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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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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
> >>>=20
> >>> <mailto:realnc@arcor.de>> wrote:
> >>> In your /etc/make.conf, use this:
> >>> I am using ATI 4350 card. so is that
> >>> VIDEO_CARDS=3D"radeon r700"
> >>=20
> >> No. There is no driver called "r700". The driver is called "r600" and
> >> it drives R600 chips and newer.
> >=20
> > I'm getting confused ... I thought that the driver is radeon and r600 is
> > the firmware blob.
>=20
> "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=20
VIDEO_CARDS:
[ebuild R ] media-libs/mesa-7.11 USE=3D"classic egl gallium llvm nptl=
=20
shared-glapi -bindist -debug -gbm -gles -motif -openvg -pax_kernel -pic (-
selinux) -shared-dricore" VIDEO_CARDS=3D"radeon -intel -mach64 -mga -nouvea=
u -
r128 -savage -sis -tdfx -via -vmware" 6,406 kB
> > Does this need adding to /etc/make.conf?
>=20
> 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.
=2D-=20
Regards,
Mick
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