From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H4hQH-00058X-LV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:39:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0AHcDNC003715; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:38:13 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0AHUQCE000822 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:30:27 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F72964A24 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:30:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.56 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.56 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.039, 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 lJfANy00K+nq for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:30:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD4EE649E6 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:30:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H4hH0-0004ge-2x for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:30:02 +0100 Received: from www.buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:30:02 +0100 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:30:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:25:24 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <45A45BD6.1020905@verizon.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20070104 SeaMonkey/1.0.6) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: ff1881e3-7c62-41c5-b61d-65a08577bb26 X-Archives-Hash: 23cacaa69958cfb0261fef0ef3271f58 Sean 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list