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From: Joseph Jezak <josejx@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 02:12:11
Message-Id: 45231831.9090809@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] RE: Installing Gentoo on a Powermac G5 by David Gurvich
1 David Gurvich wrote:
2 > For xorg you need to place the following in make.conf
3 > VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" #Thats for the video driver
4 > INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" #optionally you could add evdev to test.
5 >
6 > If you decide to use xorg-7.1:
7 >
8 > The ati driver patch is here for xf86-video-ati-6.6.2.
9 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146706
10 > All it does is some sanity checking. Otherwise, the driver assumes an x86
11 > VESA Bios and generates useless values. Developers are waiting on the patch
12 > to see if this or something else is used upstream.
13
14 It's also not needed on all ATI cards (works fine here without it),
15 I'd give it a try before patching.
16
17 -Joe
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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] RE: Installing Gentoo on a Powermac G5 Daniel Ostrow <dostrow@g.o>