On 9/1/05, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As for the ATI driver I set it up quickly today using the radeon > > driver from xorg-x11. > > After reading your message, I tried Radeon, and it seems to work. I > manually entered the frequencies for my monitor, and 1600 X 1200 works > fine. Now I just need to get the sound chip working. >
I set up sound today. I got both the on-board sound chip as well as the HDSP 9652 working, although very little testing. So far everything has worked nicely. Only a couple of small issues: 1) A false Gnome message every time I log in. 2) The 'default' sound card setting, since I'm using two devices. Tomorro I hope to try the ATI proprietary driver to see if I can get 3D working. There are a number of strange things I've run into. For instance, on the mplayer emerge: lightning ~ # emerge -pv mplayer These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7-r1 (-3dfx) (-3dnow) (-3dnowext) +X -aac -aalib +alsa (-altivec) -arts -bidi -bl -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug -dga -directfb (-divx4linux) -doc -dts -dv -dvb +dvd +dvdread -edl +encode +esd -fbcon -ggi +gif +gtk +i8x0 +ipv6 +jack -joystick +jpeg -libcaca +lirc -live -lzo +mad* -matroska -matrox (-mmx) (-mmxext) +mythtv -nas +nls -nvidia +opengl -oss +png +real -rtc -samba +sdl (-sse) (-sse2) (-svga) -tga -theora -truetype +v4l +v4l2 +vorbis* (-win32codecs) -xanim -xinerama -xmms +xv +xvid -xvmc 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB lightning ~ # Note that 3dnow and mmx are disabled even though I have them enabled in my make.conf file: USE="radeon mmx mmxext sse sse2 3dnow 3dnowext gnome kde -arts ladspa nptl nptlonly ladcca audiofile gimp gimpprint ppds usb alsa cdr dvd dvdr dvdread caps jack jack-tmpfs fluidsynth tcltk sndfile v4l v4l2 mysql flac xscreensaver -samba i8x0 mythtv apache2 lirc mjpeg xvid real" I need to understand why that happens. /proc/cpuinfo says they should work: lightning ~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 47 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ stepping : 0 cpu MHz : 1809.280 cache size : 512 KB fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni lahf_lm bogomips : 3588.09 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc lightning ~ # -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
