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 1N1MlP-0004Y1-F8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:13:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 661A1E09E3; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:13:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43B3CE09E3 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:13:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5B8F668AD for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:13:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.167 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.167 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.568, 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 x3Wf31GY2M4x for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:13:07 +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 DDFF066749 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:13:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N1MlB-0007qo-QM for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:13:01 +0200 Received: from athedsl-373464.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.10.214]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:13:01 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-373464.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:13:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:12:43 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <200910231415.25058.wonko@wonkology.org> <200910231747.44662.wonko@wonkology.org> 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-373464.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091019 Thunderbird/3.0b4 In-Reply-To: <200910231747.44662.wonko@wonkology.org> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 6ad305de-82c7-4692-9930-5b3a7c2293a7 X-Archives-Hash: a508a5293cf0ddf3b10895f2b9e3ff72 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 ?