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 1Ms5Au-00087x-2s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:37:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C9EDE07A2; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:37:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B755E07A2 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:37:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3799B67646 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:37:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.2 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.2 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.601, 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 ckQAhQlbylJc for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:37:03 +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 ABCD367682 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:37:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Ms5Af-0005v0-U5 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:36:57 +0200 Received: from athedsl-382649.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.46.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:36:57 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-382649.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:36:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: bzflag is broken Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:36:36 +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-382649.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090923 Thunderbird/3.0b4 In-Reply-To: Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 2897c56d-640f-4078-baf3-dd585422f5c1 X-Archives-Hash: c019ffb83050855f55a5452e31608839 On 09/28/2009 02:55 AM, James wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras arcor.de> writes: > >> Check if your graphics card is actually fully supported by >> ati-drivers-9.9; only HD2000/HD3000/HD4000 series cards are supported. > > It an EAH4350 Silent. It worked fined with the '8' series > of drivers. > > > >> eselect opengl set ati >> Also make sure that your /etc/X11/xorg.conf contains this: >> Section "DRI" >> Mode 0666 >> EndSection > > Always have these... > >> emerge -a1 `qlist -IC x11-drivers/` > Yep did that too, but, I'll do this one more time, just to > make sure nothing was missed.... > >> For what it's worth, I just installed bzflag here. I'm on AMD64, a >> Radeon HD4870, ati-drivers-9.10 (renamed ebuild of ati-drivers-8.660, >> which is a beta release of 9.10 released by Ubuntu, therefore the weird >> version and mask in portage), gentoo-sources-2.6.31. > > Most like the card is not supported. Where is the list of supported cards > for the 9 series of ati-drivers. Mine is a EAH 4350 SILENT from > asus. The 4350 is fully supported: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/catalyst_99_linux.pdf Can you try with some Live CD that loads the ati-drivers during live boot? I think Sabayon does this. If bzflag works there, then there's something wrong in the Gentoo installation.