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Old 12-27-2007, 02:18 AM   #1
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Question Yet another ATI problem

I have an Acer Aspire 5672WLMi laptop equipped with an ATI Mobility Radeon X16000 graphics card, Gentoo (Kernel 2.6.22-r5), and X11. I've done much research on this (on this forum, as well as others) and am yet to find a solution.. Perhaps you can help.

Xorg-config: http://rafb.net/p/qdeMlo42.html
Xorg-log: http://rafb.net/p/wat21F74.html

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Old 12-27-2007, 10:33 AM   #2
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I have an Acer Aspire 5672WLMi equipped with an ATI Mobility Radeon X16000 graphics card, Gentoo (Kernel 2.6.22-r5), and X11. I've done much research on this (on this forum, as well as others) and am yet to find a solution.. Perhaps you can help.

Xorg-config: http://rafb.net/p/qdeMlo42.html
Xorg-log: http://rafb.net/p/wat21F74.html

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You might tell us your problem, first. :P What's it doing?
 
Old 12-27-2007, 07:00 PM   #3
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Haha whoops!

When I run X, I just get a blank screen, and am forced to restart manually.

Thanks!
 
Old 12-28-2007, 09:09 AM   #4
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Old 12-28-2007, 10:48 AM   #5
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I have an Acer Aspire 5672WLMi laptop equipped with an ATI Mobility Radeon X16000 graphics card, Gentoo (Kernel 2.6.22-r5), and X11. I've done much research on this (on this forum, as well as others) and am yet to find a solution.. Perhaps you can help.

Xorg-config: http://rafb.net/p/qdeMlo42.html
Xorg-log: http://rafb.net/p/wat21F74.html

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
If you mean ATI Mobility Radeon X1600, there is a "ATI Linux x86 Display Driver" at
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/l...ux-radeon.html

You can try it.
 
Old 12-28-2007, 08:03 PM   #6
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If you mean ATI Mobility Radeon X1600, there is a "ATI Linux x86 Display Driver" at
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/l...ux-radeon.html

You can try it.
Yes, my mistake, it is the X1600. I downloaded and installed those drivers, with no success.

This is the new log: http://rafb.net/p/AxQY2C59.html

Thanks!
 
Old 12-28-2007, 11:51 PM   #7
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Have you read this following page?

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Acer_Aspire_5672_WLMi

Pay attention it's xorg.conf. It maybe helps.
 
Old 12-29-2007, 12:48 PM   #8
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Have you read this following page?

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Acer_Aspire_5672_WLMi

Pay attention it's xorg.conf. It maybe helps.
This is very strange.. I decided to replace my Xorg.conf with the one provided on that page, (being as it's the example for my exact laptop..) and it still doesn't work!

Log: http://rafb.net/p/f195ND79.html

Thanks a bunch!

Edit: When I tried to run "emerge -av x11-apps/ati-drivers-extra x11-drivers/ati-drivers", it failed. The build log is located here: http://rafb.net/p/FjD2p821.html
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Old 12-30-2007, 06:43 AM   #9
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This is very strange.. I decided to replace my Xorg.conf with the one provided on that page, (being as it's the example for my exact laptop..) and it still doesn't work!

Log: http://rafb.net/p/f195ND79.html

Thanks a bunch!

Edit: When I tried to run "emerge -av x11-apps/ati-drivers-extra x11-drivers/ati-drivers", it failed. The build log is located here: http://rafb.net/p/FjD2p821.html

Sorry, it seems that your problem is beyond my ability.

Here are some links of Acer laptops with Linux. Maybe they can help some.

http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/acer.html

Good luck!
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Old 12-30-2007, 11:23 PM   #10
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Sorry, it seems that your problem is beyond my ability.

Here are some links of Acer laptops with Linux. Maybe they can help some.

http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/acer.html

Good luck!
Thanks for your help, but I am in no position to buy a new laptop..

I'd appreciate any other support.
 
Old 12-30-2007, 11:30 PM   #11
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Your log links are broken. So, how does emerging ati-drivers fail?
 
Old 01-02-2008, 06:30 AM   #12
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Thanks for your help, but I am in no position to buy a new laptop..

I'd appreciate any other support.
:-) The laptop dealer's advertisement was automatically added, not my proposal. My link was the "Linux on Laptop", where many acer laptops had been successfully installed.

Good luck!
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Old 01-03-2008, 04:30 PM   #13
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:-) The laptop dealer's advertisement was automatically added, not my proposal. My link was the "Linux on Laptop", where many acer laptops had been successfully installed.

Good luck!
Ah, apologies, I misunderstood your message. Thank you for the link! My laptop does seem to be on there with an installation of (lol) Ubuntu. I'll try and figure something out with that though.

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Your log links are broken. So, how does emerging ati-drivers fail?
Yes, it seems they have expired, I'll post them all again in a minute.

Here they are:

http://rafb.net/p/m1Q6PJ44.html -- Xorg log
http://rafb.net/p/2IRng539.html -- Xorg conf
http://rafb.net/p/9ut43264.html -- Build log
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Old 01-04-2008, 09:53 PM   #14
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Old 01-05-2008, 02:17 AM   #15
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Well, it seems that I'm out of luck with your links.
Why don't you just post the output of
grep WW /var/log/Xorg.0.log
and
grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
here, without any links?
 
  


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