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Dear Gentooers, |
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I need your help, because I just cannot get X to run on my new PC with ATI |
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Radeon HD 3200 on-board graphics. What now? |
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I tried all sorts of ati-drivers, most (if any) did not compile. But that |
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was because of tuxonice-2.6.29, so I downgraded to the stable |
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tuxonice-sources-2.6.24-r9. |
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With ati-drivers 8.552-r2, X starts, but the mouse cursor does not move, nor |
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does the keyboard do anything. At least I can switch back to the text |
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console after pressing Alt-SysRq-R (this resets the keyboard), but only |
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once. |
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With 8.501 and 8.542, X does not start due to "undefined symbol: |
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miZeroLineScreenIndex" in fglrx_drv.so. |
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With radeonhd, X starts, but there is no mouse, and the keyboard does not |
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work, even after the SysRq trick. |
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With plain radeon... I don't remember exactly, but it didn't work either. |
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I also downloaded ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run directly from the |
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ATI site, it did not work better. |
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With vesa, I get the same result as with ati-drivers-8.552-r2. Strange, |
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shouldn't this always just work? I thought the problem might be the new X |
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1.5, so I downgraded xorg-server to 1.3. I get similar errors for |
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ati-drivers. With vesa, radeon or radeonhd, X does not start any more, the |
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X log tells me about module version errors. I guess I need to |
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emerge -DautvN @world and rebuild the whole X stuff, but this fails due to |
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slot conflicts with x11-libs/libXrender and x11-proto/renderproto: |
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!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled |
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!!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: |
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x11-libs/libXrender:0 |
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('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.2', 'merge') pulled in by |
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<x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.3 required by |
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('ebuild', '/', 'x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r6', 'merge') |
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(and 25 more) |
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('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.4', 'merge') pulled in by |
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x11-libs/libXrender required by |
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('installed', '/', 'kde-base/plasma-workspace-4.2.1-r1', 'nomerge') |
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x11-libs/libXrender required by |
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('installed', '/', 'www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.8', 'nomerge') |
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x11-libs/libXrender required by |
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('installed', '/', 'kde-base/ksysguard-4.2.1', 'nomerge') |
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(and 22 more) |
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[...] |
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So, libXrender 0.9.2 is needed by the old X, while KDE 4.2 stuff needs |
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0.9.4? |
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I'm out of ideas now. Do you have any advice? A friend also has trouble with |
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her Radeon X1550 card. It used to work a wile ago, but after someupdates |
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(mainly the kernel), it doesn't, and even the old drivers that used to |
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work, compiled with the old kernel, do not work any more. But I did not dig |
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too dep into that, as I hoped I could get X to work on my new PC and then |
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use this setup for hers. |
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Wonko |
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