On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 18:29, Patrick Yager wrote:
> I have purchased the Gentoo cds from their online store for my system. In the
> printed instructions that came with the cds there are two different drivers listed
> for my ATI 8500DV video card: ati-drivers and xfree-drm. Which one of these is
> going to be the best option for me if I want to play a few games (i.e. Quake3 and
> Neverwinter Nights)?
>
> The definitions are as follows: ati-drivers = accelerated ATI Radeon 8500+/FireGL
> graphics for XFree86, and xfree-drm Accelerated graphics for ATI Radeon up to 9200,
> Rage 128, Matrox, Voodoo and other cards for XFree86.
>
> Are there any other hints you guys can offer to get my Radeon up and running for the
> games? (i.e. configs, hints, etc.)
>
>
>
> Thanks!
Patrick,
I'm running a Radeon 9000. I think that the way I've set it up is as
follows:
1) For the kernel, run make xconfig, under character devices I have:
- /dev/agpgart set to modular
- Build drivers for old (XFree 4.0)DRM to no
- for all DRM 4.1 drivers set them to no also
2) In /etc/make.conf I have radeon added the the USE= line
3) emerge both x11-base/xfree and xfree-drm
4) Run xf86config, do the config stuff and choose the ATI Radeon
5) Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and make sure the following are selected:
# This loads the DBE extension module.
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
# This loads the GLX module
Load "glx"
# This loads the DRI module
Load "dri"
Section "Device"
Identifier "** ATI Radeon (generic) [radeon]"
Driver "radeon"
#VideoRam 65536
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
That should get you pretty close. Hopefully I haven't forgotten too
much. ;-)
Cheers,
Mark
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