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 1EB4Bc-0000fA-Jn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 05:34:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j825UYep002209; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 05:30:34 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.193]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j825Pt70005865 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 05:25:55 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x7so365564nzc for ; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:28:27 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=B4muZ+if14kG77cNyesZJM0lHX8+ns/uMG2PcfJQ/zJVHapsm0cTJg0/3xJtO/7UluSPGUmzoiWg0OJpj1yd2tyAezuprrouIhx2HCl/lWEo/ho86OUgt6Mlx1uG8tTSJq8R3WbRgrYUfRiD7+iSJGij6vkWfNivCFTE0qFRtjY= Received: by 10.37.15.27 with SMTP id s27mr2111179nzi; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:28:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.60.4 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:28:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0509012228148738a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:28:27 -0700 From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which drivers to use for audio and video? In-Reply-To: <20050902051800.GA19616@waltdnes.org> 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: <20050901034117.GC15289@waltdnes.org> <5bdc1c8b05083121576f09e915@mail.gmail.com> <20050902051800.GA19616@waltdnes.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j825Pt70005865 X-Archives-Salt: 7a08938a-cacc-40ed-9f83-0c5f94766930 X-Archives-Hash: 190d3d75e7fe4abfbb1e49f3924499e6 On 9/1/05, Walter Dnes wrote: > > As for the ATI driver I set it up quickly today using the radeon > > driver from xorg-x11. > > After reading your message, I tried Radeon, and it seems to work. I > manually entered the frequencies for my monitor, and 1600 X 1200 works > fine. Now I just need to get the sound chip working. > I set up sound today. I got both the on-board sound chip as well as the HDSP 9652 working, although very little testing. So far everything has worked nicely. Only a couple of small issues: 1) A false Gnome message every time I log in. 2) The 'default' sound card setting, since I'm using two devices. Tomorro I hope to try the ATI proprietary driver to see if I can get 3D working. There are a number of strange things I've run into. For instance, on the mplayer emerge: lightning ~ # emerge -pv mplayer These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7-r1 (-3dfx) (-3dnow) (-3dnowext) +X -aac -aalib +alsa (-altivec) -arts -bidi -bl -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug -dga -directfb (-divx4linux) -doc -dts -dv -dvb +dvd +dvdread -edl +encode +esd -fbcon -ggi +gif +gtk +i8x0 +ipv6 +jack -joystick +jpeg -libcaca +lirc -live -lzo +mad* -matroska -matrox (-mmx) (-mmxext) +mythtv -nas +nls -nvidia +opengl -oss +png +real -rtc -samba +sdl (-sse) (-sse2) (-svga) -tga -theora -truetype +v4l +v4l2 +vorbis* (-win32codecs) -xanim -xinerama -xmms +xv +xvid -xvmc 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB lightning ~ # Note that 3dnow and mmx are disabled even though I have them enabled in my make.conf file: USE="radeon mmx mmxext sse sse2 3dnow 3dnowext gnome kde -arts ladspa nptl nptlonly ladcca audiofile gimp gimpprint ppds usb alsa cdr dvd dvdr dvdread caps jack jack-tmpfs fluidsynth tcltk sndfile v4l v4l2 mysql flac xscreensaver -samba i8x0 mythtv apache2 lirc mjpeg xvid real" I need to understand why that happens. /proc/cpuinfo says they should work: lightning ~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 47 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ stepping : 0 cpu MHz : 1809.280 cache size : 512 KB fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni lahf_lm bogomips : 3588.09 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc lightning ~ # -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list