On Monday 06 July 2009, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I cleared out some xorg related packages at some point because my machine > will not shutdown without a kernel oops when it is trying to unload the > radeon driver. It now seems I can no longer find glxgears/info. What have > I removed that I shouldn't have? > > I remember unmerging xorg-x11 (there was advice in this list that this is > not needed when using Fluxbox or other lightweight window managers). > > When I moved to x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r* I also unmerged > x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati. I recall concluding at the time that the new > xorg-server did not need such an external driver - is that right? > > I have set radeon as the video card in my /etc/make.conf, but Xorg.0.log > shows ati_drv.so - should it be so? > > # less /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep driver > X.Org XInput driver : 2.1 > (==) Matched ati for the autoconfigured driver > New driver is "ati" > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//ati_drv.so > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so > (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_texture_from_pixmap with driver support > > # lsmod | grep radeon > radeon 145696 2 > drm 141892 3 radeon > > Your views?
I hope it's not bad form to reply to my own message ... When I unmerged xorg-x11 I depclean removed a number of packages including x11-apps/mesa-progs - which contains glxinfo and glxgears. So, this leaves the question - do I need x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati? -- Regards, Mick
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