From: Joseph Jezak <josejx@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] RE: Installing Gentoo on a Powermac G5
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 22:10:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45231831.9090809@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610031940.12498.david.gurvich@verizon.net>
David Gurvich wrote:
> For xorg you need to place the following in make.conf
> VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" #Thats for the video driver
> INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" #optionally you could add evdev to test.
>
> If you decide to use xorg-7.1:
>
> The ati driver patch is here for xf86-video-ati-6.6.2.
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146706
> All it does is some sanity checking. Otherwise, the driver assumes an x86
> VESA Bios and generates useless values. Developers are waiting on the patch
> to see if this or something else is used upstream.
It's also not needed on all ATI cards (works fine here without it),
I'd give it a try before patching.
-Joe
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2006-10-03 23:13 [gentoo-ppc-user] RE: Installing Gentoo on a Powermac G5 Darren Kirby
2006-10-03 23:40 ` David Gurvich
2006-10-04 2:10 ` Joseph Jezak [this message]
2006-10-04 18:00 ` Daniel Ostrow
2006-10-04 2:14 ` Joseph Jezak
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2006-10-03 23:11 Darren Kirby
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