Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Xorg going on Radeon HD R730 4670

[Mick]

On Saturday 06 March 2010 16:08:05 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Samstag 06 März 2010, Mick wrote:
> > I first tried radeonhd, but Xorg.0.log complained that it couldn't find
> > the ati module, so I added radeon in VIDEO_CARDS and it now comes up with
> > this error:
> > ===========================================
> > (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/r600_dri.so failed
> > (/usr/lib64/dri/r600_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file
> > or directory)
> > (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
> > ===========================================
> >
> > Have you seen this before?  Any idea what I should tweak now to get this
> > going?
>
> mesa. You need to install mesa with the right flags.

Thanks Volker,

I had installed mesa with the radeon flag already, but now I just 
unmasked/updated it to 2.4.8 and the above error is gone!

However, still no X.  :-(

I have also added mouse and synaptics, after initially trying with only evdev 
in my INPUT_DEVICES.  So now it looks like this:

INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev"

When I added synaptics I got an error about RECORD being disabled because it 
is broken.  I attach my logs in case there is something in there showing why 
this is not working and I can't see it.

I can't explain why both Knoppix and Sysrescue CDs work fine and my Gentoo 
build does not.  I even used their xorg.conf as a guide and still no joy.  I 
noticed this message (with no xorg.conf):
========================================
(II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
(II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device.
(II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
	If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable AutoAddDevices.
========================================
but I am not sure how I can reconfigure HAL.

Any suggestions before I rip all this out and have a go at the ATI proprietary 
drivers is most welcome.
-- 
Regards,
Mick