On 2006-12-29, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm currently testing an 8.28.8-r1 ebuild. Once I'm confident >> I haven't broken anything, I'll post it. > > I have a ATI 1900 card: > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc R580 [Radeon X1900 > XT] Primary > 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc R580 [Radeon X1900 XT] > Secondary > > Let me know where you post and I test your ebuild/overlay.
Don't the newer versions of ati drivers work with that card? Are you sure you want to use such an old version of the driver? > Do put up some brief instructions, since abondoning the radeon > driver, I've not been able to get anything but a black screen > out of the ati-binary driver, with any number of kernels I've > tried. There are detailed instructions at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers > What's your entry for that 9200 card in the make.conf? VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa fbdev fglrx" > Can you send me the relevant portions of the xorg.conf file? For what it's worth, here's my xorg.conf file.... ________________________________________________________________________ Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" EndSection Section "Module" Load "extmod" Load "dri" Load "glx" Load "dbe" Load "record" Load "xtrap" Load "type1" Load "freetype" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" option "AIGLX" "off" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "NEC" ModelName "Multisync 97F" DisplaySize 386 289 HorizSync 31.5 - 79.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 90.0 EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]" Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver" Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor" Option "DPMS" "true" EndSection Section "Device" # Driver "fglrx" Identifier "Card0" Driver "ati" VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" BoardName "Radeon RV280 [Radeon 9200]" Option "mtrr" "off" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]" Driver "fglrx" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Virtual 1280 1024 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Virtual 1280 1024 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Virtual 1280 1024 Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" # Virtual 1024 768 Virtual 1280 1024 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]" Device "aticonfig-Device[0]" Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Virtual 1280 1024 Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection ________________________________________________________________________ -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Why is everything at made of Lycra Spandex? visi.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
