On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 05:53:37 +0200 bitlord <bitlord0...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-08-22 at 19:08 -0700, walt wrote: > > I forgot about xf86-video-ati until you mentioned it, so I just > > emerged > > it and (I think) made all the changes needed to reconfigure Xorg to > > use > > it instead of fglrx. > > > > Maybe I'm just too tired right now to think straight, but the error > > messages I see in Xorg.log tell me that my video chip is not > > supported. > For radeon (free driver) you need to configure more than Xorg, check > wiki article about radeon driver [1], It needs in kernel support, also > most cards especially "newer" (>=r600) need proprietary firmware. > > > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon An excellent wiki page, thanks. It tells me that my video chip should be supported so I'll go back and follow all the steps this time. I'd like to avoid the proprietary ati driver if I can.
