From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IS0da-0005bY-Aj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:21:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l831ERED029717; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 01:14:27 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l831A386024988 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 01:10:03 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFBD165778 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 01:10:01 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.908 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.908 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.909, BAYES_50=0.001] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id PvKrBFMACW7O for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 01:09:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D73CC65736 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 01:09:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IS0Rj-0001yB-Nf for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:09:43 +0200 Received: from buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:09:43 +0200 Received: from wireless by buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:09:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 01:09:30 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <5bdc1c8b0709021749g792960c1lcb840b4a56b6e4c0@mail.gmail.com> 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070819 SeaMonkey/1.1.4) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: b063e4a1-de8b-4cec-81d4-45741bac3c3b X-Archives-Hash: c757329fea7233d579c301dc1bfa092e Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: > You need to discover with lspci what ATI controller is in the machine > and then check which ati-drivers packages support it. After doing that > you need to make sure that the ati-drivers package you have chosen > matches up with the kernel you are attempting to build/install. Well, I think you are on to something: on the dell lspci shows: 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 7910 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 7912 00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 7915 00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 7917 00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0) 00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1) 00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2) 00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3) 00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4) 00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI) 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 SMBus (rev 14) googling produces this: Dell Inspiron 1721 is based on AMD ATI M690T chipset, Turion 64 X2 dual core processors with speeds from 1.8GHz to 2.2GHz, and ATI Mobility Radeon X1270 integrated graphics. so How/where do I read which chipsets are covered by which drivers? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list