Gregory Shearman <zekeyg <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Are you using kernel modesetting? If you are then you have to get your > microcode built into the kernel. Not sure, can you be more specific on "modesetting" as grepping the /usr/src/linux/.config does not find anything, so I'm not exactly sure what "modesetting" refers to.... Nothing under the "Generic Driver section of the kernels I have been using has changed. The kernel worked before I began following web pages and notes from this list on removing hald and the hal flag from the system. I did rebuild the kernel-2.6.36-gentoo-r5 after these hal purge exercises began..... CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="/sbin/hotplug" # CONFIG_DEVTMPFS is not set CONFIG_STANDALONE=y CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="" > You need CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE, and provide the filenames of the > firmware you require (in the form of a space delimited string) to run > your graphics card. Here are the setting from .config, as they always have been: (I'd prefer not to use modsetting, unless provided a GOOD reason to use it?) CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="/sbin/hotplug" # CONFIG_DEVTMPFS is not set CONFIG_STANDALONE=y CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=""
