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From: Daiajo Tibdixious <daiajo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64 <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] radeon driver problems
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2016 20:45:13
Message-Id: CAC4mkfsC57VioanX6u2SgwT_inQg0DyNFnLFCTO+fQXPfnpvUg@mail.gmail.com
1 On 9 Oct 2016 12:09 am, "Drake Donahue" <donahue95@×××××××.net> wrote:
2 >
3 > On Sat, 2016-10-08 at 20:35 +1100, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote:
4 > > This relates to my ATI driver conflict with xorg-server problem.
5 > > Sorry if this comes though in html format I did not realise the last
6 > > one was in html mode.
7 > > I'm trying the solution to stop using fglrx and just use the radeon
8 > > driver,
9 > > however I'm getting weird problems.
10 > >
11 > > I removed fglrx from VIDEO_CARDS. Enabled radeon driver as a module i
12 > >
13 > > the kernel,
14 > > plus several other options recommended by the wiki.
15 > > First I hacked \etc\X11\xorg.conf to removed the ATI specific code,
16 > > however I get the same problem with X -configure code.
17 > >
18 > > Googling the actual error "Screen 0 deleted because of no matching
19 > > config section"
20 > > shows that its not that, its some kind of driver problem.
21 > >
22 > > Any hints on what else I can try? I don't want to try the other
23 > > alternative (use fglrx with old versions of xorg-server and the
24 > > input-evdev,video-ati drivers) yet.
25 >
26 > Assuming you run udev or eudev and dbus, recommend you delete or rename
27 > /etc/X11/xorg.conf and allow the xorg server provided script to run and
28 > do the configuration for you.
29 > If xorg still fails, recommend you run
30 > awk
31 > '/CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO/,/CONFIG_SOUND/' /usr/src/linux/.config
32 > and
33 > provide the result here or in a pastebin.
34 >
35 With no xorg. conf get
36 Open /dev/dri/card0: no such file or directory
37 I do have udev with no custom setup.
38 There is no output from that awk, CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is not in .config