Re: [gentoo-amd64] radeon driver problems

[Daiajo Tibdixious]

On 9 Oct 2016 7:45 am, "Daiajo Tibdixious" <daiajo@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> On 9 Oct 2016 12:09 am, "Drake Donahue" <donahue95@×××××××.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 2016-10-08 at 20:35 +1100, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote:
> > This relates to my ATI driver conflict with xorg-server problem.
> > > Sorry if this comes though in html format I did not realise the last
> > > one was in html mode.
> > > I'm trying the solution to stop using fglrx and just use the radeon
> > > driver,
> > > however I'm getting weird problems.
> > >
> > > I removed fglrx from VIDEO_CARDS. Enabled radeon driver as a module i
> > >
> > > the kernel,
> > > plus several other options recommended by the wiki.
> > > First I hacked \etc\X11\xorg.conf to removed the ATI specific code,
> > > however I get the same problem with X -configure code.
> > >
> > > Googling the actual error "Screen 0 deleted because of no matching
> > > config section"
> > > shows that its not that, its some kind of driver problem.
> > >
> > > Any hints on what else I can try? I don't want to try the other
> > > alternative (use fglrx with old versions of xorg-server and the
> > > input-evdev,video-ati drivers) yet.
> >
> > Assuming you run udev or eudev and dbus, recommend you delete or rename
> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf and allow the xorg server provided script to run and
> > do the configuration for you.
> > If xorg still fails, recommend you run
> > awk
> > '/CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO/,/CONFIG_SOUND/' /usr/src/linux/.config
> > and
> > provide the result here or in a pastebin.
> >
> With no xorg. conf get
> Open /dev/dri/card0: no such file or directory
> I do have udev with no custom setup.
> There is no output from that awk, CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is not in
.config

It finds PCI:*(0:1:0:0) then later says Device(s) detected, but none match
those in config file

(I would have cut heaps of included text but cut/paste not working well on
phone) I'll send log file later