[gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Sean <tech.junk <at> verizon.net> writes:


> Anyway, have had nothing but problems trying to get 
this thing working.
> Found many bugs listed against the ati-drivers, and 
not having much more 
> success using the open source drivers also listed in 
the Gentoo ATI faq.

> Before I go much further, or post for any help here,
 have any others 
> here managed to get this card working on Gentoo, 

Hello Sean,

I do  not have a 9550 card, but, here are a few resources 
and suggesting
that I have found that might help. I did get my ATI 1900 
to work, but,
only after quit a lot of pain....

1. unmask the lastest ATI drivers ( as the ATI web 
sites says there
are lots of bug fixes in 8.32.5) and install it. It 
was the only version
that worked on my ati 1900 card.

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.32.5.html

2. Pay very close attention to your xorg.conf file.
 Mine ended up being
quite different that my "radeon"  driver based systems.
I used 'xorgconfig' to generate the intial xorg.conf 
file. From there,
I just addressed each issue individually.  If web 
pages(wikis) do not specifically
talk about version 8.30.x or later, ignore them. They 
are out of date
and none I tried to follow were very useful. These old 
web pages are about
95% of the problem with getting ati-drivers to work, 
as most reverence
old 2.6 kernels and xorg (before 7.0).....

3. Run 'lspci -v'  and then Look at this web page to 
see exactly which
video card you have. There is quite a lot of 
'disinformation' floating
about between vendors being deceptive and 
inacccurate/old web pages
concerning video hardware.

http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/iii//?i=1002

http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gentoo-radeon-faq.html#4_nodevice

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Fglrx#Building_for_Xorg_7.0

http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=596

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_R300

http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.linux.gentoo.user&followup=177360


hth,

James



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