Francisco Rivas skrev:
Hi all friends, I really like this situations because we learn so
much...I have to thank you to all for this experience...
Well we got a lot of work to do for help Johannes.
You fell confortable installing the ati-drivers manually?, if your
aswer is Yes, then:
1.- Disable all support for ati in the kernel
2.- Enable the framebuffer console like
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash, because I know (for sure) you
want a grubsplash and bootsplash :D :
3.- Unmerge all ati driver you have installed.
4.- Execute manually the installation and finally aticonfig --initial,
and startx.
Note : I have :
X.org <http://X.org> :
X Window System Version 7.1.1
Release Date: 12 May 2006
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1
Build Operating System: UNKNOWN
Current Operating System: Linux dta-desktop 2.6.21-gentoo #3 SMP
PREEMPT Wed May 9 17:07:22 VET 2007 i686
Build Date: 28 February 2007
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Kernel :
2.6.21-gentoo #3 SMP PREEMPT (but I has 2.6.20-r6,r7,r8) and it
works too.
Ati Card : ATI Mobility Radeon X1300
$fglrxinfo
OpenGL vendor string : ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string : ATI Mobility Radeon X1300
OpenGL version string : 2.0.6458 (8.36.5)
If your answer is No. Try with #ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge
ati-drivers, in my case is
* x11-apps/ati-drivers-extra
Latest version available: 8.33.6
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 57,246 kB
Homepage: http://www.ati.com <http://www.ati.com>
Description: Ati precompiled drivers extra application
License: ATI GPL-2 QPL-1.0
* x11-drivers/ati-drivers
Latest version available: 8.35.5
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 55,971 kB
Homepage: http://www.ati.com
Description: Ati precompiled drivers for recent chipsets
License: ATI GPL-2 QPL-1.0
Emerge the 8.35.5 and aticonfig --initial
I hope this help you...Please comment us your experience...
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Francisco Rivas
Linux User (New) : #448324
Linux Machine (New) : 355187
Hi everybody
Thanks for all the help so far,,, I'm embarrassed/sorry to say that non
of it really worked so far.
I recompile the kernel without any ati support and installed 8.35.5
driver without a problem.
But aticonfig claims it can't run because of an invalid xorg.conf file
and i can't generate a new one with 'Xorg -configure'
it just prints this error:
marvin / Xorg -configure
X Window System Version 7.2.0
Release Date: 22 January 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.2
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 i686
Current Operating System: Linux marvin 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 #6 SMP Fri May
11 17:52:
30 GMT 2007 i686
Build Date: 11 May 2007
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri May 11 23:11:24 2007
List of video drivers:
ati
atimisc
fglrx
radeon
savage
r128
Backtrace:
0: Xorg(xf86SigHandler+0x84) [0x80c7b64]
1: [0xffffe420]
2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so(atiddxProbeMain+0x13d)
[0xb74a5b1
d]
3: Xorg(DoConfigure+0x208) [0x80ca2e8]
4: Xorg(InitOutput+0x685) [0x809fae5]
5: Xorg(main+0x27b) [0x806e26b]
6: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd8) [0xb7c86838]
7: Xorg(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xa1) [0x806d7a1]
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
Aborted
Currently I'm supporting the theory that Young Sun is right, and that
the problem is the version of Xorg.
Tomorrow I will try to uninstall the compiled drivers from ati and try
the open source drivers. If that doesn't work
I'm feeling inclined to buy a new nvidia card instead.
Maybe I could also try to make the onboard S3 savage card work,
although I have never been a big fan of
graphic cards with shared memory.
Thanks again for all the help....
Johannes
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