Mick writes:
> On Monday 13 April 2009, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > I need your help, because I just cannot get X to run on my new PC with
> > ATI Radeon HD 3200 on-board graphics. What now?
[...]
> > I'm out of ideas now. Do you have any advice? A friend also has trouble
> > with her Radeon X1550 card. It used to work a wile ago, but after
> > someupdates (mainly the kernel), it doesn't, and even the old drivers
> > that used to work, compiled with the old kernel, do not work any more.
> > But I did not dig too dep into that, as I hoped I could get X to work
> > on my new PC and then use this setup for hers.
> I can't offer specific help because I do not have this card or have any
> experience with tuxonice kernels, but have you had a scroll through the
> many posts in this M/L and the gentoo forums about the new xorg package?
> If you do not have a proper working xorg.conf with an older kernel, you
> should be better off trying hal+evdev and configuring some .fdi files if
> you have to. Add USE="hal" in xorg before you emerge it and also set
> INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" in your /etc/make.conf. If you're lucky it may
> just work straight out of the box.
I already have the hal USE flag set. I added evdev to INPUT_DEVICES, and
tried again with and without existing xorg.conf. No real change - X starts,
but the mouse does not move, and nothing else happens.
I also tried an xorg.conf from Knoppix 5.3 and got the same effect.
Wonko
