[gentoo-user] ati-drivers to radeon

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

Hello,


Currently, on an old laptop I have this chip:
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 
Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])                   
      

using ati-drivers, all if fine with:

#### xorg-server-1.5.3-r5                                                        
#### ati-drivers-8.593                                                           
#### xorg-x11-7.4                                                                
#### linux -> linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r5/     

I want to convert to the open-source radeon driver


I'm not finding instruction docs (except very old) so here's
what I have found to do.

edit /etc/make.conf:

VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa"
(I keep vesa for a backup....)

emerge -C ati-drivers

run 'qlist -I -C x11-drivers/'

and rebuild the list of supporting drivers?
<reboot>

???  that simple or did I miss something?


It seems like there use to be a conversion guide,
but, no luck finding that doc. Once I get the radeon
driver working, I was then going to update X. However,
since I'm keeping this system on kde 3.5.x, until
kde4 is stable (at least on this laptop), 
or should I wait on upgrading X?


comments are welcome....


James