On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 2:18 PM, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > As I seem to have a natural ability to not find the best > /(most accurate) information regarding video cards and drivers, > I thought I'd ask here. > > > I just inherited a new friend (with a gentoo) system > that has this entry in the make.conf file: > VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa" > > > lspci shows this: > 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc > RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G Series] > > So I'm thinking of switching the machine to the ati-drivers. > > Are there any other options? > > > I do not see a radeon driver (using eix radeon) > > so I guess the choices are ati-drivers or vesa? > > I think the system is running on a vesa driver, although > I do not really know the command syntax to discern > exactly which video driver the system is using. > > > Any suggestions are welcome. > > James
The radeon driver is in the kernel/xorg-X11. The ati-drivers package is closed source, proprietary stuff. did you do an lsmod to see what module is running? - Mark
