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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Xorg going on Radeon HD R730 4670
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:10:15
Message-Id: 4B93EBE3.2030305@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Xorg going on Radeon HD R730 4670 by Mick
1 Mick wrote:
2 > On Sunday 07 March 2010 11:09:22 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 >
4 >> On Sonntag 07 März 2010, Mick wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> On Sunday 07 March 2010 02:21:39 Dale wrote:
7 >>>
8 >>>> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
9 >>>>
10 >>>>> On Sonntag 07 März 2010, Mick wrote:
11 >>>>>
12 >>>>>> Tomorrow I will have a go at the fglrx. This is doing my head in
13 >>>>>> ...
14 >>>>>>
15 >>>>> fglrx won't have any influence on your INPUT DRIVER based problem.
16 >>>>> After emerging the latest xorg-server, did you rebuilt the input
17 >>>>> drivers?
18 >>>>>
19 >>> Yes (I have rebuilt everything so many times I have lost count).
20 >>>
21 >>>
22 >>>> If you did, you may want to disable hal and try it without it.
23 >>>>
24 >>> I've recompiled xorg-server-1.7.5 without HAL and also the synaptics
25 >>> driver. For good measure I rebuilt all xf76-input and video drivers
26 >>> (although they were not affected by hal).
27 >>>
28 >>> It doesn't work, with or without HAL.
29 >>>
30 >>> I attach the latest xorg.conf and the Xorg.0.log. Comparing with Knoppix
31 >>> which works nicely, I see that in my logs the lines:
32 >>> ==========================================
33 >>> (II) LoadModule: "ati"
34 >>> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ati_drv.so
35 >>> (II) Module ati: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
36 >>> compiled for 1.7.4, module version = 6.12.4
37 >>> Module class: X.Org Video Driver
38 >>> ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 6.0
39 >>> ==========================================
40 >>>
41 >>> just before load module "radeon" are absent. Could this have something
42 >>> to do with it? Knoppix is running 32bit kernel.
43 >>>
44 >>> Also, I noticed that Knoppix picks up additional devices (webcam, etc)
45 >>> under KEYBOARD. Not sure if this relevant, but mine seems to bail out
46 >>> after it detects the Keyboard.
47 >>>
48 >> please post your xorg.conf
49 >>
50 > I already did, but just in case, here is my latest effort, along with the
51 > Xorg.0.log. I am not (yet) convinced that this is a HAL problem.
52 >
53
54 If you disabled hal and it didn't work, it most likely isn't hal. I
55 couldn't get hal to work but as soon as I disabled hal and recompiled
56 xorg, everything worked fine. That is my thinking at least.
57
58 Dale
59
60 :-) :-)