Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes:
My experience is that it works partially. When I have used radeonfb
with fglrx, everything starts normally, including X and KDE. But if I
try to switch to a console (or shutdown the system!), the system hangs
with a corrupted display. So yes,
Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes:
No. Why do you think this? You only need xorg (merged with +opengl),
the radeon driver plus the appropriate DRI section in your xorg.conf
file, and the radeon DRM/DRI kernel module configured and loaded.
Any other way to get opengl working
abhay abhay.ilugd at gmail.com writes:
Any other way to get opengl working with the radeon kernel driver?
Should/can I use ati-drivers? or should I stick with the radeon
supplied binary driver?
You can always compile without opengl support by using -opengl flag or you
can
try to use
abhay abhay.ilugd at gmail.com writes:
When you compiled ati drivers did you enable opengl use flag? you can check
by
passing this command.
This was a over a year ago, so I do not recall the details of getting xorg
and the ati 7500 video driver to work.
emerge -pv ati-drivers
On System
abhay abhay.ilugd at gmail.com writes:
I'm not so sure. I have a second system with the same (USE) flags
set, and mythtv installs but vlc fails without the GL error:
make[2]: Entering
directory`/var/tmp/portage/vlc-0.8.1-r1/work/vlc-0.8.1/mozilla'
usr/bin/xpidl
On 11/10/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
abhay abhay.ilugd at gmail.com writes:
Do you use vlc in mozilla to play videos? If you don't, then pass -mozilla
use flag for vlc on this system.
FWIW, emerge -pv vlc on my machine shows an nsplugin, but not a
mozilla use flag. Try it with
James schreef:
Hmmm. I not sure I did compile the ati-drivers:
media-video/ati-drivers Available versions: 8.14.13-r2 [M]8.14.13-r3
8.14.13-r4 8.14.13-r5 *8.16.20 *8.16.20-r1 8.18.6 8.18.6-r1 8.18.8
8.18.8-r1 Installed: none
Well, depending on which ATI video card you have,
ellotheth rimmwen ellotheth at gmail.com writes:
Do you use vlc in mozilla to play videos? If you don't, then
pass -mozilla use flag for vlc on this system.
FWIW, emerge -pv vlc on my machine shows an nsplugin, but not a
mozilla use flag. Try it with -nsplugin, p'raps?
Yes you are
Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes:
Well, depending on which ATI video card you have, the ati-driver package
may be the only one which supplies OpenGL for your video card's chipset
(above the 9250 must use the drivers, 9250 and below can use the kernel
'radeon' driver and X.org MESA to
On Friday 11 Nov 2005 12:22 am, James wrote:
lscpi reveals:
:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf
[Radeon Mobility 9000 M9] (rev 01)
So I need to add MESA to get OpenGL fixed?
media-libs/mesa [ Masked ]
Latest version available: 6.4
On 11/10/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf
[Radeon Mobility 9000 M9] (rev 01)
So I need to add MESA to get OpenGL fixed?
No. Why do you think this? You only need xorg (merged with +opengl),
the radeon driver plus
Richard Fish schreef:
If you want to try the ati-drivers, generally you just need to merge
the package and change the Driver setting in xorg.conf from radeon
to fglrx.
Not completely true; the ati-driver module (fglrx) will not work if the
kernel DRM is compiled (either as a module or
On 11/10/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Richard Fish schreef:
If you want to try the ati-drivers, generally you just need to merge
the package and change the Driver setting in xorg.conf from radeon
to fglrx.
Not completely true; the ati-driver module (fglrx) will not work if
abhay abhay.ilugd at gmail.com writes:
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/
ld: cannot find -lGL
I know 'GL' is not a use flag, but I cannot seem to find what i need to
install to fix this problem. Or the package that contains GL. I run KDE
3.4.
abhay abhay.ilugd at gmail.com writes:
On Thursday 10 Nov 2005 1:22 am, James wrote:
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/../
../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/
ld: cannot find -lGL
You are having problems with OpenGL. Did you compile
xorg with opengl support?
What is the output of
On Thursday 10 Nov 2005 2:38 am, James wrote:
I tried to install mythtv and it failed because of -lGL. I then tried to
update vlc, and it failed with the error message above.
When you compiled ati drivers did you enable opengl use flag? you can check by
passing this command.
emerge -pv
On Thursday 10 Nov 2005 7:31 am, James wrote:
I'm not so sure. I have a second system with the same (USE) flags
set, and mythtv installs but vlc fails without the GL error:
make[2]: Entering
directory`/var/tmp/portage/vlc-0.8.1-r1/work/vlc-0.8.1/mozilla'
usr/bin/xpidl
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