On Tuesday 26 June 2007 02:06:41, Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > Dimitar Toshev wrote: > > On Friday 01 June 2007, Mick wrote: > > > On Friday 01 June 2007 20:09, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > It is a ATI Radeon 9250 (128 MB-AGP, 200/240 MHz). I added fglrx and > > > > radeon to my VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, now it is > > > > VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx radeon nvidia nv vesa vga fbdev". X was updated > > > > with "emerge -uN xorg-x11". > > > > > > You need either the radeon driver OR the ati-drivers. Up to you. If > > > the former take everything else out of VIDEO_CARDS="...." except for > > > radeon and try configuring your xorg.conf. Alternatively, take radeon > > > out, put fglrx in and emerge ati-drivers before you try to configure > > > your xorg.conf again. > > Is it really necessary to have only one entry in VIDEO_CARDS? I used to > have several, just in case. > > > > If I were you I would first read really carefully this: > > > > > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml > > > > ATI has discontinued support for 9250 and below for some time now. The > > only option is the open-source radeon driver. It's quite good, actually - > > much more stable than fglrx, has support for almost all features of the > > cards (tvout is a notable exception) and you never have to worry that the > > next Xorg or kernel update will break your graphics drivers. > > Too bad, tvout was one of the features I was happy to have now :) > > Sorry for not responding for such a long time, but I was away from my > computer at home. I tried a little more, but with no success. But I decided > to change the card, because the image quality is rather bad, teh widnows > cast shadows onto the desktop. It is okay if I plug the monitor directly > into the card, but I need to have an extension cable. It is a rather > expensive one, without much loss in image quality, except with this special > graphics card. > > Now I am trying out some other cards. The problem is that I cannot get a > fresh xorg.conf file. X -configure always fails with these messages (like > in my first posting): > > weird ~ # X -configure :1 > _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 > _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/weird:1 > _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6 Here you can see that server fails to open an ipv6 socket, so you have two solutions : 1) Try to recompile xorg without ipv6 use flag : USE=-ipv6 emerge xorg-server 2) Try to see if your kernel support ipv6, if not rebuild it with ipv6 support Hope this can help... > X Window System Version 7.2.0 > Release Date: 22 January 2007 > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.2 > Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 i686 > Current Operating System: Linux weird 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 #6 PREEMPT Fri Jun 1 > 05:21:29 CEST 2007 i686 > Build Date: 01 June 2007 > Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org > to make sure that you have the latest version. > Module Loader present > Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, > (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, > (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. > (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.1.log", Time: Tue Jun 26 01:10:30 2007 > List of video drivers: > ati > atimisc > radeon > nv > nvidia > r128 > fglrx > fbdev > vesa > vga > > Backtrace: > 0: X(xf86SigHandler+0xa9) [0x80af86f] > 1: X(DoConfigure+0x199) [0x80a367b] > 2: X(InitOutput+0x186) [0x80967b0] > 3: X(main+0x305) [0x806e405] > 4: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0xb7ced83c] > 5: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xa1) [0x806d9c1] > > Fatal server error: > Caught signal 11. Server aborting > > > The log file (http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/Xorg.1.log for example) does > not seem to contain more information of value. > > I have X running, but only by using an old xorg.conf file where I exchanged > the Driver line. This seems to work for plain 2D, but I guess to use all > features I need a new one. > > The version is xorg-x11-7.2 and xorg-server-1.2.0-r3, emerge --info is > here: http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/emerge.info > > Alex
Regards, Xavier Parizet -- http://www.linuxant.fr
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