Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
It tries to load "ati" on its own when I run "startx" with no
xorg.conf. Not my idea.
"ati" is a wrapper which tries to detect which driver to load.
I'm not aware of having done anything to specify "ati", so I don't
know how to stop it. My focus on ati-drivers came from the fact that
portage really wants to compile it.
Only if you have "fglrx" in VIDEO_CARDS (in make.conf).
BTW: video is an integrated ATI Rage XL on the motherboard, so it's a tad old.
When I run aticonfig --initial, it says
aticonfig: No supported adapters detected
So I tried putting the driver in xorg.conf, and using a modified
version of what worked with the old server, arrived at
Section "Device"
Identifier "ati-internal"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection
RESULTS: fglrx loads, but does not see the adapter.
fglrx is for Radeon and FireGL cards, not Rage.
x11-drivers/xf86-video-r128 should be for your board. Try to modify
your VIDEO_CARDS like this:
VIDEO_CARDS="r128 fbdev vesa vmware"
and then emerge -auDN world. Since you don't need ati-drivers, unmerge it.
For the undefined symbols, feel free to open a new thread.
