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On 2010-10-16 04:24, Jeff Cranmer wrote: |
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> OK, so let's have a go at the ATI drivers again. |
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> First, get rid of the open source ati drivers |
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> emerge --unmerge -av radeon-ucode xf86-video-ati |
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Why? Unless you have problems with space I'd keep it because eventually |
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there will be support for your chipset (right now it's in "alpha" or |
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maybe "beta" phase). |
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODUzMQ |
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You don't need to unmerge the open source ati drivers, it can peacefully |
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coexist with the proprietary drivers. Just don't use it until they've |
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gone stable. |
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> Editing the /etc/make.conf file to change the last line to |
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> VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx" |
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I have: VIDEO_CARDS="radeon fglrx vesa" with fglrx working fine. |
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> then running emerge -NDuav system changes the mesa driver so that I have |
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> no valid selections for "VIDEO_CARDS=", so I'll unmerge mesa |
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> emerge --unmerge -av mesa |
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xorg-server depends on mesa unless you run USE=minimal. |
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> running emerge -NDuav world identified the xorg-drivers and pm-utils |
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> packages that have changed, and attempts to re-emerge mesa, so I'll |
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> unmerge those two |
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> emerge --unmerge -av xorg-drivers pm-utils |
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Don't have pm-utils installed so can't tell anything about them but if |
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you're relying on powermanagement (laptop?) then maybe you should keep it? |
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> run aticonfig --initial to create an xorg.conf file. |
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Where did you place your xorg.conf file? It should be located in |
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/etc/X11/xorg.conf. If I remember correctly, the aticonfig tool creates |
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an xorg.conf in your working directory and you have to move it to /etc/X11/. |
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> Hmm - the xorg.log file has this error. |
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> atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized. |
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Do you have dri enabled? I.e. is there an dri module available? |
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HTH |
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Best regards |
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Peter K |
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