On 10/25/2011 12:58 AM, Mick wrote:
Does this need adding to /etc/make.conf?
Yes. Everyone who uses an AMD card should have "radeon" in VIDEO_CARDS,
followed by either "r300" or "r600". Of course only when we're taking
about the X.Org drivers. If you're going to use the Catalyst
proprietary drivers, you should put "fglrx" in VIDEO_CARDS.
OK, I've added it and I'm remerging mesa to see what difference it makes.
If mesa doesn't get automatically rebuilt (changing VIDEO_CARDS counts
as a USE flags change, so "emerge -uDN world" will pick it up), then
that means you're using a version of mesa that doesn't recognize "r600".
I'm on mesa-9999 (one of the very few live ebuilds I use). Now that I
checked this, it's the only version to recognize "r300" and "r600" in
VIDEO_CARDS. However, that also means that future release versions of
mesa will also recognize them (the live ebuilds are always a precursor
of things to come.) So adding "r300" or "r600" now doesn't hurt and
will ensure you don't forget to do so later when mesa 7.12 (or 8.0?)
comes out.
