2012/11/28 Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> > On Tuesday 27 Nov 2012 17:18:43 design [depois das dez] wrote: > > Fellow Gentooers, > > > > although I am very happy running a Gentoo box, sometimes I bump into some > > difficulties, esp. when updating packages. This time I am having a hard > > time reconfiguring my video card, which was fine but is not anymore after > > the last system update I've made. Gnome session goes up as usual but the > > resolution is not fine and monitor complains about not being in the > > recommended mode. > > > > My video driver is an ATI Radeon 9600 (RV350) and somebody has already > > updated the section on the Gentoo wiki > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon#Kernels_.3E.3D3.0.0 informing that > > there might be incompatibilities concerning the RV350 firmware. I just > > don't have enough understanding of the video related parts of the system > to > > tweak and fix this issue. How should I proceed when I have a problem of > > this sort? > > > > How do I know what is the video backend in my system? Is Xorg the only > one > > possible? What can I do to fix this problem? > > The link you provided says that you should disable framebuffer in your > kernel > config. Have you tried that? > > -- > Regards, > Mick >
Hi, I have the same video card as yours (ATI 9600 RV350) on my old laptop and tried the new driver by enabling "modesetting on radeon by default". Device Drivers -> Graphic support -> Direct Rendering Manager (y) -> ATI Radeon (y) -> Enable Modesetting on radeon by default (y). I installed the sys-kernel/linux-firmware package, and enabled include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary Device Drivers -> Generic Driver Options -> include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary (y) I let empty "External firmware blobs to build into the kernel binary". It did not work until i disabled ALL the drivers in "Support for frame buffer devices". Device Drivers -> Graphic support -> Support for frame buffer devices. I hope that will help. Regards, -- Jacques
