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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: ATI X trouble, again
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:33:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hbsicd$pi6$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910231415.25058.wonko@wonkology.org>

On 10/23/2009 03:15 PM, Alex Schuster wrote:
>
> I did not try ati-drivers. Her card is a RV505 (Radeon X1550 Series) which
> is no longer supported by current ati-drivers. Older drivers might still
> work for a while, but only with kernels<  2.6.29. And I suspect the problem
> is not the driver itself, because radeon does not work, too, and I also had
> similar problems of a blank screen with an ATI card and different drivers.

For the radeon X driver (which *is* the best choice for the X1000 
series) make sure you also have radeon in-kernel support enabled.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-23 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-23 12:15 [gentoo-user] ATI X trouble, again Alex Schuster
2009-10-23 13:46 ` Mark Knecht
2009-10-23 14:09   ` Alex Schuster
2009-10-23 14:20     ` Mark Knecht
2009-10-23 13:59 ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-10-23 15:33 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2009-10-23 15:47   ` [gentoo-user] " Alex Schuster
2009-10-23 16:12     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-10-23 19:45       ` Alex Schuster
2009-10-23 16:17     ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-10-23 21:05       ` Alex Schuster
2009-10-23 22:12         ` Mark Knecht
2009-10-24  6:26           ` Alex Schuster

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