[gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers

[gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers

[Colleen Beamer]

Hi,

Why would portage want to install ati-drivers when it is not on my
system, not in my package.keywords file and not in my world file?

Regards,

Colleen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:09, Colleen Beamer wrote:
> Why would portage want to install ati-drivers when it is not on my
> system, not in my package.keywords file and not in my world file?

Because VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf includes fglrx? If you are still 
confused please post the output of:

# grep ^VIDEO_CARDS /etc/make.conf

# emerge --info | grep ^USE

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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers

[Colleen Beamer]

Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:09, Colleen Beamer wrote:
>> Why would portage want to install ati-drivers when it is not on my
>> system, not in my package.keywords file and not in my world file?
> 
> Because VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf includes fglrx? If you are still 
> confused please post the output of:
> 
> # grep ^VIDEO_CARDS /etc/make.conf

Nope, not the reason either. :-)  VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf set to
"radeon" only.


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Colleen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:41, Colleen Beamer wrote:
> Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:09, Colleen Beamer wrote:
> >> Why would portage want to install ati-drivers when it is not on my
> >> system, not in my package.keywords file and not in my world file?
> >
> > Because VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf includes fglrx? If you are still
> > confused please post the output of:
> >
> > # grep ^VIDEO_CARDS /etc/make.conf
>
> Nope, not the reason either. :-)  VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf set to
> "radeon" only.

Hmm... how about:

# grep video_cards /etc/make.conf /etc/portage/package.use

? Otherwise emerge --tree is your friend to see what pulls it in.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers

[Mark Knecht]

On 9/12/06, Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:09, Colleen Beamer wrote:
> >> Why would portage want to install ati-drivers when it is not on my
> >> system, not in my package.keywords file and not in my world file?
> >
> > Because VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf includes fglrx? If you are still
> > confused please post the output of:
> >
> > # grep ^VIDEO_CARDS /etc/make.conf
>
> Nope, not the reason either. :-)  VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf set to
> "radeon" only.

maybe

equery depends ati-drivers

? (Or some form of that command?)

- Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:41, Colleen Beamer wrote:
> Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:09, Colleen Beamer wrote:
> >> Why would portage want to install ati-drivers when it is
> >> not on my system, not in my package.keywords file and not
> >> in my world file?
> >
> > Because VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf includes fglrx? If
> > you are still confused please post the output of:
> >
> > # grep ^VIDEO_CARDS /etc/make.conf
>
> Nope, not the reason either. :-)  VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf
> set to "radeon" only.

Perhaps you have google-earth installed, or some other app that 
requires hardware 3D. That's what happened to me:

gentoo ~ # equery depends ati-drivers
[ Searching for packages depending on ati-drivers... ]
x11-misc/googleearth-4_beta
x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1

alan

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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Tuesday 12 September 2006 16:12, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Nope, not the reason either. :-)  VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf
> > set to "radeon" only.
>
> Perhaps you have google-earth installed, or some other app that
> requires hardware 3D. That's what happened to me:
>
> gentoo ~ # equery depends ati-drivers
> [ Searching for packages depending on ati-drivers... ]
> x11-misc/googleearth-4_beta
> x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1

Not really. xorg-x11 requires ati-drivers only if you have fglrx in 
VIDEO_CARDS (or video_cards_fglrx in use flags) and googlearth has a 
dependency (on amd64) on any of the following:

# cat /usr/portage/x11-misc/googleearth/googleearth-4_beta.ebuild
[...]
RDEPEND=[...]
[...]
	|| (
		>=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-7.0
		>=media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-r3
		x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
		x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers
		>=x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.8.25-r1 )
[...]

If *any* of those packages are installed the requirement is satisfied and it 
won't pull in any others. If none are installed it will install the first on 
the list (>=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-7.0). Hence it will never pull 
ati-drivers in...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers

[Willie Wong]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 04:12:36PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked:
> Perhaps you have google-earth installed, or some other app that 
> requires hardware 3D. That's what happened to me:
> 
GoogleEarth runs fine with the x11 radeon driver on my laptop, FWIW.
So I doubt this would be a cause. 

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