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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (unknown)
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:58:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201110242258.17157.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <j84i7c$2go$1@dough.gmane.org>

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On Monday 24 Oct 2011 21:35:44 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 10/24/2011 10:59 PM, Mick wrote:
> > On Monday 24 Oct 2011 09:36:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> On 10/24/2011 11:28 AM, Vishnupradeep wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de
> >>> 
> >>> <mailto:realnc@arcor.de>>  wrote:
> >>>      In your /etc/make.conf, use this:
> >>> I am using ATI 4350 card. so is that
> >>> VIDEO_CARDS="radeon r700"
> >> 
> >> No.  There is no driver called "r700".  The driver is called "r600" and
> >> it drives R600 chips and newer.
> > 
> > I'm getting confused ... I thought that the driver is radeon and r600 is
> > the firmware blob.
> 
> "r600" is the driver.  Mesa  needs that.  "radeon" is more of a USE
> flag, needed by various ebuilds (for example "x11-base/xorg-drivers",
> "sys-power/pm-utils" and also "media-libs/mesa").  But it should be in
> VIDEO_CARDS, not in USE.

Thanks.  This is news to me.  It is not mentioned here:

  http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml

and when I remerge media-libs/mesa-7.11 only radeon is shown under 
VIDEO_CARDS:

[ebuild   R    ] media-libs/mesa-7.11  USE="classic egl gallium llvm nptl 
shared-glapi -bindist -debug -gbm -gles -motif -openvg -pax_kernel -pic (-
selinux) -shared-dricore" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon -intel -mach64 -mga -nouveau -
r128 -savage -sis -tdfx -via -vmware" 6,406 kB


> > Does this need adding to /etc/make.conf?
> 
> Yes.  Everyone who uses an AMD card should have "radeon" in VIDEO_CARDS,
> followed by either "r300" or "r600".  Of course only when we're taking
> about the X.Org drivers.  If you're going to use the Catalyst
> proprietary drivers, you should put "fglrx" in VIDEO_CARDS.

OK, I've added it and I'm remerging mesa to see what difference it makes.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-24 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-23 20:24 [gentoo-user] Vishnupradeep
2011-10-24  8:10 ` [gentoo-user] Re: (unknown) Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-24  8:18   ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-24  8:28   ` Vishnupradeep
2011-10-24  8:36     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-24 19:59       ` Mick
2011-10-24 20:35         ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-24 21:58           ` Mick [this message]
2011-10-25  5:22             ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-25  5:57               ` Vishnupradeep

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