Gentoo Archives: gentoo-ppc-user

From: Daniel Ostrow <dostrow@g.o>
To: gentoo-ppc-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] RE: Installing Gentoo on a Powermac G5
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:02:57
Message-Id: 1159984812.8162.0.camel@edge
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] RE: Installing Gentoo on a Powermac G5 by Joseph Jezak
1 On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 22:10 -0400, Joseph Jezak wrote:
2 > David Gurvich wrote:
3 > > For xorg you need to place the following in make.conf
4 > > VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" #Thats for the video driver
5 > > INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" #optionally you could add evdev to test.
6 > >
7 > > If you decide to use xorg-7.1:
8 > >
9 > > The ati driver patch is here for xf86-video-ati-6.6.2.
10 > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146706
11 > > All it does is some sanity checking. Otherwise, the driver assumes an x86
12 > > VESA Bios and generates useless values. Developers are waiting on the patch
13 > > to see if this or something else is used upstream.
14 >
15 > It's also not needed on all ATI cards (works fine here without it),
16 > I'd give it a try before patching.
17
18 As of around 16 hours ago version 6.6.3 of the driver hit the tree that
19 seems to fix the open issues.
20
21 --Dan

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