Dimitar Toshev wrote: > On Friday 01 June 2007, Mick wrote: > > On Friday 01 June 2007 20:09, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > It is a ATI Radeon 9250 (128 MB-AGP, 200/240 MHz). I added fglrx and > > > radeon to my VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, now it is > > > VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx radeon nvidia nv vesa vga fbdev". X was updated > > > with "emerge -uN xorg-x11". > > > > You need either the radeon driver OR the ati-drivers. Up to you. If > > the former take everything else out of VIDEO_CARDS="...." except for > > radeon and try configuring your xorg.conf. Alternatively, take radeon > > out, put fglrx in and emerge ati-drivers before you try to configure > > your xorg.conf again.
Is it really necessary to have only one entry in VIDEO_CARDS? I used to have several, just in case. > > If I were you I would first read really carefully this: > > > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml > > ATI has discontinued support for 9250 and below for some time now. The > only option is the open-source radeon driver. It's quite good, actually - > much more stable than fglrx, has support for almost all features of the > cards (tvout is a notable exception) and you never have to worry that the > next Xorg or kernel update will break your graphics drivers. Too bad, tvout was one of the features I was happy to have now :) Sorry for not responding for such a long time, but I was away from my computer at home. I tried a little more, but with no success. But I decided to change the card, because the image quality is rather bad, teh widnows cast shadows onto the desktop. It is okay if I plug the monitor directly into the card, but I need to have an extension cable. It is a rather expensive one, without much loss in image quality, except with this special graphics card. Now I am trying out some other cards. The problem is that I cannot get a fresh xorg.conf file. X -configure always fails with these messages (like in my first posting): weird ~ # X -configure :1 _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/weird:1 _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6 X Window System Version 7.2.0 Release Date: 22 January 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.2 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 i686 Current Operating System: Linux weird 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 #6 PREEMPT Fri Jun 1 05:21:29 CEST 2007 i686 Build Date: 01 June 2007 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.1.log", Time: Tue Jun 26 01:10:30 2007 List of video drivers: ati atimisc radeon nv nvidia r128 fglrx fbdev vesa vga Backtrace: 0: X(xf86SigHandler+0xa9) [0x80af86f] 1: X(DoConfigure+0x199) [0x80a367b] 2: X(InitOutput+0x186) [0x80967b0] 3: X(main+0x305) [0x806e405] 4: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0xb7ced83c] 5: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xa1) [0x806d9c1] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting The log file (http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/Xorg.1.log for example) does not seem to contain more information of value. I have X running, but only by using an old xorg.conf file where I exchanged the Driver line. This seems to work for plain 2D, but I guess to use all features I need a new one. The version is xorg-x11-7.2 and xorg-server-1.2.0-r3, emerge --info is here: http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/emerge.info Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
