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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Xorg going on Radeon HD R730 4670
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:22:41
Message-Id: 201003070021.30364.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Xorg going on Radeon HD R730 4670 by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Saturday 06 March 2010 18:43:15 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > On Samstag 06 März 2010, Mick wrote:
3 > > On Saturday 06 March 2010 16:08:05 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
4 > > > On Samstag 06 März 2010, Mick wrote:
5 > > > > I first tried radeonhd, but Xorg.0.log complained that it couldn't
6 > > > > find the ati module, so I added radeon in VIDEO_CARDS and it now
7 > > > > comes up with this error:
8 > > > > ===========================================
9 > > > > (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/r600_dri.so failed
10 > > > > (/usr/lib64/dri/r600_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
11 > > > > file or directory)
12 > > > > (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
13 > > > > ===========================================
14 > > > >
15 > > > > Have you seen this before? Any idea what I should tweak now to get
16 > > > > this going?
17 > > >
18 > > > mesa. You need to install mesa with the right flags.
19 > >
20 > > Thanks Volker,
21 > >
22 > > I had installed mesa with the radeon flag already, but now I just
23 > > unmasked/updated it to 2.4.8 and the above error is gone!
24 > >
25 > > However, still no X. :-(
26 > >
27 > > I have also added mouse and synaptics, after initially trying with only
28 > > evdev in my INPUT_DEVICES. So now it looks like this:
29 > >
30 > > INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev"
31 > >
32 > > When I added synaptics I got an error about RECORD being disabled because
33 > > it is broken. I attach my logs in case there is something in there
34 > > showing why this is not working and I can't see it.
35 >
36 > RECORD does not matter.
37 >
38 > > I can't explain why both Knoppix and Sysrescue CDs work fine and my
39 > > Gentoo build does not. I even used their xorg.conf as a guide and still
40 > > no joy. I noticed this message (with no xorg.conf):
41 >
42 > yeah. please create a xorg.conf. Depending on hal is nice and dandy in
43 > theory. But so does not work for many people.
44
45 Hmm, can't make it work after multiple attempts of creating and editing a
46 xorg.conf. I think that the problem is with the drivers and perhaps the
47 versions of xorg-server and or mesa. I am using the latest testing of
48 everything and unmasked any dependencies that they had.
49
50 Tomorrow I will have a go at the fglrx. This is doing my head in ...
51 --
52 Regards,
53 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Xorg going on Radeon HD R730 4670 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>