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From: "Sebastian Günther" <samson@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ATI radeon problems
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:03:32
Message-Id: 20090408100328.GA19461@marvin.heimnetz.local
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ATI radeon problems by Jacques Montier
1 * Jacques Montier (jacques.montier@×××××××××××.fr) [08.04.09 11:27]:
2 > Hi all,
3 >
4 > I have two major problems with my 9600 ATI (RV350) graphic card
5 >
6 > - With the free radeon driver (x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.12.1-r1) :
7 > After few minutes, while emerging or working with some software (Gimp),
8 > %CPU increases and then X completely freezes. Then reset... :-(
9 >
10 > - The proprietary ATI driver (x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.582) can't
11 > compile with gentoo-sources-2.6.28-r4.
12 > It asks me to set CONFIG_PCI_MSI=y in the kernel config.
13 > But there is no CONFIG_PCI_MSI line in the .config !!!
14 >
15
16 Is CONFIG_PCI=y present?
17
18 If set to =n the all PCI things are not configured...
19
20 CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI=y should also be there, for this an internal
21 check if your platform has the possibility to use MSI.
22
23 > Any idea that would help me ?
24
25 Maybe a make menuconfig could be a little more informative for you.
26
27 > Thank you very much,
28 >
29
30 Sebastian

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Re: [gentoo-user] ATI radeon problems Jacques Montier <jacques.montier@×××××××××××.fr>