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

["Tero Grundström" <tero@vuosaari.hai.fi>]

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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