Ok! Thanks to all who offered suggestions. I finally got it working. Bottom line was, you need to re-emerge Xorg to get it working.
I noticed this line while emerging xorg: * Switching to ati OpenGL interface... >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... I then re-emerged the ati-drivers which turned out to be a mistake. During my desperate attempts to get it working I forgot I had installed the drivers which I downloaded directly from ATI. So re-emerging the ati-drivers which are a few versions behind the official drivers caused a "incompatible kernel module, direct rendering will not work" error when starting X. No problem, I simply re-installed the drivers downloaded direct from ATI and now everything is working including direct rendering! I think some notes should be made on the ATI-FAQ about re-emerging Xorg. I'll send a note to wedge__ AT fastmail.fm. -- John Lange On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 04:38 +0200, Sergio Polini wrote: > John Lange: > > Note the dates in: > > > > /usr/lib/modules/extensions/ > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 16580 Apr 10 17:38 libdbe.a > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 32470 Apr 10 17:38 libdri.a > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 167396 Apr 10 17:38 libextmod.a > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 651460 Apr 10 18:20 libglx.so.1.0.7174 > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 25688 Apr 10 17:38 librecord.a > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 39306 Apr 10 17:38 libxtrap.a > > > > nothing new in a while.... Does Xorg need to be re-emerged to get > > this working? > > I think so. My dates (as you can see in my previuos message) are "Aug > 6". > Looking for "Aug 06" in /var/log/emerge.log, I've found: > - nvidia-kernel: not emerged on Aug 6 > - nvidia-glx: not emerged on Aug 6 > - opengl-update: not emerged on Aug 6 > - xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2: emerged on Aug 6 > > HTH > Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
