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

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

[Mark Knecht]

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

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

[Zac Medico]

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

[Tero Grundström]

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


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

[Mark Knecht]

On 7/15/05, Zac Medico <zmedico@gmail.com> 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
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> 

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

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

[Mark Knecht]

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
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> T.G.
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> 
>

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

[Mark Knecht]

Hi Tero,
   I put this off for a long time.

   I'm a bit confused about exactly what driver is getting loaded here
and how it got built. When I set VIDEO_CARDS="mach64" I did not get a
driver called 'ati' but I did get a driver called 'mach64'. I am
currently loading the following drivers:

godzilla ~ # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
<SNIP>
mach64                 53952  0
drm                    65304  1 mach64
agpgart                29384  2 via_agp,drm
godzilla ~ #
This gets me to the point where I have no errors in
=/var/log/Xorg.0.log, but I do have warnings. I think that doesn't
matter until I get the drivers straightened up though.

   I presume this is the ATI driver that normally comes with xorg-x11
is it not? If so how do I get both it and the mach64 driver built?

   I hope I'm not totally missing your point. Sorry if I'm being dense.

With best regards,
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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> 
>

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