Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags

[pk <peterk2@coolmail.se>]

Alex Schuster wrote:

> I had tried vanilla-sources, with the same results. As expected, there 
> should not be much of a difference. I am not using tuxonice suspend 
> features, but I intend to do so in the future.

Hm, ok.

> I added your stuff, that did not make much of a difference. I had an empty 
> modules sections, but all of these modules are loaded by default. Except for 
> type1, which does not exist.

Yea, type 1 is a left over from old days... :-)

So what modules does get loaded?

> I know this command from when I had a NVidia card, and I am missing the 
> 'YES' in my output of fglrxinfo. But I do not have a 'NO' there either.

fglrxinfo is different from glxinfo. glxinfo is available in the
mesa-progs package (emerging this will pull in mesa as well but there's
no harm in that, unless you are tight on hard drive space - just make
sure you shift back to ati opengl after emerging).

> Although the symbol being missed is a different one.

Sorry, I didn't read properly...

> I thought I read here that they do, but may give lots of warnings in syslog.

Well, I'm holding out for the open source drivers... There's nothing in
newer fglrx drivers that I need currently. I wish I could be of more
help though...