From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MYj4d-0003lh-2x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:10:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA3C7E02B3; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 16:10:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.allt1.se (ftgrelay.alltele.net [85.8.30.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87A50E02B3 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 16:10:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.allt1.se (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 4BEAC13790B; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 18:07:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (71.57.227.87.static.th.siw.siwnet.net [87.227.57.71]) by mail.allt1.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 290D0F27BA for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 18:07:53 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4A79AEFF.1010306@coolmail.se> Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:10:39 +0200 From: pk User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090625) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags References: <4A798691.7020309@coolmail.se> <200908051551.27910.wonko@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <200908051551.27910.wonko@wonkology.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 57a800da-df05-46c9-8db9-8410d6b6d858 X-Archives-Hash: 0377b603b61d4e83cbfad36d265e6f18 Alex Schuster wrote: > Oh, I just see that on my desktop machine xorg-server already got re- > compiled without fglrx. I see no adverse effects yet, but then OpenGL never > worked really well here. As I understand it the VIDEO_CARDS parameters (fglrx, radeon, etc.) only controls what drivers should be pulled in when building xorg. So it should not matter much; I'm just curious as to why it's removed from the flags when for instance nvidia is still there... Out of curiousity, what doesn't work for you with regards to OpenGL? For me almost all fglrx drivers have worked flawlessly for years. I'm hoping to migrate to the open source radeon driver as soon as it's stable with my current chip (rv670 - radeon 3870). > There is http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272659 , although it does > not really explain why midi is being dropped from ALSA. Found this: http://wonkabar.org/2009/08/02/alsa-cleanup-non-optional-midi-support-cleaner-confd/ ...not very much clearer but I left a comment/question on his blog. I'm just wondering what functionality gets lost... Thanks for the reply! Best regards Peter K