[gentoo-user] Met a brick wall migrating to Modular X

[gentoo-user] Met a brick wall migrating to Modular X

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I'm trying to follow the HOWTO, but I've got a problem with ATI.
I put 'ati' in VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, but it was not picked
up in the actual emerge, and now the driver does not exist, as
reported by startx.

Startx also complains of a missing "speedo" module, but I don't
even know what that is.

In addition, after the build and the revdep-rebuild, an emerge -u
wants to build virtual-x11-7.0-r2, as mentioned in the writeup.
What it didn't mention was that a huge number of KDE packages
are calling for it.  What do I do about this?  Recompile all of KDE
too (presumably by making them all ~x86)?  Something else?

Summary:
   - how do I make an ATI driver
   - how do I make a speedo driver
   - how to get KDE working

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Re: [gentoo-user] Met a brick wall migrating to Modular X

[Mick]

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On Saturday 16 September 2006 17:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I'm trying to follow the HOWTO, but I've got a problem with ATI.
> I put 'ati' in VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, but it was not picked
> up in the actual emerge, and now the driver does not exist, as
> reported by startx.

Try VIDEO_CARDS="radeon"

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Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Met a brick wall migrating to Modular X

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On 9/16/06, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 16 September 2006 17:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > I'm trying to follow the HOWTO, but I've got a problem with ATI.
> > I put 'ati' in VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, but it was not picked
> > up in the actual emerge, and now the driver does not exist, as
> > reported by startx.
>
> Try VIDEO_CARDS="radeon"

Can't try it for the next hour or so, but I have my doubts anyway.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf has, in part

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "ati-internal"
    Driver      "ati"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen1"
    Device      "ati-internal"
    Monitor     "Westinghouse"
   ...

And that's the only Device section.  Accordingly, I expect startx is going
to continue to expect a driver named "ati".  Which is good, because that's
the kind of video I have on my motherboard.

++ kevin


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Re: [gentoo-user] Met a brick wall migrating to Modular X

[Richard Fish]

On 9/16/06, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/16/06, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday 16 September 2006 17:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > > I'm trying to follow the HOWTO, but I've got a problem with ATI.
> > > I put 'ati' in VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, but it was not picked
> > > up in the actual emerge, and now the driver does not exist, as
> > > reported by startx.
> >
> > Try VIDEO_CARDS="radeon"
>
> Can't try it for the next hour or so, but I have my doubts anyway.
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf has, in part

VIDEO_CARDS="ati" is not a valid option.  Check "emerge -pv xorg-x11",
it will list the valid options.  You can use "radeon", "mach64", or
"r128", to bring in xf86-video-ati, aka the open-source "ati" and
"radeon" drivers.  Or you can use "fglrx" to bring in the proprietary
ATI drivers.

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] Met a brick wall migrating to Modular X

[Mick]

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On Saturday 16 September 2006 18:04, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On 9/16/06, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday 16 September 2006 17:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > > I'm trying to follow the HOWTO, but I've got a problem with ATI.
> > > I put 'ati' in VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, but it was not picked
> > > up in the actual emerge, and now the driver does not exist, as
> > > reported by startx.
> >
> > Try VIDEO_CARDS="radeon"
>
> Can't try it for the next hour or so, but I have my doubts anyway.
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf has, in part
>
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier  "ati-internal"
>     Driver      "ati"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier  "Screen1"
>     Device      "ati-internal"
>     Monitor     "Westinghouse"
>    ...
>
> And that's the only Device section.  Accordingly, I expect startx is going
> to continue to expect a driver named "ati".  Which is good, because that's
> the kind of video I have on my motherboard.

The xorg-x11 requires radeon_drv.so, which will only be built if you somehow 
tell it to do so.  Thereafter you may want the kernel ATI modules (select 
them when you build your kernel) or the fglrx module in which case run emerge 
ati-drivers.  That's how I understand it to be; not sure if things have 
changed since I set up one of my boxen.

HTH.
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Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Met a brick wall migrating to Modular X

[Richard Fish]

On 9/17/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@zlin.dk> wrote:
> Well, I guess that means your xorg.conf is obsolete.
> x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati provides a radeon driver rather than an ati
> driver. So the Driver should be set to radeon also...

Actually, xf86-video-ati will provide ati, r128, and radeon video
drivers.  So ati is probably correct here for that very old chip.

-Richard

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