On Saturday 05 Mar 2016 00:10:23 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Hello Fellows, > > My PC had been running on Intel graphics for 1½ years. Finally, I got myself > an AMD R7 370 today and installed it (together with a second set of 16 Gigs > of RAM ^^). > > I could use some help getting it working properly. Here is what I did: > yesterday I enabled VIDEO_CARDS=radeon in make.conf and rebuilt world with > --changed-use. I also reconfigured the kernel to build the Intel driver as > a module and to include the radeon module.
I believe you need VIDEO_CARDS="radeon radeonsi". Did you read this page? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon > After installing the card, at first I only had a black screen and found out > (thanks to #gentoo) that I needed a firmware blob. Once that was installed, > I had a KMS-enabled VT on my AMD-connected monitor. Yay. > > Now I'm stuck with a malfunctioning X (or more specifically, KDE, as it > seems). I can run AwesomeWM just fine. But when I try to start KDE, I see > the first of those fading-in progress icons and then the screen goes black. > > I created a test account to have a clean setup of KDE. This starts KDE > partially, only up to a desktop with an empty panel. There is no mouse > cursor to move around and no reaction to shortcuts such as Alt+F2. > > What else could I have missed in my migration from Intel to AMD? eselect > opengl only shows the xorg-x11 option. I had to comment out a modeline which > I set manually in xorg.conf. > > See attached: > - /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/gfx.conf > - /var/log/Xorg.0.log from running startx with .xinitrc containing startkde. > You can see those three blocks of modelines at the end. At around or just > before this point the screen goes dark. > > Can anyone give me a nudge. Or maybe I should as in a KDE list. Have you tried booting without a xorg.conf.d/gfx.conf file to see if it picks up the radeon drivers? -- Regards, Mick
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