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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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