From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D438198005 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 08:54:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 81E18E05A1; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 08:54:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qmta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.227]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D29A1E04F2 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 08:54:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta13.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.52]) by qmta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 9ksT1l00317UAYkACkuBrJ; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 08:54:11 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.199] ([68.43.167.113]) by omta13.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 9kuA1l0012T7hPG8ZkuAsJ; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 08:54:10 +0000 Message-ID: <513C4A32.2040402@comcast.net> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 04:54:10 -0400 From: Chris Walters User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 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: [gentoo-user] A question concerning graphics... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=comcast.net; s=q20121106; t=1362905651; bh=nxQbQyvYjgT4V2S2zN6BSANsAHFthEnWMLt2ZpUjq+8=; h=Received:Received:Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject: Content-Type; b=liIkYylsUpQduWFYrw3wIJSlD0adpzynw4s7RW012j1nGZjpBADDqM1nl9lq/Ek9N RG8UpEHnwdoOaBya0TCvF3mpWVstklF7tK+iw+tzNj453FzyLk3auA+XPLqOs5+kNQ xABd8qEPmaD2YFWszd1f7wc+4VX82g7Ssr9sTdRoHQzQpg2xaje1wmw09n0+kanVGg 2Y1n6OBj/iMKu9zoqzhltozjZ7lZchCrZdAyuPuUXtsS1CKRKJrUXKhii7uI05+01A cjM5x3thSDbDnZ6G0SJLb1wE1ajLONVcQ73YzKPvZWsXFuN2GKu4SHc7oyEP4w7w2d fHy3IUSMWFbKA== X-Archives-Salt: 18e4ada5-2395-473d-9d7a-f230ffc041d9 X-Archives-Hash: a6c47e048a9a81874f7cc6cf12965432 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