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From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>
To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] startx does not work for AMD/ATI Radion HD 4770
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 08:43:12
Message-Id: CAC=wYCGec4qjj-2dupd+U5SpXFetEwj+khBxq_Ojz7cHQ=hfQg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] startx does not work for AMD/ATI Radion HD 4770 by gevisz
1 Try creating an xorg.conf
2
3 On Thursday, December 26, 2019, gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> wrote:
4
5 > I have installed Gentoo on my second desktop computer
6 > with Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard, AMD
7 > Phenome II X4 945 processor, and AMD/ATI Radion
8 > HD 4770 video card. However, currently I have only
9 > the command line: startx fails to start X11 reporting
10 > the following error:
11 > ...
12 > (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported.
13 > (EE) Fatal server error:
14 > (EE) no screens found (EE)
15 > ...
16 > (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
17 > ...
18 > xinit: unable to connect to X server: Bad file descriptor.
19 > and this is despite of the fact that I configured 4.19.86
20 > gentoo kernel following instructions from
21 > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Guide
22 > and
23 > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon#Feature_support
24 > Namely, I set
25 > EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR = /lib/firmware
26 > EXTRA_FIRMWARE = radeon/R700_rlc.bin, RV740_smc.bin, and RV710_uvd.bin
27 > DRM = y and DRM_RADEON = y as described in the second link above.
28 > (I have tried several variations but always got the above
29 > error message after startx.)
30 >
31 >

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