Re: [gentoo-user] Which drivers to use for audio and video?

[Mark Knecht]

Hi Walter,
   I'm setting up the same thing, although I used the 64-bit Gentoo
install CD. Why are you using 32-bit?

   As for the ATI driver I set it up quickly today using the radeon
driver from xorg-x11. I've got an Asus PCI-E 16x card. It worked fine
the first time at 1280x1024 at 16-bit. The ati-driver package
installed fine but I'm unsure about the /dev/agpgart stuff on this
machine. It seems that the kernel doesn't let me choose those options
with the AMD64 processor so I just stuck with radeon for the short
term.

   I haven't set sound up yet. I'll be using an HDSP 9652 card in the
system so that will use the hdsp driver. However I guess there is an
on-board sound chip so I really should set that up too. most likely
it's jsut a normal 2 sound card setup with the motherboard chip using
whatever driver is appropriate, in this case the snd_intel8x0 driver.
However I cannot tell you much more before tomorrow when I take the
RME cards out of the old system and get this up and running.

Cheers,
Mark

On 8/31/05, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
>   I've got a brand new AMD64, which I'm installing 32-bit Gentoo on.
> When setting up a system figuring out which drivers to build, my options
> are...
>
>   Plan A) Boot Gentoo install CD and run "lsmod" to see which modules
> are loaded, so I know what to use.  If The Gentoo install CD can't
> recognize some devices...
>
>   Plan B) Post a message to the Gentoo list asking for help<g>.  The two
> devices are...
>   1) ATI PowerColor X300 SE video card
>   2) Sound chip
>
>   Which drivers do I use?  "lspci -v" shows the following.  Note two
> entries for the video card!
>
> 0000:00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
>         Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology: Unknown device ae01
>         Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
>         I/O ports at a800
>         I/O ports at ac00 [size=256]
>         Memory at ea106000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>         Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
>
> 0000:05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>         Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 1b60
>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
>         Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
>         I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
>         Memory at e9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>         Capabilities: [58] #10 [0001]
>         Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable
>
> 0000:05:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5b70
>         Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 1b61
>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
>         Memory at e9010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
>         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>         Capabilities: [58] #10 [0001]
>
>
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