Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DRM Problem : Radeon HD 7670M

2016-05-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 05/05/2016 12:22, JingYuan Chen wrote: When grub or new kernel was installed in boot partition, their permission can be determined by umask. That is incorrect. Permissions are what you see with ls -l or stat. umask is nothing more than a convenience for the user to set a default Why set

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DRM Problem : Radeon HD 7670M

2016-05-05 Thread JingYuan Chen
When grub or new kernel was installed in boot partition, their permission can be determined by umask. Why set boot partition as noauto or ro in fstab ? What's the advantage ? On May 5, 2016 1:46 AM, "James" wrote: > Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: DRM Problem : Radeon HD 7670M

2016-05-04 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > Therefore, I check the configuration of grub2 and fstab. Then I found > > that I forgot to modify mount options in fstab. > > The option of my boot partition was set as noauto. So that I don't use > > the kernel compiled by myself at all. > We've all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DRM Problem : Radeon HD 7670M

2016-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 4 May 2016 13:06:45 +0800, JingYuan Chen wrote: > I found that I made a big mistake after I installed kernel 4.4.6. My > laptop still used kernel 4.1.5 to boot. It come as a surprise to me. > > Therefore, I check the configuration of grub2 and fstab. Then I found > that I forgot to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DRM Problem : Radeon HD 7670M

2016-05-03 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 04 May 2016 13:06:45 JingYuan Chen wrote: > Hello Mick & James, > > I found that I made a big mistake after I installed kernel 4.4.6. My laptop > still used kernel 4.1.5 to boot. It come as a surprise to me. > > Therefore, I check the configuration of grub2 and fstab. Then I found

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DRM Problem : Radeon HD 7670M

2016-05-03 Thread JingYuan Chen
Hello Mick & James, I found that I made a big mistake after I installed kernel 4.4.6. My laptop still used kernel 4.1.5 to boot. It come as a surprise to me. Therefore, I check the configuration of grub2 and fstab. Then I found that I forgot to modify mount options in fstab. The option of my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DRM Problem : Radeon HD 7670M

2016-03-28 Thread JingYuan Chen
James, Thanks for your response and suggestion ! Rich0's kernel crash dump page is interesting to me. I think that I could find some useful information in it. I used Gentoo Live DVD to install Gentoo into my laptop. I will use it to check VGA configuration again this weekend. Thank you !

[gentoo-user] Re: DRM Problem : Radeon HD 7670M

2016-03-26 Thread James
JingYuan Chen gmail.com> writes: > I had installed Gentoo in my laptop  successfully last weekend. My laptop is Toshiba Satellite L840. I found that my VGA card is Radeon HD 7670M using "lspci -k" command. Therefore, I refer to Gentoo's Radeon wiki page to configure 4.1.15-r1 kernel with TURKS