Re: [gentoo-user] can't get accelerated opengl renderer ati radeon xpress 200M

[Tony Miller]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:25:21AM +0200, Marc Joliet wrote:
> Am Tue, 6 Apr 2010 13:12:39 -0700
> schrieb Tony Miller <mcfiredrill@×××××.com>:
>
> I also have an empty xorg.conf, maybe it's worth trying it out. Perhaps you
> just have a bad combination of options (even if you got them from the "official"
> documentation)?
>

Tried an empty xorg.conf, still getting same error in Xorg.log and
Software Renderer for OpenGl Renderer.
> > If anyone has any idea, please let me know. Would posting to the xorg
> > or radeon mailing lists be good places for help as well?
>
> I have one idea: which Kernel are you using? I have gentoo-sources-2.6.33
> installed. I read that the radeon devs recommend to use kernel versions >=2.6.33
> for KMS instead of 2.6.32.
>
I also have 2.6.33.
> Just goes to show how different ones experience with the same software can be.
> For me and my HD4650 (r6xx) it was smooth sailing: I followed Gentoos 3D
> acceleration guide and just needed to install the radeon-ucode package and
> everything "just worked".

Yeah, wish I could afford a different card, this one is being pretty
difficult it seems.

-Tony