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Note: Sorry if this shows up twice, but both my responses (to David |
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and Joseph) seem to have been lost in a black hole... |
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quoth the David Gurvich: |
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> The video should not be a big problem. If you are going to use xorg-7.1, |
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> make sure to apply the patch to the ati driver. I could not get xorg.conf |
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> set up correctly, until Xorgautoconfig gave me a starting point. |
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I imagine I will use 7.0. Is putting: |
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VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" |
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in make.conf enough to get the drivers I need? Sorry for the stupid questions, |
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but all my x86 boxes have nVidia cards, and I have never used an ATI card |
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with Linux... |
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> I haven't used ppc64, but many of the developers are doing so. In fact, |
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> I've had to add ppc to ebuilds that had ppc64 in the KEYWORDS, but not ppc. |
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> I don't know about mixing ppc32 and ppc64 apps, but perhaps a chroot |
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> environment such as that used in amd64 might be possible. |
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After going through the package database pretty much all the software I |
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absolutely require is stable for PPC64, so I guess I'm all good. |
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-d |
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