Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-14 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: # echo "INPUT_DEVICES=\"keyboard mouse\"" >> /etc/make.conf # echo "VIDEO_CARDS=\"radeon vesa\"" >> /etc/make.conf # VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" emerge x11-drm # emerge xorg-x11 # env-update # source /etc/profile # Xorg -configure # fails mouse detect # se

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-11 Thread Mark Kirkwood
sean wrote: I tried the xf86-video-ati driver as you suggested. Xorg just starts up, is blank or black for a few moments then just ends. Cannot find out a reason why at this point. Hmmm - I notice from another email that you have lost your .so for radeon, so that might be an issue, so af

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-11 Thread sean
Mark Kirkwood wrote: Sean wrote: I picked up one of these cards today. Normally I prefer nvidia based but I let price make my choice right now. Anyway, have had nothing but problems trying to get this thing working. Found many bugs listed against the ati-drivers, and not having much more succ

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-11 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: I'm very interested as I've been using a 9550 with HW accel enabled + Xorg (6.9) with the radeon driver in FreeBSD 6 without any problems at all. This encourages me to think they should work in Gentoo as well...(crosses fingers) as I'm in the process of building my mothe

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-10 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 22:21 -0500, Sean wrote: > I picked up one of these cards today. Normally I prefer nvidia based but > I let price make my choice right now. > > Anyway, have had nothing but problems trying to get this thing working. > Found many bugs listed against the ati-drivers, and not h

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-09 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Sean wrote: I picked up one of these cards today. Normally I prefer nvidia based but I let price make my choice right now. Anyway, have had nothing but problems trying to get this thing working. Found many bugs listed against the ati-drivers, and not having much more success using the open sou

[gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-09 Thread Sean
I picked up one of these cards today. Normally I prefer nvidia based but I let price make my choice right now. Anyway, have had nothing but problems trying to get this thing working. Found many bugs listed against the ati-drivers, and not having much more success using the open source drivers a