Numerous ATI Radeon cards are unable to use any open source xorg DRI drivers as their PIC ID is not in the released version despite that the actual (and working) code is in place. Unfortunately I own such a card, see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-377161.html. Please see for details bug report https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2827. Please apply patch from https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=2231. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2827 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Try to use xorg wirh radeon driver with ATI X800 (R430) with device ID 554F Actual Results: xorg does not detect valid card, though it supports R430 chipset Expected Results: xorg should detect the graphics card as it supports the R430 chipset
This was committed to CVS in March and therefore should work in 6.8.99.* and modular. Give one of those a try please and let us know how it works.
Thanks for the feedback. I was hoping for a somewhat less drastic solution then to use something in status "testing / hard masked", for which I have to read: "The Gentoo developers do not support the use of these files." ... "Support requests related to package.unmask and/or package.mask will not be answered. You have been warned." The patch is very unintrusive, and with no effect at all for existing cards. Wouldn't it be possible (and reasonable) to apply it on the stable (or at least not hard masked) package (xorg-x11 6.8.2-r3)? Anyway, I will try to test it in the next two weeks. Feedback will follow. BTW: I didn't see the existing ".rc0" release of xorg in the package database yet. Any particular reason?
We aren't actively working on 6.8.2 anymore, it's in security mode. We're developing toward modular X, the 7.0 release. 6.8.99.15 is the last monolithic release that will be in the tree, so I encourage you to use that until you feel comfortable migrating to modular X. Presumed fixed in 6.8.99.15, reopen if this is not the case.
