Re: [gentoo-user] Video Card of Death! (Yes its on topic.)

[Julien Cabillot]

I have Xorg7.1 & ati-drivers, that's work fine.

On 8/15/06, Neil Isaac <isaac.neil@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/15/06, Ian Kabeary <omega21@×××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi there,
> > My laptop has a Radeon 9100. Toshiba advertised a 9000 so at the time I
> was
> > happy. Then I realized that the proprietary ATi drivers dont give this
> card
> > 3d acceleration, which it is totally capable of. Anyway, I tried the
> wiki
> > instructions on getting this card to work but they are quite cryptic the
> way
> > they have written them. It kind of branches off into three different
> ways of
> > doing it, but you never know what reading to skip and what to do.
> >
> > I got reasonably far. What I did was take the support for the direct
> > rendering manager out of the kernel, while including the Radeon driver
> and
> > other associated things. For the purposes of this support request, I do
> not
> > believe they are completely relevant. After doing what I think it was
> that I
> > should do, I started X. (I have 7.1.1 by the way). What I end up with is
> > that it cant find the drivers because the version of the radeon driver
> > version doesn't match the server version or something? I have no idea
> what
> > that means.
> >
> > Projects use waaaay different versioning systems. Seriously, I have no
> clue
> > what its going on about! :) Is this a cryptic way of saying the driver
> wants
> > Xorg < 7.0?
>
> Xorg 7.0 should be fine. Nvidia and ati have not released drivers that
> work with 7.1 yet. In my experience, ati drivers are hell to get
> working (I never did get them working in the end - but I do have
> friends who have gotten them up and running) so I wish you luck.
>
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> Neil Isaac
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Julien Cabillot