it because eventually there will be support for your chipset (right now it's in "alpha" or maybe "beta" phase). http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODUzMQ You don't need to unmerge the open source ati drivers, it can peacefully coexist with the proprietary drivers. Just don't use it until they've gone stable. > Editing the /etc/make.conf file to change the last line to > VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx" I have: VIDEO_CARDS="radeon fglrx vesa" with fglrx working fine. > then running emerge -NDuav system changes the mesa driver so that I have > no valid selections for "VIDEO_CARDS=", so I'll unmerge mesa > > emerge --unmerge -av mesa xorg-server depends on mesa unless you run USE=minimal. > running emerge -NDuav world identified the xorg-drivers and pm-utils > packages that have changed, and attempts to re-emerge mesa, so I'll > unmerge those two > > emerge --unmerge -av xorg-drivers pm-utils Don't have pm-utils installed so can't tell anything about them but if you're relying on powermanagement (laptop?) then maybe you should keep it? > run aticonfig --initial to create an xorg.conf file. Where did you place your xorg.conf file? It should be located in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. If I remember correctly, the aticonfig tool creates an xorg.conf in your working directory and you have to move it to /etc/X11/. > Hmm - the xorg.log file has this error. > atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized. Do you have dri enabled? I.e. is there an dri module available? HTH Best regards Peter K