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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: video driver discovery
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:11:08
Message-Id: loom.20081220T174401-335@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] video driver discovery by Justin
1 Justin <justin <at> j-schmitz.net> writes:
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3
4 > Take this faq as a starting point
5 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml
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7
8 I admin many gentoo system (approaching 50) and
9 many I do not even remember installing many. Some
10 of these systems, I rarely see/admin.
11
12 Ok so it has x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati installed.
13
14 How do I actually know that this driver, not the
15 vesa is being used?
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17 Is this the correct syntax for make.conf?
18 VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa"
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20 Where is the list for what all of the different
21 options are for make.conf on the video cards choices?
22 Its not in /etc/make.conf.examples....
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24
25 eselect opengl list
26 shows:
27 Available OpenGL implementations:
28 [1] xorg-x11 *
29
30 Does this mean the system is using
31 xf86-video-ati ?
32
33 What syntax do I use to see what video driver the system is
34 actually using? It's not apparent to me, and I'm sure there
35 is some little (syntax) command to tell what the system
36 is actually using. It's not ati-drivers, because it's not
37 installed.
38
39 Are the xf86-video-ati 3D or is my only choice there
40 ati-drivers....?
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43 James