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 1Mpqr3-0002I5-AP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:55:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55807E072B; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:55:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D1BE072B for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:55:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D458E67886 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:55:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.203 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.203 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.604, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id dbEY1cTo1zkU for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:55:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 496C667874 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:55:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Mpqqp-0003JM-5E for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:55:15 +0200 Received: from athedsl-383307.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.49.73]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:55:15 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-383307.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:55:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers to radeon Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:54:52 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-383307.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090826 Thunderbird/3.0b3 In-Reply-To: Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 8395dbcc-7c18-45cf-aa1e-a568d9a052c4 X-Archives-Hash: 6ab366bf0376bca8560bb9926b883db8 On 09/21/2009 08:10 PM, James wrote: > Hello, > > Currently, on an old laptop I have this chip: > 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc > Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > > using ati-drivers, all if fine with: > > #### xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 > #### ati-drivers-8.593 > #### xorg-x11-7.4 > #### linux -> linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r5/ > > I want to convert to the open-source radeon driver > > > I'm not finding instruction docs (except very old) so here's > what I have found to do. > > edit /etc/make.conf: > > VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa" > (I keep vesa for a backup....) > > emerge -C ati-drivers > > run 'qlist -I -C x11-drivers/' > > and rebuild the list of supporting drivers? > > > ??? that simple or did I miss something? One more thing. Enable DRM support in the kernel and select the Radeon DRM driver. You need this or else you won't get accelerated graphics.