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On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 22:24 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote: |
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> OK, so let's have a go at the ATI drivers again. |
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> First, get rid of the open source ati drivers |
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> emerge --unmerge -av radeon-ucode xf86-video-ati |
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> Editing the /etc/make.conf file to change the last line to |
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> VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx" |
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> then running emerge -NDuav system changes the mesa driver so that I have |
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> no valid selections for "VIDEO_CARDS=", so I'll unmerge mesa |
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> emerge --unmerge -av mesa |
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> running emerge -NDuav world identified the xorg-drivers and pm-utils |
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> packages that have changed, and attempts to re-emerge mesa, so I'll |
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> unmerge those two |
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> emerge --unmerge -av xorg-drivers pm-utils |
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> moving on to the kernel, I verify that I have the correct kernel |
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> parameters: |
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> Device drivers -> |
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> Graphics Support -> |
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> <*> dev/agpgart (AGP support) |
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> None of the other modules below the agpgart appear to be appropriate, so |
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> I'll not enable any of these. |
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> Disable the direct rendering manager and framebuffer support, so this |
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> should take care of the radeon driver module. I'll do a locate search |
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> for this before I reboot. |
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> |
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> > Device Drivers -> |
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> > Generic Driver Options -> |
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> > < > Userspace firmware loading support |
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> > [ ] Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary |
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> Recompile the kernel and update using grub. |
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> emerge ati-drivers |
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> It seems this was still present from the previous attempt, so I'll |
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> re-emerge it. |
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> Running emerge -NDuav system still pulls in mesa, so back in it goes. |
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> Running emerge -NDuav world pulls back in xorg-drivers and pm-utils, so |
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> these are also reinstalled. |
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> emerge --depclean pulls out a few packages, |
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> radeontool |
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> gst-plugins-v4l |
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> gst-plugins-v4l2 |
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> gentoo-sources-2.6.34-r6 |
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> since gentoo-sources-2.6.34-r6 is the kernel I'm presently operating |
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> with, I'll re-emerge that and verify that it is still current via |
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> eselect kernel list. |
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> revdep-rebuild doesn't add anything else. |
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> Prevent boot-up into X-windows, then reboot. |
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> rc-update del xdm default |
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> reboot |
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> run aticonfig --initial to create an xorg.conf file. |
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> startx |
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> total system crash - hard reset required to reboot. |
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> Hmm - the xorg.log file has this error. |
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> atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized. |
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> Can anyone shed light on this? |
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> Thanks |
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> Jeff |
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Oops - forgot to eselect opengl set ati |
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Now it's still failing, but a different set of errors, as attached. |
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Any suggestions gratefully received. |
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