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From: Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 00:29:08
Message-Id: 9acccfe50905251729p796eae2cx1b9fc62791ff11d9@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict by Mick
1 On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Monday 25 May 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
3 >
4 >> In make.config, I changed to
5 >>  VIDEO_CARDS="r128 vga fbdev vesa"
6 >> and recompiled xorg-server.
7 > [snip...]
8 >
9 >> Now when I try "startx" it still has problems, but I appear to be
10 >> closer.  On screen I see
11 > [snip...]
12 >> (EE) Failed to load module "ati" (module does not exist, 0)
13 >
14 > You probably have tried it already, but what gives when you remove
15 > your /etc/X11/xorg.conf completely?  You can create/modify your .fdi file as
16 > per the upgrade guide.
17
18 That's what I quoted in the last email. I haven't any clear reason to
19 modify the .fdi
20 file, since I'm running pretty much a standard USA-English setup here. I have a
21 short xorg.conf that I've sometimes tried, but not this time.
22
23 > Also, check that you only have xf86-video-r128 emerged and not xf86-video-ati
24 > and that you don't have any duplicate entries for radeon, ati, fglrx and what
25 > have you in your VIDEO_CARDS within /etc/make.conf.
26
27 VIDEO_CARDS is exactly as quoted above. There are 4 video drivers emerged,
28 which match those names. Nothing else.
29
30 >
31 > HTH.
32 > --
33 > Regards,
34 > Mick
35 >
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40 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD