Now what? Ignore what you see on http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml and http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml about an "ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]" not needing a binary blob. It does require the R200 blob from radeon-ucode. If the blob isn't there, the bootup will delay for a minute, time out, and then continue. If the R200 blob is in /lib/firmware/radeon, it'll load, regardles of what i put in the kernel setup; e.g.
[d530][root][~] dmesg | grep R200 [ 0.277947] [drm] Loading R200 Microcode notwitstanding that the kernel is set up like so... [d530][root][~] zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i r300 CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon/R300_cp.bin" The question is... how do I force Mesa (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/r200_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/r200_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so [ 682.172] (EE) AIGLX error: Calling driver entry point failed [ 682.172] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering waltdnes@d531 ~ $ diff d530.txt d531.txt 5,8c5,8 < model name : Genuine Intel(R) CPU 2140 @ 1.60GHz < stepping : 2 < cpu MHz : 1596.157 < cache size : 1024 KB --- > model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4600 @ 2.40GHz > stepping : 13 > cpu MHz : 2400.000 > cache size : 2048 KB 27c27 < bogomips : 3191.35 --- > bogomips : 4788.02 31a32 -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
