From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:21:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <i9bqqu$iks$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1287195855.5053.93.camel@laptop.limeyworld>
On 10/16/2010 05:24 AM, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> OK, so let's have a go at the ATI drivers again.
>
> First, get rid of the open source ati drivers
> emerge --unmerge -av radeon-ucode xf86-video-ati
>
> Editing the /etc/make.conf file to change the last line to
> VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx"
Make sure you use this:
VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx fbdev vesa"
IIRC, fglrx needs parts of vesa and fbdev too, and crashes without them.
Unfortunately, portage does not take care of this crucial dependency
automatically; you have to do it yourself.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-16 10:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-12 23:41 [gentoo-user] Trying to configure Radeon card Jeff Cranmer
2010-10-13 3:39 ` Jake Moe
2010-10-13 11:25 ` Alex Schuster
2010-10-13 14:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-10-13 14:06 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-10-14 1:23 ` Jeff Cranmer
2010-10-14 7:32 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-10-16 0:11 ` Jeff Cranmer
2010-10-16 2:24 ` Jeff Cranmer
2010-10-16 2:49 ` Jeff Cranmer
2010-10-16 3:51 ` Adam Carter
2010-10-16 9:28 ` Alex Schuster
2010-10-17 0:21 ` Adam Carter
2010-10-16 18:28 ` Jeff Cranmer
2010-10-17 16:07 ` Jeff Cranmer
2010-10-16 9:36 ` pk
2010-10-16 9:05 ` pk
2010-10-16 9:21 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2010-10-14 10:58 ` Alex Schuster
2010-10-16 9:36 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-10-16 9:44 ` Alex Schuster
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