Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > On Montag 13 April 2009, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > 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? [...] > a) the drivers you tried are acient All newer ones did not compile. I think. I tried so many combinations of kernels and drivers now, I do not remember everything. I think they did not compile, but that was due to a linking error with libGL. I found a bug-report stating that remerging mesa would help, and it did. Still no better results when running those drivers. With newer kernels, I got other compile errors at higher versions of the drivers. > b) the drivers have nothing to do with input. > c) emerge input drivers and set up xorg.conf accordingly I don't understand. I have INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" in /etc/make.conf, and x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard and x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse were emerged automatically. About xorg.conf: I did this a lot of times in my life, either by creating it by hand, or adapting the xorg.conf.example, or via startx -configure. It worked most of the times. Now, I also used ati-config --initial, I copied over a working xorg.conf from Knoppix 5.3, and, after using evdev, I tried completely without it. Nothing worked. Sometimes X just did not start, but most of the times it did, but did not respond to mouse movement or Ctrl-Alt-Fn keyboard input. > d) if you want help, post information like Xorg.0.log, xorg.conf, > versions of packages used, etc. Some of the logs are here: http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/radeonlogs/ I tried about every ati-driver not hard-masked with tuxonice kernels 2.6.24-r9, 2.6.28-r3 and 2.6.29, and some with vanilla 2.6.27.12. I rmmoded the fglrx driver between the emerges, so the updated one would be loaded. I also tried radeon, radeonhd and vesa. Especially vesa should not make any trouble, I think, so I guess it's not a problem related to the ati-drivers, but to input drivers or something. But I finally got it to work, by downgrading xorg-server to 1.3. It took me a while, messing a lot in the /etc/portage/ directory, because I got slot conflicts if not when trying to update @world. When this was done, I could remove most of the changes I made. Now I only need this in package.mask: >=x11-base/xorg-server-1.4 >=x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552 >=x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.4 And this in package.unmask: =x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.471.3 I have a working X now, at least with 2.6.24-tuxonice-r9 - with linux-2.6.28-tuxonice-r3 I could not compile ati-drivers-8.471.3, and all never versions of ati-drivers want xorg-server-1.5. Which is bad, because 8.471.3 will be removed soon from portage due to spring cleaning. Anyway, I will deal with this later. I'm eager to try KDE 4 for the first time now... let's see what will happen. (Apart from KDM not starting, but that was due to dbus not running.) Wonko
