On Montag 13 April 2009, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Dear Gentooers,
>
> I need your help, because I just cannot get X to run on my new PC with ATI
> Radeon HD 3200 on-board graphics. What now?
>
> I tried all sorts of ati-drivers, most (if any) did not compile. But that
> was because of tuxonice-2.6.29, so I downgraded to the stable
> tuxonice-sources-2.6.24-r9.
>
> With ati-drivers 8.552-r2, X starts, but the mouse cursor does not move,
> nor does the keyboard do anything. At least I can switch back to the text
> console after pressing Alt-SysRq-R (this resets the keyboard), but only
> once.
>
> With 8.501 and 8.542, X does not start due to "undefined symbol:
> miZeroLineScreenIndex" in fglrx_drv.so.
>
> With radeonhd, X starts, but there is no mouse, and the keyboard does not
> work, even after the SysRq trick.
>
> With plain radeon... I don't remember exactly, but it didn't work either.
>
> I also downloaded ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run directly from the
> ATI site, it did not work better.
>
> With vesa, I get the same result as with ati-drivers-8.552-r2. Strange,
> shouldn't this always just work? I thought the problem might be the new X
> 1.5, so I downgraded xorg-server to 1.3. I get similar errors for
> ati-drivers. With vesa, radeon or radeonhd, X does not start any more, the
> X log tells me about module version errors. I guess I need to
> emerge -DautvN @world and rebuild the whole X stuff, but this fails due to
> slot conflicts with x11-libs/libXrender and x11-proto/renderproto:
>
> !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been
> pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
>
> x11-libs/libXrender:0
>
> ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.2', 'merge') pulled in by
> <x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.3 required by
> ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r6', 'merge')
> (and 25 more)
>
> ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.4', 'merge') pulled in by
> x11-libs/libXrender required by
> ('installed', '/', 'kde-base/plasma-workspace-4.2.1-r1', 'nomerge')
> x11-libs/libXrender required by
> ('installed', '/', 'www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.8', 'nomerge')
> x11-libs/libXrender required by
> ('installed', '/', 'kde-base/ksysguard-4.2.1', 'nomerge')
> (and 22 more)
> [...]
>
> So, libXrender 0.9.2 is needed by the old X, while KDE 4.2 stuff needs
> 0.9.4?
>
> I'm out of ideas now. Do you have any advice? A friend also has trouble
> with her Radeon X1550 card. It used to work a wile ago, but after
> someupdates (mainly the kernel), it doesn't, and even the old drivers that
> used to work, compiled with the old kernel, do not work any more. But I did
> not dig too dep into that, as I hoped I could get X to work on my new PC
> and then use this setup for hers.
>
> Wonko
a) the drivers you tried are acient
b) the drivers have nothing to do with input.
c) emerge input drivers and set up xorg.conf accordingly
d) if you want help, post information like Xorg.0.log, xorg.conf, versions of
packages used, etc.
