Comments on: ATI x850 Working, but not with X11R7

By: Warren Falk

Warren Falk — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 05:41:47 +0000

I was able to get it working without these settings when I retried everything. It’s possible something’s changed since the first time. I have switched to the open source radeon drivers anyway because they seem a good deal more stable.

By: Warren Falk

Warren Falk — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:36:39 +0000

This is some good information, thanks. I’ll give these a try again once I get everything working the way I want on Xorg 6.8.2. I can’t seem to get dual head working with my ATI card.

By: mbar

mbar — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:19:56 +0000

I also found this bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110506 and I think it might be connected, as I use LDFLAGS=”-Wl,-O1 -Wl,-s -Wl,z,now”. That z,now seems to be a culprit, bug description says “problem with X is that it cannot operate correctly with the immediate symbol loading of -z now” and “getting rid of the circular dependancies that result from using -z now is not a high priority, but that in the meantime we only need to supplant xorg-server and x11-drivers/* packages with -nonow passed as a compile flag”. I will try this solution when I get home in the evening.

By: mbar

mbar — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 04:53:45 +0000

You can use 6.9.0 snapshot instead. It’s the same as modular xorg 7, but in monolithic version. This works on amd64 with gcc 4.1, glibc 2.4. Get an overlay here http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-396898.html because portage’s 6.9 version has some compilation bugs. And mask 7.0 version ;)