On Apr 4, 2005 6:52 PM, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Justin Patrin wrote:
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> >On Apr 4, 2005 5:58 PM, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Thank you for the reply!
> >>
> >>The problem is to date, I cannot get Xorg to go to a higher resolution
> >>than 640x480, and only acknolwedges one of the two monitors (uselessly
> >>duplicates teh one monitor onto the other, which is the power-on default
> >>for the card.
> >>
> >>I was trying to find any such while running Gentoo, but no framebeffer,
> >>either, and so far Gentoo does not like my ps/2 trackbball-mouse, so I
> >>had no luck. Today I have booted Win98SE, and am just about to go
> >>looking again where I can *see* something besides all those lovely
> >>serifs in 80x25 mode. And I have spent the last 7, repeat, *seven*
> >>entire days trying to get Gentoo installed.
> >>
> >>What I need is 10x7 + 10x7, or better yet 12x10 + 10x7, either as one
> >>large desltop or as two separate desktops, preferrably switchable by
> >>momentarily zapping X & issuing one command from the tt, probably just
> >>swappping between two X*.conf's.
> >>
> >>I did try the Gentoo fglrx driver & config, but after emerging it, I
> >>found out that this is still Xfree86-only, so I can't use it under Xorg.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I don't know why you think this...the fglrx and config program work
> >fine for xorg since a little while ago. The first version I used I had
> >to change some conf settings (found on a howto), but the latest
> >version I had installed created a conf that worked fine in xorg. Did
> >you try ~x86?
> >
> 1) 'startx' fails, and the Xorg log states that fglrx requires Xfree86,
> thus why I think this; did I miss something? Or are there two versions
> of fglrx....., one for each Xorg & Xfree86? emerge coulda got da wrong
> one, I s'pose... ("whatever the computer did, was whatever it darned
> jolly well wanted to", but on top of that, yeah, I do claim to be human,
> with all that that implies...)
> Bottom line, do you happen to know the correct version for emerge's Xorg
> on k-2.6.11-g-r4 or something near-by?
Well...I don't know what to tell you. I updated to the newest driver
and it supported xorg. My computer is unfortunately down so I can't
really tell you what version is installed (argh). It *does* support
xorg, though. I *know* I was running xorg-x11.
>
> 2) '-x86'; please specify where in what you mean; part of 'created
> fixes' was stage3 from universalCD, and ended up building everything new
> as -march=athlon-xp? Did I do a 'goofus, Rufus, you doofus' here?
> Maybe I need to rebuild *everyting* (...human...)?
You never need to rebuild everything unless you goofed up your arch or
cpu, in which case you're very likely to be screwed.
By ~x86 I meant did you try the unstable version of the ati driver? To
do this you need to add an entry in the /etc/portage/package.keywords
file (I think). Sorry, again my server is down so I don't have the
exact line. Check the portage usage manual pages for more.
>
> >
> >Also, I noticed that switching between the conf files didn't seem to
> >work. I think the config program may make some other changes (perhaps
> >some /proc stuff?) which forced me to re-run the config program if I
> >wanted to change my configuration.
> >
> <...re-run the config program...> Urgh!; Well, I can go looking, & if
> so maybe I can find a way to deal with that, too...
> Thank you for _that_ warning; I'll be prepared if I can ever get that far.
Yeah...it's a pain. But perhaps *I* was doing something wrong. ;-)
>
> Thanks again!,
> rgh.
>
> >
> >
> >
> >>So, I need a full-feature driver that runs under Xorg, or I need the
> >>Xfree86 system installed.
> >>
> >>Any thoughts?
> >>
>
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