On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:25:21AM +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Tue, 6 Apr 2010 13:12:39 -0700 > schrieb Tony Miller <mcfiredr...@gmail.com>: > > I also have an empty xorg.conf, maybe it's worth trying it out. Perhaps you > just have a bad combination of options (even if you got them from the > "official" > documentation)? >
Tried an empty xorg.conf, still getting same error in Xorg.log and Software Renderer for OpenGl Renderer. > > If anyone has any idea, please let me know. Would posting to the xorg > > or radeon mailing lists be good places for help as well? > > I have one idea: which Kernel are you using? I have gentoo-sources-2.6.33 > installed. I read that the radeon devs recommend to use kernel versions > >=2.6.33 > for KMS instead of 2.6.32. > I also have 2.6.33. > Just goes to show how different ones experience with the same software can be. > For me and my HD4650 (r6xx) it was smooth sailing: I followed Gentoos 3D > acceleration guide and just needed to install the radeon-ucode package and > everything "just worked". Yeah, wish I could afford a different card, this one is being pretty difficult it seems. -Tony