Hello David, daid kahl <daid...@gmail.com> writes:
> 2009/11/6 Roger Mason <rma...@mun.ca>: >> I have an intel iMac Core 2 Duo with an ATI radeon HD 2400 XT video >> card. I have not been able to get X working. >> > > I'm also running on an apple machine (macbook), so I might be able to > help. My video card is intel, so my settings won't be exactly the > same. > > The first point I suggest is to re-emerge all your x11-drivers/xf86 > files. Sometimes after an xorg update these need to be re-installed > (although it sounds like you are running on a clean install. Yes, a clean install. > Your make.conf settings look okay, but I wonder about > /etc/X11/xorg.conf and hal. Is hal installed and running (to run it > /etc/init.d/hald start or to add it to default rc-update add hal > default). hal should take care of the keyboard and mouse without any > extra configuration (special keys and trackpad scrolling extra > features aside. check out pommed for hotkey support in apple). > I recall that in xorg.conf the driver for my video card device was a > bit picky over what I told it. For me this was more an intel graphics > issue compared with xorg changes (it used to be under i810 and then it > was changed to intel, and so there is some mismatching sometimes in my > experience). Try a few options for this variable when you startx. > > Try these things (and shoot along xorg.conf) and let me know how it > goes. I unmerged ati-drivers and removed fglrx from make.conf then rebuilt xorg-server without hal. I was then able to generate an xorg.conf file using Xorg -configure. The generated file chose the vesa driver but after editing that to radeon it now works. I am not sure quite which step in the above was effective in providing a cure. Now that I have a working xorg.conf to which I can revert I will try again with hal and fglrx. I can't send the xorg.conf as I don't have access to the machine today. Many thanks for your help. Roger
