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

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Samstag 06 März 2010, Mick wrote:
> 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.

RECORD does not matter.

>
> 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):

yeah. please create a xorg.conf. Depending on hal is nice and dandy in theory. 
But so does not work for many people.