Re: [gentoo-user] VIDEO_CARDS setting for 3D Rage Pro

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

Thanks Tero. I think htis email has probably saved me hours and hours
of research.

cheers,
Mark

On 7/15/05, Tero Grundström <tero@vuosaari.hai.fi> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I also have this video card.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, 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?
> 
> Yes it is the right way but only used by the x11-drm package.
> 
> If you want dri to work you also have to emerge xorg with the
> 'insecure-drivers' USE flag. That's right, the dri drivers for this video
> card are considered insecure...
> 
> 
> > 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?)
> 
> The 3D Rage Pro has uses a mach64 chip so the right setting is
> VIDEO_CARDS="mach64".
> 
> Finally, here is my video card section in xorg.conf:
> 
> Section "Device"
>          Identifier      "Card0"
>          Driver          "ati"
>          VendorName      "ATI"
>          BoardName       "3D Rage Pro 215GP"
>          ChipSet         "ati"
>          ChipId          0x4750
>          ChipRev         0x5c
>          Option          "backingstore"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> HTH
> --
> T.G.
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