On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > On 06/25/2009 04:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>> I thought emerge xf86-video-ati, then swapping Driver "flgrx" to Driver >>> "radeon" in xorg.conf was all that is required?? >> >> No, I need a new kernel also. The kernel on this machine is 2 years >> old. Also, I have about a dozen packages masked so I've unmasked those >> and will need to get the whole machine up to date. >> >> None the less I'm happy to do it if there's any chance it will work. > > If it works, better make sure you keep the system up to date. Gentoo will > bark and bite you at some point if you don't; I'm sure you figured that out > by now :P >
Except for being forced into all these old kernel and video packages the machine has been kept up to date. Now it will be completely up to date. :-) The new kernel booted the first time and except for me forgetting to enable the correct NIC things looked good. I added the 3c590 and now can get to it over ssh. emerge -DuN @world will take a few hours as there are a number of packages to update. Tomorrow I will delve into the newer Open Source ATI driver and see how things go. Wish me luck. cheers, Mark
