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hmmgamer55
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 Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 12:49 am Post subject: help with xgl and a wirless scanner |
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i am running kernel 2.6.17-r8 with a ati radeion x700 agp 8x 256meg video card
i have tried everything i can think of and every how-to ive found nothing seems to work and i need some help
Also i have a SB Autogy LS that i cant seem to get to work i have it enabled via module in the kernel and the modual is autoloaded however i still cant get it to work i read someware to make your soundcard a built in feature to the kernel so you dont have to worrie about modules not working but while i was running menuconfig it wouldent let me set it as a built in feature if anybody has any info on a way to fix this let me know
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Kosmas
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 8:12 am Post subject: |
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First of all there is a proprietary driver for radon cards on linux called ati-drivers. I would suggest the latest 8.28.8 which works like a charm to me.
As for the sound you must setup sound not as module from the topmost location (CONFIG_SOUND=y) and all the rest you need below that must also be non modules.
If the top or anything above what you need in-kernel is modular then everything below that can not be in-kernel.
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hmmgamer55
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Kosmas wrote: | First of all there is a proprietary driver for radon cards on linux called ati-drivers. I would suggest the latest 8.28.8 which works like a charm to me.
As for the sound you must setup sound not as module from the topmost location (CONFIG_SOUND=y) and all the rest you need below that must also be non modules.
If the top or anything above what you need in-kernel is modular then everything below that can not be in-kernel.
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Thanks a lot i recompiled and i made fixed the sound card issue then installed the kernel, rebooted i switch into the new kernel in grub watch it boot up then i see it start alsa and it gets my sound card however it finishes loading the modules and then says
"block device /dev/hdb2 is not a valid root device"
But i know it is the a vaid root device because its the same setup i have for my other kernel that works perfectly (-sound card and video card)
is there something i mest up in the kernel config that is not allowing this to boot?
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hmmgamer55
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:42 pm Post subject: great |
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well i have done a lot of work compiling the kernel and such and ive gottent to the point were i can emerge the ati-drivers
i followed the gentoo how-to to get it to work but i get the the point were i do modprobe fglrx and it says
"FATAL: Module fglrx not found"
and i know it installed the module while it was compileing cus i saw it say
"*installing module fglrx"
then it finished, i need some help with this badly
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Kosmas
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| Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 8:14 am Post subject: |
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If you have a new kernel installed and running and emerged successfully the ati-drivers you can rebuild the module.
It is in /lib/modules/fglrx
do it like
| Code: | cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
./make.sh
cd ..
make_install.sh |
and the module is build and installed in kernel module tree.
also you may need to set ati as opengl with eselect if you havent already |
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hmmgamer55
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| Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Kosmas wrote: | If you have a new kernel installed and running and emerged successfully the ati-drivers you can rebuild the module.
It is in /lib/modules/fglrx
do it like
| Code: | cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
./make.sh
cd ..
make_install.sh |
and the module is build and installed in kernel module tree.
also you may need to set ati as opengl with eselect if you havent already |
Ive tried all that already and i finaly could get it to load the module however if i run fglrxinfo i always get
well i dont know what it says at this very moment cus i reinstalled and right now its running emerge ati-drivers
but it always says something like "messa3d" or soemthing like that and ive seen a lot of posts were this is a problem and you have to get it to say ATI stuff
and ive tried everything i can find to try and change it but nothing works i have done eselect and it seems to do absolutly nothing
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Well I think I run into a kind of a bug with ati drivers and the libGL in /usr/lib which points to the wrong file. As I recall there are more than one libGL.so files namely in
/usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib and /usr/lib/opengl/xorg/lib (and I have one more from ati-drivers manual installation (/usr/lib/fglrx)
See which one belongs to the correct fglrx (ati-drivers) and relink to that. |
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| Kosmas wrote: | Well I think I run into a kind of a bug with ati drivers and the libGL in /usr/lib which points to the wrong file. As I recall there are more than one libGL.so files namely in
/usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib and /usr/lib/opengl/xorg/lib (and I have one more from ati-drivers manual installation (/usr/lib/fglrx)
See which one belongs to the correct fglrx (ati-drivers) and relink to that. |
well ive been able to get my laptop wich is a hp pavilion dv5000 with a x200 mobility using this how to
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-493489-highlight-ati+x200.html
but using the same one i cannot get them to work with my desktops x700
i think it might just be my desktop though because i havent been able to get ati drivers to work correctly on any distro even ubuntu which i find is REALLY easy to do so im pretty confused
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ok well ive been able to get the drivers installed on my laptop which was my main consern but now i need a good howto for xgl can anyone help
i tried the gentoo wiki one but i found out that its really outdated and it doesnt work anyhow so if anyone has any information thatd be great
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Try the aticonfig for start to see what you can do with that. |
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i also need a good wirless monitor that will scan for hotspots so i dont have to keep using iwconfig and stuff
i used to use the network-manager-gnome package when i had ubuntu but it seems that gentoo doesnt have that in the portage (correct me if im wrong)
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There are many wireless stuff under /usr/portage/net-wireless.
I use kde and wifiscanner which does the trick  |
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| Kosmas wrote: | There are many wireless stuff under /usr/portage/net-wireless.
I use kde and wifiscanner which does the trick |
what about something that is built on gnome anything decent cus id like to not have to download the kde-libs just to run 1 pice of software
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