On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Miguel Ramos wrote:
> 2008/12/11 Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de>:
> > On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Miguel Ramos wrote:
> >> Effectively, I didn't need anything more than picking the 8.552 ebuild
> >> (which does not need Xserver 1.5), changing the source file name from
> >> 8-11 to 8-12, rebuilding the manifest and emerging.
> >
> > that does not install the right driver. You have also change the
> > sourcefile name in the ebuild.
>
> I did. Read again. (I also needed to add -DGL_GLEXT_LEGACY to compile
> fgl_glxgears)
never needed that.

> But the result isn't very good. I have the following behaviour
> consistently: boot system, X starts fine, I close X on purpose, second
> time X doesn't start, receives signal 11, third time on starting X my
> system hangs badly and I have to press the power button for 4 secs.
>

make sure your login manager termiates X. Also remove all ati files from 
/etc/acpi

> Also, I'm worried that 8-12 does not bring a glx module, so the one
> from mesa is used.
> Is this ok?

I don't think so.

>
> The same thing happens when I install back the 8.552 or 8.552-r1
> ebuild. So far, the 8.543 are the only ones fully working for me.
>

just remove remove all drivers as I already wrote, and install 8.552-r2

>

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