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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.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 01:08:17
Message-Id: 201003070207.41612.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Xorg going on Radeon HD R730 4670 by Mick
1 On Sonntag 07 März 2010, Mick wrote:
2 > On Saturday 06 March 2010 18:43:15 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > On Samstag 06 März 2010, Mick wrote:
4 > > > On Saturday 06 March 2010 16:08:05 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
5 > > > > On Samstag 06 März 2010, Mick wrote:
6 > > > > > I first tried radeonhd, but Xorg.0.log complained that it couldn't
7 > > > > > find the ati module, so I added radeon in VIDEO_CARDS and it now
8 > > > > > comes up with this error:
9 > > > > > ===========================================
10 > > > > > (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/r600_dri.so failed
11 > > > > > (/usr/lib64/dri/r600_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No
12 > > > > > such file or directory)
13 > > > > > (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
14 > > > > > ===========================================
15 > > > > >
16 > > > > > Have you seen this before? Any idea what I should tweak now to get
17 > > > > > this going?
18 > > > >
19 > > > > mesa. You need to install mesa with the right flags.
20 > > >
21 > > > Thanks Volker,
22 > > >
23 > > > I had installed mesa with the radeon flag already, but now I just
24 > > > unmasked/updated it to 2.4.8 and the above error is gone!
25 > > >
26 > > > However, still no X. :-(
27 > > >
28 > > > I have also added mouse and synaptics, after initially trying with only
29 > > > evdev in my INPUT_DEVICES. So now it looks like this:
30 > > >
31 > > > INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev"
32 > > >
33 > > > When I added synaptics I got an error about RECORD being disabled
34 > > > because it is broken. I attach my logs in case there is something in
35 > > > there showing why this is not working and I can't see it.
36 > >
37 > > RECORD does not matter.
38 > >
39 > > > I can't explain why both Knoppix and Sysrescue CDs work fine and my
40 > > > Gentoo build does not. I even used their xorg.conf as a guide and
41 > > > still
42 > >
43 > > > no joy. I noticed this message (with no xorg.conf):
44 > > yeah. please create a xorg.conf. Depending on hal is nice and dandy in
45 > >
46 > > theory. But so does not work for many people.
47 >
48 > Hmm, can't make it work after multiple attempts of creating and editing a
49 > xorg.conf. I think that the problem is with the drivers and perhaps the
50 > versions of xorg-server and or mesa. I am using the latest testing of
51 > everything and unmasked any dependencies that they had.
52 >
53 > Tomorrow I will have a go at the fglrx. This is doing my head in ...
54
55 fglrx won't have any influence on your INPUT DRIVER based problem. After
56 emerging the latest xorg-server, did you rebuilt the input drivers?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Xorg going on Radeon HD R730 4670 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>