unable to power off with proprietary ati drivers [Solved]

[ezioze]

Hi all,
since kernel 3.6 i'm unable to power off my pc (i have to hold down power button).
Switching to xorg-x11 driver soes the work, but after last update (02/01/2013) i fuond my system has switched automatically on ati drivers, so i tried switch back to xorg-x11 (eselect opengl set xorg-x11) .
After reboot i found my pc still use ati driver (eselect opengl list).
So i'm unable to use xorg-x11 direver
No problem to use proprietary driver but i want my pc power off when i shutdown
Does anyone have some advice?

[Fitzcarraldo]

The problem you are experiencing is often due to the ACPI rather than a video driver.

Anyway, switching to the open-source Radeon driver involves more than just entering the command eselect opengl set xorg-x11. You need to do other things too. Try the following:

1. Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf (if it exists) and make sure the video driver is declared as "ati" and not "fglrx". If /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not exist then look in the directory /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ to see if there is a file in there with the video driver specified, and change it to "ati" if it has "fglrx".

2. Edit the file /etc/conf.d/modules and check that the modules to be loaded are specified as:

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modules="radeon"
module_radeon_args="modeset=1"

3. Uninstall the closed-source driver:

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equo remove ati-drivers
equo remove ati-userspace

4. I would make sure the Gallium3D libraries are not selected:

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eselect mesa set 64bit sw classic
eselect mesa set 64bit i915 classic
eselect mesa set 64bit i965 classic
eselect mesa set 64bit r300 classic
eselect mesa set 64bit r600 classic
eselect mesa set 32bit sw classic
eselect mesa set 32bit i915 classic
eselect mesa set 32bit i965 classic
eselect mesa set 32bit r300 classic
eselect mesa set 32bit r600 classic

5. Select the open-source OpenGL library:

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eselect opengl set xorg-x11

6. Edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg and remove the "vga=", "console=tty1", "quiet" and "splash=" parameters from the kernel boot line. (Make a backup of the file first: cp /boot/grub/grub.cfg /boot/grub/grub.cfg.bak just in case you need to revert.) If this enables you to boot then you can make the necessary modifications to /etc/default/grub later so that the working parameters are maintained the next time you or Entropy use the grub2-mkconfig command.

[ezioze]

Thanks for your help.
Now it works good.
At first reboot i had to delete xorg.conf because startx doesnt go.