On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 07:30:32AM +0000, Mick wrote > Unless you are using a new radeon card you may need > sys-kernel/linux-firmware instead of radeon-ucode.
As I mentioned in my reply to Michael Mol, building mesa with the "llvm" USE flag does the trick. It appears the web pages http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml and http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml may be out of date. The video card shows up under lspci as... "ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]". According to the Gentoo web pages, it doesn't need a firmware blob at all. However, when booting, the PC said something about loading an R200 blob. It sat there for a minute, timed out, and went on to a standard VGA display. I emerged radeon-ucode and it came up with 62 files, including R200_cp.bin. I stuck that file into the "[*] Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary" option in the kernel, rebuilt, and it appears to work. Since this is an actual gentoo.org webpage, and not a wiki, I'll file a "documentation bug" at bugs.gentoo.org. The "torture test" will come this evening. I'm a paying subscriber to NHL Gamecenter Live. What prompted me to do all this work in the first place was the fact that the onboard Intel GPU couldn't quite keep up to a live hockey game in fullscreen mode. There was occasional stuttering of the video. I went to all this trouble in hopes of a better viewing experience. BTW, I have 2 Dell Dimension 530's. On the one with only the onboard GPU, glxgears shows just over 60 fps. On the one with the ATI card it's jumped to over 262 fps. Last minute note. DRM is *NOT* in effect. I'll be starting a separate thread on that. It's "an excellent adventure" in its own right. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
