Summary: | x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati should advise user about x11-drivers/radeon-ucode | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Steffen Schaumburg <steffen> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo X packagers <x11> |
Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
Severity: | trivial | CC: | almiller_1, nikoli |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Steffen Schaumburg
2012-11-02 01:58:50 UTC
This is all documented in The X Server Configuration HOWTO (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml). Couldn't we just point users there? I upgraded to version =x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-7.0.0 from version 6.x.x (which I believe was 6.14.4-r1), that had the unpleasant following effect : the X server would not start anymore. my card is Radeon HD 5670. Here is a log showing the problem: http://bpaste.net/show/59888/ (v7, did not run). Downgrading to version 6.14.6-r1 repaired that, here is a log: http://bpaste.net/show/59887/ (v6, runs fine) After some discussions on IRC (thanks to those who helped me), it turned out that since version 7, it is needed to have CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS=y in the kernel config, and that indeed solved my problem (I also modularized the radeon driver ; I had it built-in previously). The suggestion is to mention this change in a postinst message. Note that in the kernel config, this configuration setting is marked as "NEW DRIVER" "don't enable this unless you know what you are doing" which is a little scary. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 356187 *** |