On Saturday 16 September 2006 18:04, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On 9/16/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 16 September 2006 17:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > I'm trying to follow the HOWTO, but I've got a problem with ATI. > > > I put 'ati' in VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, but it was not picked > > > up in the actual emerge, and now the driver does not exist, as > > > reported by startx. > > > > Try VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" > > Can't try it for the next hour or so, but I have my doubts anyway. > /etc/X11/xorg.conf has, in part > > Section "Device" > Identifier "ati-internal" > Driver "ati" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen1" > Device "ati-internal" > Monitor "Westinghouse" > ... > > And that's the only Device section. Accordingly, I expect startx is going > to continue to expect a driver named "ati". Which is good, because that's > the kind of video I have on my motherboard.
The xorg-x11 requires radeon_drv.so, which will only be built if you somehow tell it to do so. Thereafter you may want the kernel ATI modules (select them when you build your kernel) or the fglrx module in which case run emerge ati-drivers. That's how I understand it to be; not sure if things have changed since I set up one of my boxen. HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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