From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: (unknown)
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:35:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <j84i7c$2go$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201110242100.06824.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
On 10/24/2011 10:59 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Monday 24 Oct 2011 09:36:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 10/24/2011 11:28 AM, Vishnupradeep wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de
>>>
>>> <mailto:realnc@arcor.de>> wrote:
>>> In your /etc/make.conf, use this:
>>> I am using ATI 4350 card. so is that
>>> VIDEO_CARDS="radeon r700"
>>
>> No. There is no driver called "r700". The driver is called "r600" and
>> it drives R600 chips and newer.
>
> I'm getting confused ... I thought that the driver is radeon and r600 is the
> firmware blob.
"r600" is the driver. Mesa needs that. "radeon" is more of a USE
flag, needed by various ebuilds (for example "x11-base/xorg-drivers",
"sys-power/pm-utils" and also "media-libs/mesa"). But it should be in
VIDEO_CARDS, not in USE.
> Does this need adding to /etc/make.conf?
Yes. Everyone who uses an AMD card should have "radeon" in VIDEO_CARDS,
followed by either "r300" or "r600". Of course only when we're taking
about the X.Org drivers. If you're going to use the Catalyst
proprietary drivers, you should put "fglrx" in VIDEO_CARDS.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-24 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-23 20:24 [gentoo-user] Vishnupradeep
2011-10-24 8:10 ` [gentoo-user] Re: (unknown) Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-24 8:18 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-24 8:28 ` Vishnupradeep
2011-10-24 8:36 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-24 19:59 ` Mick
2011-10-24 20:35 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2011-10-24 21:58 ` Mick
2011-10-25 5:22 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-25 5:57 ` Vishnupradeep
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