From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DtUNc-0000Sn-FZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:53:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6FHpten007410; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:51:55 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.197]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6FHlbNC003559 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:47:38 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s18so377197nze for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:47:55 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=qrKiUkAK+8GwbyIim3PsrKyza68NzpcF9VNhUJtl4EJWHg+oxmm2GYXGHdXvpAj/mNPDRImFrTJBSoVWVxc7x5OL0opue0ZSFCRuvSoDv6iY7qVHZclmhUm4RqQu14/vMTqLX4c+s2VTXMmSJJN3lIVuqkZQzCdjRVLGYXUCCPc= Received: by 10.36.227.64 with SMTP id z64mr1662613nzg; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:47:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.57.9 with HTTP; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:47:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b05071510473fccb719@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:47:55 -0700 From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VIDEO_CARDS setting for 3D Rage Pro In-Reply-To: <42D7F1EE.8080204@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <5bdc1c8b05071509557977f33@mail.gmail.com> <42D7F1EE.8080204@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j6FHlbNC003559 X-Archives-Salt: 41666c73-0435-4d78-a35f-1bf8d3c68410 X-Archives-Hash: 68a9002cd598deb2de83f77048da746c On 7/15/05, Zac Medico wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > Converting my last FC machine to Gentoo since it didn't survive an FC2 > > to FC4 upgrade. > > > > Questions: > > > > 1) Is the VIDEO_CARDS= setting in /etc/make.conf still considered the > > right way to configure a new machine for a specific card? > > > > 2) If the answer to #1 is yes then what's the right setting for a 3D > > Rage Pro? (I.e. - where's the list of legal names?) > > > > 3) If no, then what's the right way to do this these days? > > > > Thanks, > > Mark > > > > It looks like the gentoo ati faq might be helpful: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml > > It mentions an x11-drm package that can be used to build kernel DRI modules. Inside the ebuild there is a list: > > IUSE_VIDEO_CARDS="3dfx ffb i810 i830 i915 mach64 matrox rage128 radeon savage sis via" > > I'm not sure if any of those will work for you but I'm sure one of the ati gurus will be along in a moment to help you. > > Zac > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > Thanks Zac. On this machine I don't care right now about 3D performance. Everything in my audio recording is pretty much 2D (VU meters and the like) so possibly it won't make much difference at all. I guess I'll choose rage128 and see what happens. Since DRM is modular I guess I don't have to load it if it causes trouble. Thanks for reading the ebuild for me. cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list