James and all, thanks much for the help, however I have called it a day
with this ATI Radeon 9550 card.
I lost several days troubleshooting the thing, and every corner I tuned
ran into another problem. Torture!
Brought the card back to the store, replaced it with an Nvidia based card.
James wrote:
sean tech.junk at verizon.net writes:
I emerged the latest drivers you specified above and -dri stable
drivers, these actually compiled.
The xorg configure keeps crashing, but I played around with my earlier
xorg config.
Well, if you like I'll email directly to you my xorg.conf
sean tech.junk at verizon.net writes:
I am actually in the process rebuilding the system from scratch again.
Install completed, and things upgraded.
I'll email my xorg.conf that works with my ati-1900 as a reference.
So which would best be first, xorg, or the ati-drivers?
Um, I'm not sure
James wrote:
Hello Sean,
I did get my ATI 1900 to work, but, only after quit a lot of pain
Still in pain here. Never had so many problems with a card before.
1. unmask the lastest ATI drivers ( as the ATI web
sites says there
are lots of bug fixes in 8.32.5) and install it. It
was the
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:19:47 -0500, sean wrote:
Did a slocate for radeon_drv and it located it in the proper xorg
location for the drivers. Tried xorg again, it failed the same way.
Went to the driver location, and the radeon driver is not present.
Tried an slocate again, it states that the
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:19:47 -0500, sean wrote:
Did a slocate for radeon_drv and it located it in the proper xorg
location for the drivers. Tried xorg again, it failed the same way.
Went to the driver location, and the radeon driver is not present.
Tried an slocate again,
sean tech.junk at verizon.net writes:
I emerged the latest drivers you specified above and -dri stable
drivers, these actually compiled.
The xorg configure keeps crashing, but I played around with my earlier
xorg config.
Well, if you like I'll email directly to you my xorg.conf file for my
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:56:42 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
How does one make an e-build available to the world?
Post it on Bugzilla. If the maintainer likes your patch he'll add it to
the tree. If not, anyone else searching Bugzilla will find it.
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On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:56:42 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
How does one make an e-build available to the world?
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:42:31 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
Post it on Bugzilla. If the maintainer likes your patch he'll add it
to the tree. If not, anyone else searching Bugzilla will find it.
Somebody already posted the patch to the driver to Bugzilla.
Should I also post the patch
Sean tech.junk at verizon.net writes:
Anyway, have had nothing but problems trying to get
this thing working.
Found many bugs listed against the ati-drivers, and
not having much more
success using the open source drivers also listed in
the Gentoo ATI faq.
Before I go much further, or
On 2007-01-10, Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyway, have had nothing but problems trying to get this thing
working. Found many bugs listed against the ati-drivers, and
not having much more success using the open source drivers
also listed in the Gentoo ATI faq.
The ati-drivers have
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