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

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

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

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

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