On Saturday 06 March 2010 18:43:15 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Samstag 06 März 2010, Mick wrote:
> > On Saturday 06 March 2010 16:08:05 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > > On Samstag 06 März 2010, Mick wrote:
> > > > I first tried radeonhd, but Xorg.0.log complained that it couldn't
> > > > find the ati module, so I added radeon in VIDEO_CARDS and it now
> > > > comes up with this error:
> > > > ===========================================
> > > > (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/r600_dri.so failed
> > > > (/usr/lib64/dri/r600_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
> > > > file or directory)
> > > > (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
> > > > ===========================================
> > > >
> > > > Have you seen this before?  Any idea what I should tweak now to get
> > > > this going?
> > >
> > > mesa. You need to install mesa with the right flags.
> >
> > Thanks Volker,
> >
> > I had installed mesa with the radeon flag already, but now I just
> > unmasked/updated it to 2.4.8 and the above error is gone!
> >
> > However, still no X.  :-(
> >
> > I have also added mouse and synaptics, after initially trying with only
> > evdev in my INPUT_DEVICES.  So now it looks like this:
> >
> > INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev"
> >
> > When I added synaptics I got an error about RECORD being disabled because
> > it is broken.  I attach my logs in case there is something in there
> > showing why this is not working and I can't see it.
> 
> RECORD does not matter.
> 
> > I can't explain why both Knoppix and Sysrescue CDs work fine and my
> > Gentoo build does not.  I even used their xorg.conf as a guide and still
> > no joy. I noticed this message (with no xorg.conf):
> 
> yeah. please create a xorg.conf. Depending on hal is nice and dandy in
>  theory. But so does not work for many people.

Hmm, can't make it work after multiple attempts of creating and editing a 
xorg.conf.  I think that the problem is with the drivers and perhaps the 
versions of xorg-server and or mesa.  I am using the latest testing of 
everything and unmasked any dependencies that they had.

Tomorrow I will have a go at the fglrx.  This is doing my head in ...
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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