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Tzuriel
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 Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:59 pm Post subject: settings for ATI Rage XL 8Mb |
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Anyone know what the VIDEO_CARDS="" setting would be for an ATI Rage XL 8Mb card? I'm trying to set my resolution to something a bit higher than the 640x480 that I'm getting now.
I'm guessing once I set that, then an emerge ati-drivers would do it? I did an 'emerge ati-drivers' but didn't help.
Any help much appreciated. |
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Minos
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| Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 1:37 am Post subject: |
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You don't want ati-drivers, you want x11-drm with VIDEO_CARDS="mach64". The ati-drivers fglrx driver only supports radeon chipsets. My laptop has the Mach64-based Rage Mobility, and I have the accelerated drivers working with x11-drm-20050502 and
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Section "Device"
Identifier "Rage Mobility"
Driver "ati"
EndSection
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in xorg.conf. |
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Tzuriel
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| Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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I'm still having problems getting this ATI card working.
I have these settigns in my kernel.
Device Drivers ---> Graphics Support
[*] VESA VGA graphics support
[*] ATI Mach64 display support
[*] Mach64 CT/VT/GT/LT (incl. 3d rage support)
[*] Mach64 generic LCD support
... but when I gave this command ...
$ VIDEO_CARDS=j"mach64" emerge x11-drm
... I get these msgs ...
!!! ERROR: x11-base/x11-drm-4.3.0-r7 failed.
!!! Function pkg_setup, Line 70, Exitcode 0
!!! Please link //usr/src/linux to 2.4 kernel sources. X11-drm does not yet work w/ 2.6 kernels, use the DRM in the kernel.
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Is there anything else I'm missing?
Any help much appreciated. |
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Minos
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| Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Tzuriel wrote: | I have these settigns in my kernel.
Device Drivers ---> Graphics Support
[*] VESA VGA graphics support
[*] ATI Mach64 display support
[*] Mach64 CT/VT/GT/LT (incl. 3d rage support)
[*] Mach64 generic LCD support
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These options are for the framebuffer console. I remember I had to fiddle with those to get the framebuffer working right, but they don't apply to X.
| Tzuriel wrote: | ... but when I gave this command ...
$ VIDEO_CARDS=j"mach64" emerge x11-drm
... I get these msgs ...
!!! ERROR: x11-base/x11-drm-4.3.0-r7 failed.
!!! Function pkg_setup, Line 70, Exitcode 0
!!! Please link //usr/src/linux to 2.4 kernel sources. X11-drm does not yet work w/ 2.6 kernels, use the DRM in the kernel.
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You'll need to use a newer version of x11-drm. The mach64 driver is not in the kernel yet, unfortunately, but recent DRI snapshots will build against 2.6 kernels. I have
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in /etc/portage/package.keywords because the mach64 driver is still somewhat experimental. |
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