Try creating an xorg.conf On Thursday, December 26, 2019, gevisz <gev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have installed Gentoo on my second desktop computer > with Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard, AMD > Phenome II X4 945 processor, and AMD/ATI Radion > HD 4770 video card. However, currently I have only > the command line: startx fails to start X11 reporting > the following error: > ... > (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported. > (EE) Fatal server error: > (EE) no screens found (EE) > ... > (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. > ... > xinit: unable to connect to X server: Bad file descriptor. > and this is despite of the fact that I configured 4.19.86 > gentoo kernel following instructions from > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Guide > and > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon#Feature_support > Namely, I set > EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR = /lib/firmware > EXTRA_FIRMWARE = radeon/R700_rlc.bin, RV740_smc.bin, and RV710_uvd.bin > DRM = y and DRM_RADEON = y as described in the second link above. > (I have tried several variations but always got the above > error message after startx.) > >
