On Friday 06 Jul 2012 05:09:08 Christopher Lemire wrote: > **This is what my laptop's screen with a newly installed Gentoo system > running twm to test X looks like (attached image). It's distorted with > overlapping and mirrored image. I have a Dell Latitude C800 with the video > card. > > http://img6.imagebanana.com/img/qq4qz9jf/0705122206.jpg > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee > ATI Rage Mobility M4 AGP [1002:4d46] > Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:00a3] > Kernel driver in use: aty128fb > > Yes, I have compiled the r128 driver directly into the kernel. Various > people around the internet had posted xorg.conf that was supposed "ati" as > the driver. I do not have that driver. I substituted in the same xorg.conf > with r128, and I still had the same issue. I tried with no xorg.conf (the > default), and I couldn't startx, errored and crashed. I had also tried X > -configure and had the same distorted screen. I know it is possible to get > this working just fine. I had it working just fine in Arch Linux with r128. > I really don't want to go back to using Arch. I already used fdisk on it to > install this new Gentoo system.
You should still be able to startx with no xorg.conf, as long as you have KMS built in the kernel, any firmware required for your card installed and instructions followed closely here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml PS. 'ati' is the proprietary driver. Given the age of your card you probably need 'radeon' specified in your make.conf. The above link explains the necessary. HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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