Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-14 Thread sean
James and all, thanks much for the help, however I have called it a day with this ATI Radeon 9550 card. I lost several days troubleshooting the thing, and every corner I tuned ran into another problem. Torture! Brought the card back to the store, replaced it with an Nvidia based card. Emerged

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-12 Thread James
sean verizon.net> writes: > I am actually in the process rebuilding the system from scratch again. > Install completed, and things upgraded. I'll email my xorg.conf that works with my ati-1900 as a reference. > So which would best be first, xorg, or the ati-drivers? Um, I'm not sure it matter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-12 Thread sean
James wrote: sean verizon.net> writes: I emerged the latest drivers you specified above and -dri stable drivers, these actually compiled. The xorg configure keeps crashing, but I played around with my earlier xorg config. Well, if you like I'll email directly to you my xorg.conf file for my

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-11 Thread James
sean verizon.net> writes: > I emerged the latest drivers you specified above and -dri stable > drivers, these actually compiled. > The xorg configure keeps crashing, but I played around with my earlier > xorg config. Well, if you like I'll email directly to you my xorg.conf file for my ati-190

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-11 Thread Sean
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:19:47 -0500, sean wrote: Did a slocate for radeon_drv and it located it in the proper xorg location for the drivers. Tried xorg again, it failed the same way. Went to the driver location, and the radeon driver is not present. Tried an slocate again,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:19:47 -0500, sean wrote: > Did a slocate for radeon_drv and it located it in the proper xorg > location for the drivers. Tried xorg again, it failed the same way. > Went to the driver location, and the radeon driver is not present. > Tried an slocate again, it states that t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-11 Thread sean
James wrote: Hello Sean, I did get my ATI 1900 to work, but, only after quit a lot of pain Still in pain here. Never had so many problems with a card before. 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

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-10 Thread James
Sean 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 a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:42:31 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > Post it on Bugzilla. If the maintainer likes your patch he'll add it > > to the tree. If not, anyone else searching Bugzilla will find it. > > Somebody already posted the patch to the driver to Bugzilla. > Should I also post the

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-01-10, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --Sig_Z=zjI8hJVAePlOai=Cqo4ho > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:56:42 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> How does one make an e-build available to the wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:56:42 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > How does one make an e-build available to the world? Post it on Bugzilla. If the maintainer likes your patch he'll add it to the tree. If not, anyone else searching Bugzilla will find it. -- Neil Bothwick Unsupported service (ad

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-01-10, Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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. The ati-dri