Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Mark Haney <mhaney@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems after Xorg 7.1.1 upgrade - SOLVED (maybe)
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:40:19
Message-Id: 4540AC4A.2000206@ercbroadband.org
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-amd64] Problems after Xorg 7.1.1 upgrade by Mark Haney
1 Mark Haney wrote:
2 > Are there any errors above that? Did you upgrade xf86-input-keyboard?
3 > BTW there is no Xorg 7.1.1, only 7.1 which uses xorg-server-1.1.1-r1 ;)
4 >
5 > My mistake, I was noticing the Xorg.0.log has it that the drivers are
6 > compiled for version 7.1.1.
7 >
8 > Here's my problem now. I'm getting no errors above that line. But I've
9 > narrowed it down to the video driver. If I set xorg.conf to use the
10 > 'ati' driver like I had before, I can start KDE as root, but not as a
11 > regular user, I get a 'module ATI not found'.
12 >
13 > If I change that to 'radeon' I can get it to work, sort of, but I get
14 > really giant font sizes unlike with xorg 7.0. Why doesn't the 'ati'
15 > driver directive work anymore?
16 >
17 >
18 >
19 Well I figured out my problem, it seems that when I updated xorg to 7.1
20 I didn't get the latest xf86-ati-driver (or whatever the name is) with
21 it. Once I upgrade to that. Everything is peachy keen.
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28 Mark Haney
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