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On Monday 06 July 2009, walt wrote: |
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> On 07/06/2009 03:29 AM, Mick wrote: |
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> > I cleared out some xorg related packages at some point because my machine |
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> > will not shutdown without a kernel oops when it is trying to unload the |
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> > radeon driver. |
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> Hm. There is no reason to unload any driver or module just to shut down. |
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> Are you sure that's the reason for the oops? |
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Well, no, but when I Ctrl+Alt+F1 to a console and shutdown from there there |
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are no oops with the usual messages about "vblank_disable_fn+0x79/0xd0 [drm]" |
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and "EIP: [<e0cc14fe>] radeon_get_vblank_counter+0x7e/0xd0 [radeon]". |
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> > When I moved to x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r* I also unmerged |
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> > x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati. I recall concluding at the time that the new |
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> > xorg-server did not need such an external driver - is that right? |
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> No, xorg-server will always need a specific driver for a specific video |
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> card, it's just a matter of figuring out which one your card needs. OTOH |
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> most cards will work at a very basic level with just the vesa driver -- but |
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> that's most likely not what you want. |
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I recall that when I unmerged xf86-video-ati, glxgears still performed as |
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before and therefore I assumed that the new xorg-server had access to all it |
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needed to run my video card. Should I emerge it again? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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