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On Saturday 16 September 2006 18:04, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> On 9/16/06, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Saturday 16 September 2006 17:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> > > I'm trying to follow the HOWTO, but I've got a problem with ATI. |
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> > > I put 'ati' in VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, but it was not picked |
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> > > up in the actual emerge, and now the driver does not exist, as |
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> > > reported by startx. |
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> > |
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> > Try VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" |
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> |
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> Can't try it for the next hour or so, but I have my doubts anyway. |
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> /etc/X11/xorg.conf has, in part |
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> Section "Device" |
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> Identifier "ati-internal" |
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> Driver "ati" |
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> EndSection |
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> |
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> Section "Screen" |
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> Identifier "Screen1" |
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> Device "ati-internal" |
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> Monitor "Westinghouse" |
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> ... |
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> |
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> And that's the only Device section. Accordingly, I expect startx is going |
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> to continue to expect a driver named "ati". Which is good, because that's |
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> the kind of video I have on my motherboard. |
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The xorg-x11 requires radeon_drv.so, which will only be built if you somehow |
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tell it to do so. Thereafter you may want the kernel ATI modules (select |
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them when you build your kernel) or the fglrx module in which case run emerge |
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ati-drivers. That's how I understand it to be; not sure if things have |
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changed since I set up one of my boxen. |
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HTH. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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