Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading xorg
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:45:18
Message-Id: 20071009102936.7522fced@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Upgrading xorg by econti
1 Hello econti,
2
3 > So I should set INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" and VIDEO_CARDS="nv vga
4 > fbdev" in my make.conf.
5
6 That looks reasonable, if you need fbdev.
7
8 > But, what is the meaning of the minus sign preceding any of the video
9 > card names? And the ones between parentheses?
10
11 The minus sign means the flag is unset, you should see this for all the
12 cards you don't have. The parentheses mean the flag is not available in
13 your profile. in this case, those video cards are for specific, non-x86
14 hardware.
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17 --
18 Neil Bothwick
19
20 "RAM DISK is NOT an installation procedure!"

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Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading xorg econti <contiemilio@×××××.it>
Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading xorg Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx>