Sean <tech.junk <at> verizon.net> writes:
> Anyway, have had nothing but problems trying to get this thing working. > Found many bugs listed against the ati-drivers, and not having much more > success using the open source drivers also listed in the Gentoo ATI faq. > Before I go much further, or post for any help here, have any others > here managed to get this card working on Gentoo, Hello Sean, I do not have a 9550 card, but, here are a few resources and suggesting that I have found that might help. I did get my ATI 1900 to work, but, only after quit a lot of pain.... 1. unmask the lastest ATI drivers ( as the ATI web sites says there are lots of bug fixes in 8.32.5) and install it. It was the only version that worked on my ati 1900 card. http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.32.5.html 2. Pay very close attention to your xorg.conf file. Mine ended up being quite different that my "radeon" driver based systems. I used 'xorgconfig' to generate the intial xorg.conf file. From there, I just addressed each issue individually. If web pages(wikis) do not specifically talk about version 8.30.x or later, ignore them. They are out of date and none I tried to follow were very useful. These old web pages are about 95% of the problem with getting ati-drivers to work, as most reverence old 2.6 kernels and xorg (before 7.0)..... 3. Run 'lspci -v' and then Look at this web page to see exactly which video card you have. There is quite a lot of 'disinformation' floating about between vendors being deceptive and inacccurate/old web pages concerning video hardware. http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/iii//?i=1002 http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gentoo-radeon-faq.html#4_nodevice http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Fglrx#Building_for_Xorg_7.0 http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=596 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_R300 http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.linux.gentoo.user&followup=177360 hth, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
