On Monday 27 December 2010 22:17:50 Davide Carnovale wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> it's two days i'm struggling to get a decent video quality on a fresh gentoo
> install.
> i have an ATI mobility HD5650 on a laptop. i've set VIDEO_CARD="radeon" on
> /etc/make.conf and emerge xf86-video-ati and radeon-ucode
> i've also followed hints from here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml
> and here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml
> and here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
> but i still get a very poor quality on images on the web, and can't run
> secondlife (the heaviest 3d program i use)
> i'm using the X server with no config file also, eselect opengl list shows
> only xorg-x11 in the list.
> 
> can anyone point me to an howto or give me some ideas on what can i do to
> fix this problem?
> 
> Davide

rm xorg.conf
emerge ati-drivers

follow instructions.

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