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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (unknown)
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:01:44
Message-Id: 201110242100.06824.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: (unknown) by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Monday 24 Oct 2011 09:36:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > On 10/24/2011 11:28 AM, Vishnupradeep wrote:
3 > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de
4 > >
5 > > <mailto:realnc@×××××.de>> wrote:
6 > > In your /etc/make.conf, use this:
7 > > I am using ATI 4350 card. so is that
8 > > VIDEO_CARDS="radeon r700"
9 >
10 > No. There is no driver called "r700". The driver is called "r600" and
11 > it drives R600 chips and newer.
12 >
13 > Another thing I forgot to mention is that you should make sure you're
14 > using Gallium3D in Mesa. To see what you're using (after you've rebuilt
15 > everything), do:
16 >
17 > eselect mesa list
18 >
19 > If "classic" is selected instead of "gallium", change it:
20 >
21 > eselect mesa set 64bit r600 gallium
22 > eselect mesa set 32bit r600 gallium
23
24 I'm getting confused ... I thought that the driver is radeon and r600 is the
25 firmware blob.
26
27 Does this need adding to /etc/make.conf?
28 --
29 Regards,
30 Mick

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