Johannes my friend.. and all list..

If I live near to you I will go to your pc and try personaly but It's not
possible, so please we try later, when fell good try, no matter how many
time take this, really. I think the most imortant thing is try sometimes.
But we do a better work, and this is the main idea of the list. Believe me a
lot of people here can help you and I am so sure they will do.

Thanks for let us help you :D..

Message to all list : We have a work to do: Help people!. The wrold need
person like us, people help people to be better. Smile and have a nice very
nice day.

On 5/15/07, Johannes Skov Frandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi everybody

Tried and failed... again!

Everything installs nicely... but 'ati-config --initial' won't work
without
a valid 'xorg.conf' file as input.

The one that it do generates when I give it the one that works with the
opensource driver
don't allow me to run startx. It claims it can't find a monitor and the
graphic card driver.

I read on Slashdot that AMD plans to deliver future ati drivers as
opensource. Let's hope that makes thinks easy for everybody. I want bother
anymore with this graphic card. The opensource driver works decently, and
I
will start to look in to other things that are annoying me; like why I
can't
emerge vlc and why I can't get rhythmbox to play mp3.

PS

To Francisco...

Sorry for bailing out... It has been a big boost to my moral when trying
to
solve this problem, having enthusiastic and dedicated people like yourself
guiding and helping me. I will strive to be just as dedicated when my
experience reaches a level where I can be of help for this list.

Regards
Johannes Skov Frandsen

-----Original Message-----
From: Aleksandar L. Dimitrov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 12. maj 2007 21:26
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X

On Sat, 12 May 2007 11:34:39 -0400
"Francisco Rivas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi friends, Johannes bro.. I can't give up with that, I know we can
> solve your problem, I feel it :D
>

Watch out, or you'll end up as a case for the Scary Devil Monastery.
I've probably already reached this point. :)

> The most important thing is try, one more try and it's enough..
>
> Uninstall the xserver, unistall the ati drivers
> check all configurations of your kernel..
> Install xserver 7.1 and 8.36.5  ati driver manually.. run aticonfig
> --initial
>

The Xorg-Server version 1.3 is still in the testing branch, so you
might do better with the following command:

VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx" emerge -va =x11-base/xorg-server-1.2.0-r3

Then follow the already given instructions, i.e. install the version of
the driver ATI recommends

emerge -C ati-drivers && emerge -va =x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.28.8

and then remove your xorg.conf. Not remove of course, but just rename
it to a backup file. Then go on with ati-config --initial. It could
mourn about a missing X.conf, but I think it should really make one up,
no matter if there's already one or not. Running ati-config --initial
on any unclean xorg.conf could really make a mess out of it anyways
(multiple Server/Device/Monitor entries... that can be quite a nuisance
to get rid of!).

If you need any OpenGL-stuff (quite a chance you do...) this can be
discussed later on. Let's first get it to work at all :)

Regards, Aleks

PS: that's like the standard ritual for being accepted as someone
familiar with the basics of Linux: going to xorg.conf hell... once you
get used to it, it's easy. If you experience any trouble you could as
well just post it here, so we can have a look at it.
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