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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about X warnings/errors
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:41:45
Message-Id: 200906131041.38717.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Questions about X warnings/errors by Walter Dnes
1 On Samstag 13 Juni 2009, Walter Dnes wrote:
2 > Here's the video card as per "lspci -vv"
3 > ==========================================
4 > 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200
5 > PRO] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
6 > Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]
7 > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
8 > Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr-
9 > DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64
10 > (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
11 > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
12 > Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
13 > Region 1: I/O ports at cc00 [size=256]
14 > Region 2: Memory at fdef0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
15 > [virtual] Expansion ROM at fde00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
16 > Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
17 > Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
18 > PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
19 > ==========================================
20 > At bootup, I get the following (saved in dmesg)
21 > mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent fixed MTRR settings
22 > mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs.
23 > mtrr: corrected configuration.
24 >
25 > and I get the following in the X log file. Can I ignore it?
26 >
27 > (WW) RADEON(0): DRI init changed memory map, adjusting ...
28 > (WW) RADEON(0): MC_FB_LOCATION was: 0xd7ffd000 is: 0xd7ffd000
29 > (WW) RADEON(0): MC_AGP_LOCATION was: 0xffffffc0 is: 0xffffffc0
30 > ==========================================
31
32 yes.
33
34 >
35 >
36 > ==========================================
37 > The following appears in the X log...
38 >
39 > (II) LoadModule: "freetype"
40 >
41 > (WW) Warning, couldn't open module freetype
42 > (II) UnloadModule: "freetype"
43 > (EE) Failed to load module "freetype" (module does not exist, 0)
44 > ==========================================
45
46 you can ignore that too. freetype is not needed.
47
48 >
49 >
50 >
51 > ==========================================
52 > Due to bad experiences with fglrx, I'm using the open source ATI
53 > drivers. I get the following in the X log...
54 >
55 > (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/r200_dri.so failed
56 > (/usr/lib/dri/r200_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
57 > directory) (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
58 > ==========================================
59 you are missing a file. Try re-installing mesa.
60
61
62 >
63 >
64 > ==========================================
65 > In xorg.conf, I've commented out all fontpaths except...
66 >
67 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
68 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
69 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
70 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
71 >
72 > ...but the log still shows...
73 >
74 > (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF" does not exist.
75 > Entry deleted from font path.
76 > (**) FontPath set to:
77 > /usr/share/fonts/misc/,
78 > /usr/share/fonts/Type1/,
79 > /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,
80 > /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,
81 > /usr/share/fonts/misc/,
82 > /usr/share/fonts/TTF/,
83 > /usr/share/fonts/Type1/,
84 > /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,
85 > /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,
86 > built-ins
87 > ==========================================
88 >
89 > Any comments/suggestions?
90
91 yeah. remove all font paths. They are not needed anymore.