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On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 2:18 PM, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> As I seem to have a natural ability to not find the best |
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> /(most accurate) information regarding video cards and drivers, |
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> I thought I'd ask here. |
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> I just inherited a new friend (with a gentoo) system |
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> that has this entry in the make.conf file: |
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> VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa" |
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> lspci shows this: |
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> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc |
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> RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G Series] |
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> So I'm thinking of switching the machine to the ati-drivers. |
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> Are there any other options? |
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> I do not see a radeon driver (using eix radeon) |
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> so I guess the choices are ati-drivers or vesa? |
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> I think the system is running on a vesa driver, although |
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> I do not really know the command syntax to discern |
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> exactly which video driver the system is using. |
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> Any suggestions are welcome. |
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> James |
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The radeon driver is in the kernel/xorg-X11. The ati-drivers package |
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is closed source, proprietary stuff. did you do an lsmod to see what |
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module is running? |
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- Mark |