[gentoo-user] Video Card of Death! (Yes its on topic.)

[Ian Kabeary]

Hi there,
My laptop has a Radeon 9100. Toshiba advertised a 9000 so at the time I was
happy. Then I realized that the proprietary ATi drivers dont give this card
3d acceleration, which it is totally capable of. Anyway, I tried the wiki
instructions on getting this card to work but they are quite cryptic the way
they have written them. It kind of branches off into three different ways of
doing it, but you never know what reading to skip and what to do.

I got reasonably far. What I did was take the support for the direct
rendering manager out of the kernel, while including the Radeon driver and
other associated things. For the purposes of this support request, I do not
believe they are completely relevant. After doing what I think it was that I
should do, I started X. (I have 7.1.1 by the way). What I end up with is
that it cant find the drivers because the version of the radeon driver
version doesn't match the server version or something? I have no idea what
that means.

Projects use waaaay different versioning systems. Seriously, I have no clue
what its going on about! :) Is this a cryptic way of saying the driver wants
Xorg < 7.0?
Thanks so much everyone!
~Ian