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On 07/06/2009 03:29 AM, Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I cleared out some xorg related packages at some point because my machine will
> not shutdown without a kernel oops when it is trying to unload the radeon
> driver.
Hm. There is no reason to unload any driver or module just to shut down. Are
you sure that's the reason for the oops?
> It now seems I can no longer find glxgears/info. What have I
> removed that I shouldn't have?
glxgears is part of mesa-progs.
> I remember unmerging xorg-x11 (there was advice in this list that this is not
> needed when using Fluxbox or other lightweight window managers).
That's a meta-package, which just pulls in a bunch of other packages. Meta-
packages are never needed, they're just for your convenience.
> When I moved to x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r* I also unmerged
> x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati. I recall concluding at the time that the new
> xorg-server did not need such an external driver - is that right?
No, xorg-server will always need a specific driver for a specific video card,
it's just a matter of figuring out which one your card needs. OTOH most cards
will work at a very basic level with just the vesa driver -- but that's most
likely not what you want.
> I have set radeon as the video card in my /etc/make.conf, but Xorg.0.log shows
> ati_drv.so - should it be so?
> # less /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep driver
> X.Org XInput driver : 2.1
> (==) Matched ati for the autoconfigured driver
> New driver is "ati"
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//ati_drv.so
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so
> (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_texture_from_pixmap with driver support
>
> # lsmod | grep radeon
> radeon 145696 2
> drm 141892 3 radeon
I don't know enough about ati products to answer. The xorg-server is pretty
good at picking the right driver by itself. If you type "X -logverbose" at
a command prompt and look at the X logfile you may see that the server has
loaded multiple drivers and then unloads the ones it doesn't need -- strange
behavior but that's the way it's designed, apparently.