Re: [gentoo-powerpc] Radeon 3D powerpc

["Herminio Hernandez, Jr." <herminio.hernandezjr@gmail.com>]

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Research on how to create a local overlay on the gentoo site. Will attempt
when I get home. Thanks

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Konstantin Tokarev <annulen@yandex.ru>
wrote:

>
>
> 16.04.2015, 20:10, "Herminio Hernandez, Jr." <
> herminio.hernandezjr@gmail.com>:
> > There is common issue with the r300 driver in Mesa and Radeon cards on
> G4 Macs. When you have KMS enabled and to see if useing opengl you get this.
> >
> > rican-linux@ibookG4-gentoo ~ $ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo |grep render
> > libGL: screen 0 does not appear to be DRI3 capable
> > libGL: pci id for fd 4: 1002:4e56, driver r300
> > libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/tls/r300_dri.so
> > libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so
> > libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
> > libGL error: failed to load driver: r300
> > libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/tls/swrast_dri.so
> > libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so
> > libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
> > libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
> > Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig
> >
> > There are two ways to resolve this
> >
> > 1. set you default display to 16 in xorg.conf, but on PowerBook you
> really see the drop in depth bot so much in iBooks.
> >
> > 2. apply a patch found here
> >
> > I would much rather do option 2 and test that, however I am having some
> difficulty learning how to apply patches and reinstall in gentoo. In debian
> or ubuntu i would apt-get source the package, apply the patch, then
> recompile and reinstall. Can someone point me to resource that can help. I
> really cannot find it in the gentoo wiki, but I admit it may be I am not
> search for the correct thing. Thanks!
>
> You create local overlay, copy ebuilds you want to change from main
> portage tree to you overlay, modify ebuild (e.g. add patch), then execute
> `ebuild filename.ebuild digest`. After that you emerge the same package
> name as before and it gets installed from your overlay.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Konstantin
>

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