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On Friday 06 Jul 2012 05:09:08 Christopher Lemire wrote: |
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> **This is what my laptop's screen with a newly installed Gentoo system |
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> running twm to test X looks like (attached image). It's distorted with |
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> overlapping and mirrored image. I have a Dell Latitude C800 with the video |
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> card. |
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> http://img6.imagebanana.com/img/qq4qz9jf/0705122206.jpg |
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> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee |
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> ATI Rage Mobility M4 AGP [1002:4d46] |
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> Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:00a3] |
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> Kernel driver in use: aty128fb |
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> Yes, I have compiled the r128 driver directly into the kernel. Various |
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> people around the internet had posted xorg.conf that was supposed "ati" as |
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> the driver. I do not have that driver. I substituted in the same xorg.conf |
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> with r128, and I still had the same issue. I tried with no xorg.conf (the |
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> default), and I couldn't startx, errored and crashed. I had also tried X |
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> -configure and had the same distorted screen. I know it is possible to get |
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> this working just fine. I had it working just fine in Arch Linux with r128. |
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> I really don't want to go back to using Arch. I already used fdisk on it to |
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> install this new Gentoo system. |
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You should still be able to startx with no xorg.conf, as long as you have KMS |
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built in the kernel, any firmware required for your card installed and |
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instructions followed closely here: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml |
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PS. 'ati' is the proprietary driver. Given the age of your card you probably |
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need 'radeon' specified in your make.conf. The above link explains the |
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necessary. |
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HTH. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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