From: Chris Walters <cjw2004d@comcast.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] A question concerning graphics...
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 04:54:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <513C4A32.2040402@comcast.net> (raw)
Hello Everyone,
I have a couple of questions concerning what graphic drivers you use. Does
anyone use the proprietary ATI drivers, or have used them? Would you recommend
them? I just recently started using the ati-drivers package, but I don't
really notice a difference - yes it does say the frame rate is much higher, but
I am not sure it is worth losing my framebuffer over them.
Technically, I lost my frame buffer because I am using an initramfs (initrd)
because I have an encrypted root file system, and a separate non-encrypted usr
partition. I still have not been able to figure out how to get either uvesafb
or vesafb working through the initramfs. They will both load fine, before my
initrd starts, then they seem to disappear.
In case you're wondering, before I changed to the proprietary ati drivers, I
was using the kernel framebuffer for my video card(s). Two Radeon HD 5000
series cards. I did have to insert the proper ucode into my kernel, but it worked.
Chris
next reply other threads:[~2013-03-10 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-10 8:54 Chris Walters [this message]
2013-03-10 12:28 ` [gentoo-user] A question concerning graphics Michael Hampicke
2013-03-10 20:48 ` Alecks Gates
2013-03-10 22:53 ` Michael Hampicke
2013-03-10 23:07 ` Alecks Gates
2013-03-11 9:47 ` Michael Hampicke
2013-03-10 12:48 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-03-10 17:58 ` Mick
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