ATI x850 Working, but not with X11R7
Well, I went back through /var/log/emerge.log to find all the stuff that was merged to setup Modular X and I unmerged it all. I should have binaries of them to make remerging them easier if I change my mind again later. I emerged Xorg 6.8.2 again and got the card working. I’m using version 8.23.7 of the proprietary ATI driver (x11-drivers/ati-driver in portage).
It wasn’t perfect from the start, though. I ran X -configure and it exited on signal 11. I moved all the modules out of /usr/lib64/modules/drivers into a temporary directory except fglrx and vesa, but still, signal 11. However, the xorg.conf.new file was written, so I ran aticonfig on that one and then tried X -config xorg.conf.new and, to my surprise, it started up. I copied that config file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and started everything up with /etc/init.d/xdm start
I’ll probably look into seeing if it is possible to get it running with X11R7 later on, but in the mean time, I’m going to poke around in KDE 3.5.2 and see how things work.
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 ;)
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.
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.
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.