Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-17 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 14:28 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 14:51 +1100, Adam Carter wrote: I use an xorg.conf, and have the following; Section Files ModulePath /usr/lib64/xorg/modules ModulePath /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/ EndSection

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread pk
On 2010-10-16 04:24, Jeff Cranmer wrote: OK, so let's have a go at the ATI drivers again. First, get rid of the open source ati drivers emerge --unmerge -av radeon-ucode xf86-video-ati Why? Unless you have problems with space I'd keep it because eventually there will be support for your

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/16/2010 05:24 AM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: OK, so let's have a go at the ATI drivers again. First, get rid of the open source ati drivers emerge --unmerge -av radeon-ucode xf86-video-ati Editing the /etc/make.conf file to change the last line to VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx Make sure you use this:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Adam Carter writes: I use an xorg.conf, and have the following; Section Files ModulePath /usr/lib64/xorg/modules ModulePath /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/ EndSection Your xorg cant find the dri and dri2 modules because its not looking in the second directory. I

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/14/2010 01:58 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: [...] You seem to have a HD 5700 card, even newer than the HD4XXX which is not yet supported. So I'd turn this option off and try again. Btw, on Gentoo testing (~arch), HD4000 cards are working very well, including hardware accelerated OpenGL and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread pk
On 2010-10-16 04:49, Jeff Cranmer wrote: I just noticed that I don't have a dri module either... :-/ - fglrx has it's own dri module called fglrx_dri.so. Do you have this in your module path? Just noticed this in your later mail: (WW) fglrx(0): ***

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: On 10/14/2010 01:58 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: [...] You seem to have a HD 5700 card, even newer than the HD4XXX which is not yet supported. So I'd turn this option off and try again. Btw, on Gentoo testing (~arch), HD4000 cards are working very well, including

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 14:51 +1100, Adam Carter wrote: I use an xorg.conf, and have the following; Section Files ModulePath /usr/lib64/xorg/modules ModulePath /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/ EndSection Your xorg cant find the dri and dri2 modules because its not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread Adam Carter
I use an xorg.conf, and have the following; Section Files ModulePath /usr/lib64/xorg/modules ModulePath /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/ EndSection Your xorg cant find the dri and dri2 modules because its not looking in the second directory. I think the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 10:32 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You mentioned that you used fglrxinfo in your post, which assumes you're using the closed source driver :-/ Another hint was that you're using an HD5000 series card, which is not supported correctly by the open source drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
OK, so let's have a go at the ATI drivers again. First, get rid of the open source ati drivers emerge --unmerge -av radeon-ucode xf86-video-ati Editing the /etc/make.conf file to change the last line to VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx then running emerge -NDuav system changes the mesa driver so that I have no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 22:24 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote: OK, so let's have a go at the ATI drivers again. First, get rid of the open source ati drivers emerge --unmerge -av radeon-ucode xf86-video-ati Editing the /etc/make.conf file to change the last line to VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx then running

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-15 Thread Adam Carter
I use an xorg.conf, and have the following; Section Files ModulePath /usr/lib64/xorg/modules ModulePath /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/ EndSection Your xorg cant find the dri and dri2 modules because its not looking in the second directory. Also, it might be worth trying

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/14/2010 04:23 AM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 17:06 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Forgot one last thing. After you do what I described in my other post, make sure to execute: eselect opengl set ati Hi Nikos, Thanks for the advice. I think that the instructions that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Jeff Cranmer writes: Regarding eselect, I used eselect opengl xorg-xll to select the open source driver instead of ati. I think this is correct? Sounds right. The kernel options are configured as follows Device Drivers - Generic Driver Options - * Userspace firmware loading support

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/13/2010 02:41 AM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Hi, I have a Sapphire Radeon HD5750 graphics card installed on my Gentoo box, and I'm having some difficulty configuring it. When I run fglrxinfo, I get the OpenGL messages for a basic Mesa driver. I've attached the xorg.conf file, the Xorg.0.log

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/13/2010 02:41 AM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Hi, I have a Sapphire Radeon HD5750 graphics card installed on my Gentoo box, and I'm having some difficulty configuring it. When I run fglrxinfo, I get the OpenGL messages for a basic Mesa driver. I've attached the xorg.conf file, the Xorg.0.log

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-13 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 17:06 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Forgot one last thing. After you do what I described in my other post, make sure to execute: eselect opengl set ati Hi Nikos, Thanks for the advice. I think that the instructions that you're providing, however, are for the