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On Monday 06 July 2009, Mick wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> I cleared out some xorg related packages at some point because my machine |
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> will not shutdown without a kernel oops when it is trying to unload the |
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> radeon driver. It now seems I can no longer find glxgears/info. What have |
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> I removed that I shouldn't have? |
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> I remember unmerging xorg-x11 (there was advice in this list that this is |
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> not needed when using Fluxbox or other lightweight window managers). |
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> When I moved to x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r* I also unmerged |
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> x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati. I recall concluding at the time that the new |
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> xorg-server did not need such an external driver - is that right? |
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> I have set radeon as the video card in my /etc/make.conf, but Xorg.0.log |
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> shows ati_drv.so - should it be so? |
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> # less /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep driver |
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> X.Org XInput driver : 2.1 |
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> (==) Matched ati for the autoconfigured driver |
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> New driver is "ati" |
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> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//ati_drv.so |
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> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so |
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> (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_texture_from_pixmap with driver support |
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> # lsmod | grep radeon |
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> radeon 145696 2 |
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> drm 141892 3 radeon |
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> Your views? |
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I hope it's not bad form to reply to my own message ... |
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When I unmerged xorg-x11 I depclean removed a number of packages including |
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x11-apps/mesa-progs - which contains glxinfo and glxgears. |
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So, this leaves the question - do I need x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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