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Thanks Tero. I think htis email has probably saved me hours and hours |
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of research. |
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cheers, |
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Mark |
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On 7/15/05, Tero Grundström <tero@××××××××××××.fi> wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I also have this video card. |
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> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > Converting my last FC machine to Gentoo since it didn't survive an FC2 |
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> > to FC4 upgrade. |
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> > Questions: |
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> > 1) Is the VIDEO_CARDS= setting in /etc/make.conf still considered the |
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> > right way to configure a new machine for a specific card? |
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> Yes it is the right way but only used by the x11-drm package. |
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> If you want dri to work you also have to emerge xorg with the |
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> 'insecure-drivers' USE flag. That's right, the dri drivers for this video |
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> card are considered insecure... |
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> > 2) If the answer to #1 is yes then what's the right setting for a 3D |
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> > Rage Pro? (I.e. - where's the list of legal names?) |
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> The 3D Rage Pro has uses a mach64 chip so the right setting is |
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> VIDEO_CARDS="mach64". |
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> Finally, here is my video card section in xorg.conf: |
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> Section "Device" |
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> Identifier "Card0" |
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> Driver "ati" |
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> VendorName "ATI" |
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> BoardName "3D Rage Pro 215GP" |
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> ChipSet "ati" |
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> ChipId 0x4750 |
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> ChipRev 0x5c |
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> Option "backingstore" |
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> EndSection |
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> HTH |
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> T.G. |
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