Hi Ward. Thank you for your clarification. Just to be sure I have undestood right.
The document says: " Since 22 Oct 2008, Gentoo switched all ebuilds to the upstream naming: x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel. The ebuild xf86-video-i810 no longer exists. To switch, set the VIDEO_CARDS variable to intel in your /etc/make.conf. See VIDEO_CARDS for further instructions. " When it says "to switch set the VIDEO_CARDS", I thought it meant "since Gentoo switched all ebuilds to the upstream naming x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel, if you want to switch to the old xf86-video-i810, set the VIDEO_CARDS variable to intel ...." So, your answer made me a little bit confused about that 'if you want to switch'. Maybe they mean 'if you want to switch to the new x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel'? But, if "Gentoo switched all ebuilds to the upstream naming: x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel", isn't that the default one? Surely I miss something... Thank you very much, Massimiliano On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Ward Poelmans <wpoel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 17:50, Massimiliano > Ziccardi<massimiliano.zicca...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > However (but maybe I've understood wrong), it says that I have to define > > that variable only if I want to use the old xf86-video-i810 name. If I > don't > > define that, I should use the new name (xf86-video-intel). > > Do I get any improvement using the old one (and, is that a good idea?) ? > > No, it says you should set that variable regardless of what driver you use. > > Ward > >
