On 7/15/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > Converting my last FC machine to Gentoo since it didn't survive an FC2 > > to FC4 upgrade. > > > > Questions: > > > > 1) Is the VIDEO_CARDS= setting in /etc/make.conf still considered the > > right way to configure a new machine for a specific card? > > > > 2) If the answer to #1 is yes then what's the right setting for a 3D > > Rage Pro? (I.e. - where's the list of legal names?) > > > > 3) If no, then what's the right way to do this these days? > > > > Thanks, > > Mark > > > > It looks like the gentoo ati faq might be helpful: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml > > It mentions an x11-drm package that can be used to build kernel DRI modules. > Inside the ebuild there is a list: > > IUSE_VIDEO_CARDS="3dfx ffb i810 i830 i915 mach64 matrox rage128 radeon savage > sis via" > > I'm not sure if any of those will work for you but I'm sure one of the ati > gurus will be along in a moment to help you. > > Zac > -- > [email protected] mailing list >
Thanks Zac. On this machine I don't care right now about 3D performance. Everything in my audio recording is pretty much 2D (VU meters and the like) so possibly it won't make much difference at all. I guess I'll choose rage128 and see what happens. Since DRM is modular I guess I don't have to load it if it causes trouble. Thanks for reading the ebuild for me. cheers, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
