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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:13:15
Message-Id: hbsklm$245$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again by Alex Schuster
1 On 10/23/2009 06:47 PM, Alex Schuster wrote:
2 > Nikos Chantziaras writes:
3 >
4 >> On 10/23/2009 03:15 PM, Alex Schuster wrote:
5 >>> I did not try ati-drivers. Her card is a RV505 (Radeon X1550 Series)
6 >>> which is no longer supported by current ati-drivers. Older drivers
7 >>> might still work for a while, but only with kernels< 2.6.29. And I
8 >>> suspect the problem is not the driver itself, because radeon does not
9 >>> work, too, and I also had similar problems of a blank screen with an
10 >>> ATI card and different drivers.
11 >>
12 >> For the radeon X driver (which *is* the best choice for the X1000
13 >> series) make sure you also have radeon in-kernel support enabled.
14 >
15 > It is enabled, and according do dmesg, it is running fine:
16 >
17 > [ 387.433698] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
18 > [ 387.535673] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.30.0 20080528 for 0000:02:00.0 on
19 > minor 0
20 >
21 > But that's only for GLX, right? So even if it weren't enabled, I should see
22 > something, I guess.
23
24 Can you post /var/log/Xorg.0.log on http://pastebin.ca ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>