On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Dave Airlie <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: >>> OK, so I'm searching around for instructions on doing right this but >>> I'm not finding them yet. That's leaving me poking around and of >>> course that never goes well. I'll post some data and keep some records >>> in case others try this again later. I don't want to post here too >>> much and wear out my welcome but I really want to see a desktop today >>> if possible. >> >> Don't use radeonhd, use -ati or radeon (same thing) >> >> Also get a really recent kernel with evergreen support for KMS, the UMS >> support isn't great and will probbaby remain sub-par. >> >> Dave. >> > > Dave, > Thanks. I'll switch back to radeon. > > As for my kernel I'm on gentoo-sources-2.6.33-r1 which is the > newest available through portage. Are you suggesting I have to go > checkout something from kernel.org to make this work? I've got the > Radeon KMS stuff set as modular. Do I need to enable it at boot time? > On my i915 I do it like this in grub: >
you need 2.6.34. > kernel (hd0,6)/boot/bzImage-2.6.33-gentoo root=/dev/sda2 i915.modeset=1 > KMS is enabled by default in 2.6.33+. Just make sure you have libdrm_radeon and xf86-video-ati (radeon) with kms support. Alex > Recompiling for radeon instead of radeonhd. Back in awhile. > > Thanks, > Mark > _______________________________________________ > xorg-driver-ati mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati > _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
