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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 22:24:01
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0905231523h45964ddbvf0eb9295319a2916@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
2 > David Relson wrote:
3 >>
4 >> On Sat, 23 May 2009 14:57:32 -0700
5 >> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
6 >>
7 >>> Summary: X is hosed.
8 >>>
9 >>
10 >> A couple of weeks back, I made the transition to the current versions
11 >> of xorg-server and ati-drivers, i.e. the versions in the message
12 >> subject.  I had to do a bit of work with xorg.conf before all was
13 >> good.  If I recall details, keyboard and mouse weren't working and,
14 >> after correcting that, fonts weren't being found.  All is now working
15 >> fine.  Below is my xorg.conf.  Hope it helps.
16 >>
17 >> Regards,
18 >>
19 >> David
20 >>
21 >> ### Begin xorg.conf ###
22 >>
23 >> Section "ServerFlags"
24 >>       Option  "AllowEmptyInput"       "false"
25 >> EndSection
26 >>
27 >> Section "Files"
28 >>        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/util"
29 >>        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/encodings"
30 >>        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
31 >>        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
32 >>        FontPath     "/usr/local/share/fonts"
33 >>        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/default"
34 >>        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
35 >>        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
36 >>        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
37 >> EndSection
38 >>
39 >> ### End xorg.conf ###
40 >
41 > This xorg.conf won't load ati-drivers at all.  If it works, it is probably
42 > running with another driver (radeon or vesa perhaps).  You need to run
43 > "aticonfig --initial" as root first.
44
45 Or he might have it in autoload already and it gets loaded at boot time?
46
47 - Mark

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