try changing the device section of your xorg.conf
Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 9200 SE (RV280)" Driver "fglrx" Option "VideoOverlay" "on" Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off" EndSection
to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Month: March 2008
Enable VM86 support
If you’re looking for the “Enable VM86 support” option in the 2.6 kernel (in order to prepare the kernel for the ati-drivers) you can try to enable Options -> Show All Options in your xconfig.
permission problem during emerge fetch
If you experience permission errors during the download of portage packages (and you’re not paranoid) you can try disabling userfetch in your make.conf.
FEATURES="-userfetch"
In newer versions it is enabled by default.
(This feature drops root privileges during the download process. In my opinion it increases the security of your system but it won’t change your life 😉 )
gnome-volume-control cannot remember alsa-settings
Easy solution on gentoo:
rc-update add alsasound default
OR (on other distributions)
add alsactl restore to /etc/conf.d/local.start
echo “alsactl restore” >> /etc/conf.d/local.start
add alsactl store to /etc/conf.d/local.stop
echo “alsactl store” >> /etc/conf.d/local.stop
add local (if it isn’t already) to default startscripts
rc-update add local default