Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X

[Francisco Rivas]

Johannes my friend.. and all list..

If I live near to you I will go to your pc and try personaly but It's not
possible, so please we try later, when fell good try, no matter how many
time take this, really. I think the most imortant thing is try sometimes.
But we do a better work, and this is the main idea of the list. Believe me a
lot of people here can help you and I am so sure they will do.

Thanks for let us help you :D..

Message to all list : We have a work to do: Help people!. The wrold need
person like us, people help people to be better. Smile and have a nice very
nice day.

On 5/15/07, Johannes Skov Frandsen <joe@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everybody
>
> Tried and failed... again!
>
> Everything installs nicely... but 'ati-config --initial' won't work
> without
> a valid 'xorg.conf' file as input.
>
> The one that it do generates when I give it the one that works with the
> opensource driver
> don't allow me to run startx. It claims it can't find a monitor and the
> graphic card driver.
>
> I read on Slashdot that AMD plans to deliver future ati drivers as
> opensource. Let's hope that makes thinks easy for everybody. I want bother
> anymore with this graphic card. The opensource driver works decently, and
> I
> will start to look in to other things that are annoying me; like why I
> can't
> emerge vlc and why I can't get rhythmbox to play mp3.
>
> PS
>
> To Francisco...
>
> Sorry for bailing out... It has been a big boost to my moral when trying
> to
> solve this problem, having enthusiastic and dedicated people like yourself
> guiding and helping me. I will strive to be just as dedicated when my
> experience reaches a level where I can be of help for this list.
>
> Regards
> Johannes Skov Frandsen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aleksandar L. Dimitrov [mailto:aleks_d@×××.de]
> Sent: 12. maj 2007 21:26
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X
>
> On Sat, 12 May 2007 11:34:39 -0400
> "Francisco Rivas" <taken2k4@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi friends, Johannes bro.. I can't give up with that, I know we can
> > solve your problem, I feel it :D
> >
>
> Watch out, or you'll end up as a case for the Scary Devil Monastery.
> I've probably already reached this point. :)
>
> > The most important thing is try, one more try and it's enough..
> >
> > Uninstall the xserver, unistall the ati drivers
> > check all configurations of your kernel..
> > Install xserver 7.1 and 8.36.5  ati driver manually.. run aticonfig
> > --initial
> >
>
> The Xorg-Server version 1.3 is still in the testing branch, so you
> might do better with the following command:
>
> VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx" emerge -va =x11-base/xorg-server-1.2.0-r3
>
> Then follow the already given instructions, i.e. install the version of
> the driver ATI recommends
>
> emerge -C ati-drivers && emerge -va =x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.28.8
>
> and then remove your xorg.conf. Not remove of course, but just rename
> it to a backup file. Then go on with ati-config --initial. It could
> mourn about a missing X.conf, but I think it should really make one up,
> no matter if there's already one or not. Running ati-config --initial
> on any unclean xorg.conf could really make a mess out of it anyways
> (multiple Server/Device/Monitor entries... that can be quite a nuisance
> to get rid of!).
>
> If you need any OpenGL-stuff (quite a chance you do...) this can be
> discussed later on. Let's first get it to work at all :)
>
> Regards, Aleks
>
> PS: that's like the standard ritual for being accepted as someone
> familiar with the basics of Linux: going to xorg.conf hell... once you
> get used to it, it's easy. If you experience any trouble you could as
> well just post it here, so we can have a look at it.
> --
> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
>
> --
> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
>
>


-- 
Francisco Rivas
Linux User (New) : #448324
Linux Machine (New) : 355187