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 19:12:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hbsklm$245$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910231747.44662.wonko@wonkology.org>
On 10/23/2009 06:47 PM, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> It is enabled, and according do dmesg, it is running fine:
>
> [ 387.433698] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> [ 387.535673] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.30.0 20080528 for 0000:02:00.0 on
> minor 0
>
> But that's only for GLX, right? So even if it weren't enabled, I should see
> something, I guess.
Can you post /var/log/Xorg.0.log on http://pastebin.ca ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-23 16:13 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 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-10-23 15:47 ` Alex Schuster
2009-10-23 16:12 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
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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