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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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Editing the /etc/make.conf file to change the last line to |
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VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx" |
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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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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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moving on to the kernel, I verify that I have the correct kernel |
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parameters: |
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Device drivers -> |
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Graphics Support -> |
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<*> dev/agpgart (AGP support) |
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None of the other modules below the agpgart appear to be appropriate, so |
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I'll not enable any of these. |
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Disable the direct rendering manager and framebuffer support, so this |
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should take care of the radeon driver module. I'll do a locate search |
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for this before I reboot. |
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> Device Drivers -> |
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> Generic Driver Options -> |
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> < > Userspace firmware loading support |
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> [ ] Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary |
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Recompile the kernel and update using grub. |
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emerge ati-drivers |
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It seems this was still present from the previous attempt, so I'll |
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re-emerge it. |
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Running emerge -NDuav system still pulls in mesa, so back in it goes. |
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Running emerge -NDuav world pulls back in xorg-drivers and pm-utils, so |
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these are also reinstalled. |
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emerge --depclean pulls out a few packages, |
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radeontool |
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gst-plugins-v4l |
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gst-plugins-v4l2 |
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gentoo-sources-2.6.34-r6 |
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since gentoo-sources-2.6.34-r6 is the kernel I'm presently operating |
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with, I'll re-emerge that and verify that it is still current via |
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eselect kernel list. |
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revdep-rebuild doesn't add anything else. |
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Prevent boot-up into X-windows, then reboot. |
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rc-update del xdm default |
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reboot |
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run aticonfig --initial to create an xorg.conf file. |
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startx |
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total system crash - hard reset required to reboot. |
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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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Can anyone shed light on this? |
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Thanks |
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Jeff |
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On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 20:11 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 10:32 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> > |
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> > You mentioned that you used "fglrxinfo" in your post, which assumes |
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> > you're using the closed source driver :-/ Another hint was that you're |
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> > using an HD5000 series card, which is not supported correctly by the |
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> > open source drivers anyway at this point. |
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> > |
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> Yeah - I realised afterwards that I had left a few things in place from |
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> a failed attempt at installing the closed source drivers. |
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> > Anyway, if you're on open source drivers, I think that's your problem. |
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> > Only the closed source driver works correctly with 3D for HD5000 cards |
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> > at this moment. |
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> Thanks for the advice. I'll take another crack at the closed source |
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> drivers, and if that doesn't work, I'll rip out the $%^& thing and |
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> replace it with an Nvidia card<g> |
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> |
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> Jeff |
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