Re: [blfs-support] nouveau to radeon transition help needed

2011-12-07 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 07:33 +, luxInteg wrote: > Thanks for the reply. I now have it working of sorts Xwindows refusing to > start was due to a typo (twn instead of twm) in .xinitrc. I still have > keyboard errors ( for a gb/qwerty layout) > and monitor resolution clipped at 1024x768. S

Re: [blfs-support] nouveau to radeon transition help needed

2011-12-06 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:09:53 -0600 DJ Lucas wrote: > On 12/06/2011 09:58 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > My current install (in /usr - ISTR you have used different prefixes > > in the past - with the 1.11.2 server) uses /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d > > although the (now old) wiki documentation I've rea

Re: [blfs-support] nouveau to radeon transition help needed

2011-12-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 06:09:53PM -0600, DJ Lucas wrote: > On 12/06/2011 09:58 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > My current install (in /usr - ISTR you have used different prefixes > > in the past - with the 1.11.2 server) uses /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d > > although the (now old) wiki documentation

Re: [blfs-support] nouveau to radeon transition help needed

2011-12-06 Thread DJ Lucas
On 12/06/2011 09:58 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 07:35:09AM +, luxInteg wrote: >> >> I still have resolutions limited to 1024 x768 and yes I have monitors capable >> of higher resulitions ) and I have keyboard errors. For instance for >> keyboard tweaking I tried to p

Re: [blfs-support] nouveau to radeon transition help needed

2011-12-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 07:35:09AM +, luxInteg wrote: > > I still have resolutions limited to 1024 x768 and yes I have monitors capable > of higher resulitions ) and I have keyboard errors. For instance for > keyboard tweaking I tried to put stuff in /etc/X11/xog.conf.d using this

Re: [blfs-support] nouveau to radeon transition help needed

2011-12-06 Thread Martin Ward
On 06/12/11 07:35, luxInteg wrote: > > > Thanks for your help. I am using xf86-video-ati-6.14.0 and it now seems to > be working. Failure was due to a typo in .xinitrc (twn instead of twm). > > I still have resolutions limited to 1024 x768 and yes I have monitors capable > of higher resulitions )

Re: [blfs-support] nouveau to radeon transition help needed

2011-12-05 Thread luxInteg
On Sunday 04 December 2011 05:05:14 Ken Moffat wrote: > Similarly, your 7.6 driver might be too old (I don't know, because > I can't identify this hardware). I think your best way forward is > to try the current ati driver on the 7.6 system, i.e. > xf86-video-ati-6.14.3. You might have to updat

Re: [blfs-support] nouveau to radeon transition help needed

2011-12-05 Thread luxInteg
On Sunday 04 December 2011 07:49:54 Simon Geard wrote: > > According to the X output, the driver has recognised it as "ATI Radeon > 3000 Graphics". I've got no experience with those, but it's not exactly > bleeding-edge hardware - I'd expect it to be pretty well supported. I'd > guess something's

Re: [blfs-support] nouveau to radeon transition help needed

2011-12-05 Thread luxInteg
On Sunday 04 December 2011 01:36:06 Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > On 04/12/11 01:33, luxInteg wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I have never used ati/radeon graphic cards on amd64 until now. I have > > used nvidia gpu's with the opensource nouveau driver. My baptism with > > ati/radeon/amd64 is proving a

Re: [blfs-support] nouveau to radeon transition help needed

2011-12-04 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 3 Dec 2011 14:33:38 + luxInteg wrote: > Greetings, > > I have never used ati/radeon graphic cards on amd64 until now. I have used > nvidia gpu's with the opensource nouveau driver. My baptism with > ati/radeon/amd64 is proving a little difficult hence thie email soliciting > hel

Re: [blfs-support] nouveau to radeon transition help needed

2011-12-03 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 05:05 +, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 02:33:38PM +, luxInteg wrote: > > The setup I current have has these:- > > -motherboard msi-760gsm-e51 with integrated radeon gpu > > -cpu: amd64 3cores > > -RAM 8 Gbytes. > > > > Google seems to be particularly

Re: [blfs-support] nouveau to radeon transition help needed

2011-12-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 02:33:38PM +, luxInteg wrote: > Greetings, > > I have never used ati/radeon graphic cards on amd64 until now. I have used > nvidia gpu's with the opensource nouveau driver. My baptism with > ati/radeon/amd64 is proving a little difficult hence thie email soliciting

Re: [blfs-support] nouveau to radeon transition help needed

2011-12-03 Thread Wayne Blaszczyk
On 04/12/11 01:33, luxInteg wrote: > Greetings, > > I have never used ati/radeon graphic cards on amd64 until now. I have used > nvidia gpu's with the opensource nouveau driver. My baptism with > ati/radeon/amd64 is proving a little difficult hence thie email soliciting > help. > advice

[blfs-support] nouveau to radeon transition help needed

2011-12-03 Thread luxInteg
Greetings, I have never used ati/radeon graphic cards on amd64 until now. I have used nvidia gpu's with the opensource nouveau driver. My baptism with ati/radeon/amd64 is proving a little difficult hence thie email soliciting help. The setup I current have has these:- -motherboard msi-760g