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On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 05:53:37 +0200 |
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bitlord <bitlord0xff@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2015-08-22 at 19:08 -0700, walt wrote: |
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> > I forgot about xf86-video-ati until you mentioned it, so I just |
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> > emerged |
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> > it and (I think) made all the changes needed to reconfigure Xorg to |
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> > use |
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> > it instead of fglrx. |
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> > Maybe I'm just too tired right now to think straight, but the error |
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> > messages I see in Xorg.log tell me that my video chip is not |
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> > supported. |
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> For radeon (free driver) you need to configure more than Xorg, check |
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> wiki article about radeon driver [1], It needs in kernel support, also |
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> most cards especially "newer" (>=r600) need proprietary firmware. |
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> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon |
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An excellent wiki page, thanks. It tells me that my video chip should |
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be supported so I'll go back and follow all the steps this time. I'd |
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like to avoid the proprietary ati driver if I can. |
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