Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (unknown)

[Mick]

On Monday 24 Oct 2011 21:35:44 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 10/24/2011 10:59 PM, Mick wrote:
> > On Monday 24 Oct 2011 09:36:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> On 10/24/2011 11:28 AM, Vishnupradeep wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de
> >>>
> >>> <mailto:realnc@×××××.de>>  wrote:
> >>>      In your /etc/make.conf, use this:
> >>> I am using ATI 4350 card. so is that
> >>> VIDEO_CARDS="radeon r700"
> >>
> >> No.  There is no driver called "r700".  The driver is called "r600" and
> >> it drives R600 chips and newer.
> >
> > I'm getting confused ... I thought that the driver is radeon and r600 is
> > the firmware blob.
>
> "r600" is the driver.  Mesa  needs that.  "radeon" is more of a USE
> flag, needed by various ebuilds (for example "x11-base/xorg-drivers",
> "sys-power/pm-utils" and also "media-libs/mesa").  But it should be in
> VIDEO_CARDS, not in USE.

Thanks.  This is news to me.  It is not mentioned here:

  http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml

and when I remerge media-libs/mesa-7.11 only radeon is shown under 
VIDEO_CARDS:

[ebuild   R    ] media-libs/mesa-7.11  USE="classic egl gallium llvm nptl 
shared-glapi -bindist -debug -gbm -gles -motif -openvg -pax_kernel -pic (-
selinux) -shared-dricore" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon -intel -mach64 -mga -nouveau -
r128 -savage -sis -tdfx -via -vmware" 6,406 kB


> > Does this need adding to /etc/make.conf?
>
> Yes.  Everyone who uses an AMD card should have "radeon" in VIDEO_CARDS,
> followed by either "r300" or "r600".  Of course only when we're taking
> about the X.Org drivers.  If you're going to use the Catalyst
> proprietary drivers, you should put "fglrx" in VIDEO_CARDS.

OK, I've added it and I'm remerging mesa to see what difference it makes.
-- 
Regards,
Mick