Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-17 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 14:28 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 14:51 +1100, Adam Carter wrote: > > I use an xorg.conf, and have the following; > > > > Section "Files" > > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" > > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/" >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread Adam Carter
> > I use an xorg.conf, and have the following; > > > > Section "Files" > > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" > > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/" > > EndSection > > > > Your xorg cant find the dri and dri2 modules because its not looking in > > the second dire

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 14:51 +1100, Adam Carter wrote: > I use an xorg.conf, and have the following; > > Section "Files" > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/" > EndSection > > Your xorg cant find the dri and dri2 modules becaus

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > On 10/14/2010 01:58 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > >[...] > > > > You seem to have a HD 5700 card, even newer than the HD4XXX which is > > not yet supported. So I'd turn this option off and try again. > > Btw, on Gentoo testing (~arch), HD4000 cards are working very well,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread pk
On 2010-10-16 04:49, Jeff Cranmer wrote: I just noticed that I don't have a dri module either... :-/ -> fglrx has it's own dri module called fglrx_dri.so. Do you have this in your module path? Just noticed this in your later mail: (WW) fglrx(0): *** (W

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/14/2010 01:58 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: [...] You seem to have a HD 5700 card, even newer than the HD4XXX which is not yet supported. So I'd turn this option off and try again. Btw, on Gentoo testing (~arch), HD4000 cards are working very well, including hardware accelerated OpenGL and de

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Adam Carter writes: > I use an xorg.conf, and have the following; > > Section "Files" > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/" > EndSection > > Your xorg cant find the dri and dri2 modules because its not looking in > the second

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/16/2010 05:24 AM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: OK, so let's have a go at the ATI drivers again. First, get rid of the open source ati drivers emerge --unmerge -av radeon-ucode xf86-video-ati Editing the /etc/make.conf file to change the last line to VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx" Make sure you use this: V

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread pk
On 2010-10-16 04:24, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > OK, so let's have a go at the ATI drivers again. > > First, get rid of the open source ati drivers > emerge --unmerge -av radeon-ucode xf86-video-ati Why? Unless you have problems with space I'd keep it because eventually there will be support for your c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-15 Thread Adam Carter
I use an xorg.conf, and have the following; Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/" EndSection Your xorg cant find the dri and dri2 modules because its not looking in the second directory. Also, it might be worth tr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 22:24 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > OK, so let's have a go at the ATI drivers again. > > First, get rid of the open source ati drivers > emerge --unmerge -av radeon-ucode xf86-video-ati > > Editing the /etc/make.conf file to change the last line to > VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx" > the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
OK, so let's have a go at the ATI drivers again. First, get rid of the open source ati drivers emerge --unmerge -av radeon-ucode xf86-video-ati Editing the /etc/make.conf file to change the last line to VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx" then running emerge -NDuav system changes the mesa driver so that I have n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 10:32 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > You mentioned that you used "fglrxinfo" in your post, which assumes > you're using the closed source driver :-/ Another hint was that you're > using an HD5000 series card, which is not supported correctly by the > open source dri

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Jeff Cranmer writes: > Regarding eselect, I used eselect opengl xorg-xll to select the open > source driver instead of ati. I think this is correct? Sounds right. > The kernel options are configured as follows > > Device Drivers -> > Generic Driver Options -> > <*> Userspace firmware loadi

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/14/2010 04:23 AM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 17:06 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Forgot one last thing. After you do what I described in my other post, make sure to execute: eselect opengl set ati Hi Nikos, Thanks for the advice. I think that the instructions that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-13 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 17:06 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Forgot one last thing. After you do what I described in my other post, > make sure to execute: > > eselect opengl set ati > > Hi Nikos, Thanks for the advice. I think that the instructions that you're providing, however, are for

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/13/2010 02:41 AM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Hi, I have a Sapphire Radeon HD5750 graphics card installed on my Gentoo box, and I'm having some difficulty configuring it. When I run fglrxinfo, I get the OpenGL messages for a basic Mesa driver. I've attached the xorg.conf file, the Xorg.0.log fil

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/13/2010 02:41 AM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Hi, I have a Sapphire Radeon HD5750 graphics card installed on my Gentoo box, and I'm having some difficulty configuring it. When I run fglrxinfo, I get the OpenGL messages for a basic Mesa driver. I've attached the xorg.conf file, the Xorg.0.log fil