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On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 00:10:23 +0100 |
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Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Hello Fellows, |
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> My PC had been running on Intel graphics for 1½ years. Finally, I got |
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> myself an AMD R7 370 today and installed it (together with a second |
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> set of 16 Gigs of RAM ^^). |
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> I could use some help getting it working properly. Here is what I did: |
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> yesterday I enabled VIDEO_CARDS=radeon in make.conf and rebuilt world |
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> with --changed-use. I also reconfigured the kernel to build the Intel |
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> driver as a module and to include the radeon module. |
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> After installing the card, at first I only had a black screen and |
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> found out (thanks to #gentoo) that I needed a firmware blob. Once |
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> that was installed, I had a KMS-enabled VT on my AMD-connected |
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> monitor. Yay. |
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> Now I'm stuck with a malfunctioning X (or more specifically, KDE, as |
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> it seems). I can run AwesomeWM just fine. But when I try to start |
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> KDE, I see the first of those fading-in progress icons and then the |
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> screen goes black. |
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> I created a test account to have a clean setup of KDE. This starts KDE |
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> partially, only up to a desktop with an empty panel. There is no mouse |
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> cursor to move around and no reaction to shortcuts such as Alt+F2. |
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> What else could I have missed in my migration from Intel to AMD? |
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> eselect opengl only shows the xorg-x11 option. I had to comment out a |
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> modeline which I set manually in xorg.conf. |
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> See attached: |
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> - /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/gfx.conf |
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> - /var/log/Xorg.0.log from running startx with .xinitrc containing |
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> startkde. You can see those three blocks of modelines at the end. At |
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> around or just before this point the screen goes dark. |
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Random things to try while waiting for better ideas to try: |
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startx -- -logverbose 10 |
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In your .xinitrc try /etc/X11/Sessions/<kde-start-script> if kde |
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supplies such a script. |
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Have you tried using kdm instead of startx? (Even thinking about that |
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raises my blood pressure :) |
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Are you using anything from kde-plasma? (Just running 'eix plasma' |
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makes my blood pressure even higher. The number of permutations |
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involved makes me glad I use xfce4, which is already way too complex |
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for my taste. How xfce4 behaves depends a lot on whether its |
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compositing feature is on or off. Does kde allow you to tweak stuff |
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like that? Of course it does, but not if Xorg dies before you can do |
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the tweaking. (Reaching for blood-pressure pills now...) |
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