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 1MpmQO-0007dr-0b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:11:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10E19E0886; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:11:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFA4FE0886 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:11:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F38B67444 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:11:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.495 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.495 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.104, 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 EDTCxK5DTVhc for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:11:32 +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 0B0F866AD5 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:11:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MpmQ9-0003Pk-Vi for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:11:25 +0200 Received: from www.buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:11:25 +0200 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:11:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers to radeon Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:10:59 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.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:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090820 SeaMonkey/1.1.17) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: d330384c-70ea-40bf-8a0d-346752004b28 X-Archives-Hash: 7bfcac787602773d290730e1791f0148 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? ??? 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