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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is starting xdm enough to see something in X?
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 21:12:19
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0905221412q42059efas44aa773fab97253c@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is starting xdm enough to see something in X? by Daniel da Veiga
1 On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Daniel da Veiga
2 <danieldaveiga@×××××.com> wrote:
3 <SNIP>
4 >
5 > Or you're using an intel card.
6 > Set your VIDEO_CARDS variable in /etc/make.conf to "vesa" and
7 > recompile xorg-server, then try again.
8 >
9 > --
10 > Daniel da Veiga
11 >
12 >
13
14 Hi Daniel,
15 I'm happy to try that, but for the record in case someone comes
16 along and reads this thread later, lspci shows a Radeon in the system,
17 so I set VIDEO_CARDS that way:
18
19 MacMini X11 # lspci
20 0000:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 AGP
21 0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280
22 [Radeon 9200] (rev 01)
23 0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 PCI
24 0001:10:12.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318
25 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
26 0001:10:17.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid Mac I/O
27 0001:10:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB
28 0001:10:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB
29 0001:10:1a.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB
30 0001:10:1b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
31 0001:10:1b.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
32 0001:10:1b.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
33 0002:20:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 Internal PCI
34 0002:20:0d.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Intrepid ATA/100
35 0002:20:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2
36 FireWire (rev 81)
37 0002:20:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 GMAC
38 (Sun GEM) (rev 80)
39 MacMini X11 #
40
41 MacMini X11 # cat /etc/make.conf | grep VIDEO
42 VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev radeon"
43 MacMini X11 #
44
45 I wasn't sure about the fbdev part. I just duplicated one of my x86 boxes.
46
47 The radeon driver does load and I don't see any complaints in the log file:
48
49 MacMini X11 # lsmod
50 Module Size Used by
51 radeon 139784 0
52 drm 80732 1 radeon
53 <SNIP>
54 agpgart 33344 2 drm,uninorth_agp
55 MacMini X11 #

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Re: [gentoo-user] Is starting xdm enough to see something in X? Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@×××××.com>