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I have a Radeon X800 GTO (R480) and I had problems with Gnome 3, namely |
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it would not run in standard mode, |
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For that I had to enable modsetting on the kernel. |
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Device Drivers ---> |
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Graphics support ---> |
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Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) ---> |
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[*] Enable modesetting on radeon by default - NEW DRIVER |
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Hope this helps, |
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Clemente |
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Em 27-11-2012 23:08, Mick escreveu: |
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> On Tuesday 27 Nov 2012 17:18:43 design [depois das dez] wrote: |
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>> Fellow Gentooers, |
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>> although I am very happy running a Gentoo box, sometimes I bump into some |
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>> difficulties, esp. when updating packages. This time I am having a hard |
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>> time reconfiguring my video card, which was fine but is not anymore after |
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>> the last system update I've made. Gnome session goes up as usual but the |
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>> resolution is not fine and monitor complains about not being in the |
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>> recommended mode. |
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>> My video driver is an ATI Radeon 9600 (RV350) and somebody has already |
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>> updated the section on the Gentoo wiki |
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>> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon#Kernels_.3E.3D3.0.0 informing that |
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>> there might be incompatibilities concerning the RV350 firmware. I just |
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>> don't have enough understanding of the video related parts of the system to |
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>> tweak and fix this issue. How should I proceed when I have a problem of |
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>> this sort? |
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>> How do I know what is the video backend in my system? Is Xorg the only one |
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>> possible? What can I do to fix this problem? |
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> The link you provided says that you should disable framebuffer in your kernel |
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> config. Have you tried that? |
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