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 1PmwHH-0004F6-SM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:43:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D756A1C012; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 22:41:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A480B1C012 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 22:41:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 344EA1B406C for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 22:41:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.518 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.518 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.081, 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 bH5dtphybi-2 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 22:41:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE62D1B40D9 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 22:41:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PmwFk-0004Ym-3j for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:41:44 +0100 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:41:44 +0100 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:41:44 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [drm] loading RV710 Microcode fails Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 22:41:31 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20110208212103.GA4964@pacific.net.au> 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@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101214 Gentoo/2.0.11 SeaMonkey/2.0.11) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a14ff5e058eb2a47790a599f63317c7b Gregory Shearman gmail.com> writes: > Are you using kernel modesetting? If you are then you have to get your > microcode built into the kernel. Not sure, can you be more specific on "modesetting" as grepping the /usr/src/linux/.config does not find anything, so I'm not exactly sure what "modesetting" refers to.... Nothing under the "Generic Driver section of the kernels I have been using has changed. The kernel worked before I began following web pages and notes from this list on removing hald and the hal flag from the system. I did rebuild the kernel-2.6.36-gentoo-r5 after these hal purge exercises began..... CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="/sbin/hotplug" # CONFIG_DEVTMPFS is not set CONFIG_STANDALONE=y CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="" > You need CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE, and provide the filenames of the > firmware you require (in the form of a space delimited string) to run > your graphics card. Here are the setting from .config, as they always have been: (I'd prefer not to use modsetting, unless provided a GOOD reason to use it?) CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="/sbin/hotplug" # CONFIG_DEVTMPFS is not set CONFIG_STANDALONE=y CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=""