Hi! It appears that I couldn't make use of the latest ati-drivers with my laptop so I started poking around and got to that point where I found out that fglrx doesn't support the R250 chipset. The very latest I could manage to get working was ati-drivers-8.28.8. Therefore I suggest that ebuilds above that exclude the R250 (maybe even R200?) chipset(s) from their descriptions. I'm also about to file another bug about making a new ebuild, ati-legacy-drivers so that we on "legacy" chipsets can have dri/3D a bit longer :) From console when trying to startx with unsupported chipset: X Window System Version 7.1.1 Release Date: 12 May 2006 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1 Build Operating System: UNKNOWN Current Operating System: Linux Compix 2.6.19-gentoo-r2 #3 SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 28 09:16:08 CET 2006 i686 Build Date: 18 December 2006 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Dec 28 12:32:54 2006 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (EE) fglrx(0): Chipset 0x4c66 is not recognized (EE) fglrx(0): PreInitConfig failed SetVBEMode failed (EE) fglrx(0): PreInit failed Backtrace: 0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80d5a8c] 1: [0xb7f67420] 2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so(atiddxFreeScreen+0x33) [0xb7501873] 3: X(xf86DeleteScreen+0x6f) [0x80c1a10] 4: X(InitOutput+0xa12) [0x809df58] 5: X(main+0x277) [0x806e4db] 6: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0xb7d00824] 7: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xa1) [0x806da41] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. Thank god for Gentoo! /Charlie
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