Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 04:12:36PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > Perhaps you have google-earth installed, or some other app that > requires hardware 3D. That's what happened to me: > GoogleEarth runs fine with the x11 radeon driver on my laptop, FWIW. So I doubt this would be a cause. W -- If you buy the paperback version of Maxwell's _Treatise_, on the cover, this diagram is drawn... worked out in the 1870's, without a pocket calculator... ~Prof. Kirk T. McDonald, DeathEM, P-town PHY 304 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 18 days, 11:21 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 16:12, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Nope, not the reason either. :-) VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf > > set to "radeon" only. > > Perhaps you have google-earth installed, or some other app that > requires hardware 3D. That's what happened to me: > > gentoo ~ # equery depends ati-drivers > [ Searching for packages depending on ati-drivers... ] > x11-misc/googleearth-4_beta > x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1 Not really. xorg-x11 requires ati-drivers only if you have fglrx in VIDEO_CARDS (or video_cards_fglrx in use flags) and googlearth has a dependency (on amd64) on any of the following: # cat /usr/portage/x11-misc/googleearth/googleearth-4_beta.ebuild [...] RDEPEND=[...] [...] || ( >=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-7.0 >=media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-r3 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers >=x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.8.25-r1 ) [...] If *any* of those packages are installed the requirement is satisfied and it won't pull in any others. If none are installed it will install the first on the list (>=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-7.0). Hence it will never pull ati-drivers in... -- Bo Andresen pgpFRrcIVvZF9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:41, Colleen Beamer wrote: > Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:09, Colleen Beamer wrote: > >> Why would portage want to install ati-drivers when it is > >> not on my system, not in my package.keywords file and not > >> in my world file? > > > > Because VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf includes fglrx? If > > you are still confused please post the output of: > > > > # grep ^VIDEO_CARDS /etc/make.conf > > Nope, not the reason either. :-) VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf > set to "radeon" only. Perhaps you have google-earth installed, or some other app that requires hardware 3D. That's what happened to me: gentoo ~ # equery depends ati-drivers [ Searching for packages depending on ati-drivers... ] x11-misc/googleearth-4_beta x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1 alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers
On 9/12/06, Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:09, Colleen Beamer wrote: >> Why would portage want to install ati-drivers when it is not on my >> system, not in my package.keywords file and not in my world file? > > Because VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf includes fglrx? If you are still > confused please post the output of: > > # grep ^VIDEO_CARDS /etc/make.conf Nope, not the reason either. :-) VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf set to "radeon" only. maybe equery depends ati-drivers ? (Or some form of that command?) - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:41, Colleen Beamer wrote: > Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:09, Colleen Beamer wrote: > >> Why would portage want to install ati-drivers when it is not on my > >> system, not in my package.keywords file and not in my world file? > > > > Because VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf includes fglrx? If you are still > > confused please post the output of: > > > > # grep ^VIDEO_CARDS /etc/make.conf > > Nope, not the reason either. :-) VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf set to > "radeon" only. Hmm... how about: # grep video_cards /etc/make.conf /etc/portage/package.use ? Otherwise emerge --tree is your friend to see what pulls it in. -- Bo Andresen pgpYKiW2pT8Hk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:09, Colleen Beamer wrote: >> Why would portage want to install ati-drivers when it is not on my >> system, not in my package.keywords file and not in my world file? > > Because VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf includes fglrx? If you are still > confused please post the output of: > > # grep ^VIDEO_CARDS /etc/make.conf Nope, not the reason either. :-) VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf set to "radeon" only. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ati-drivers
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:09, Colleen Beamer wrote: > Why would portage want to install ati-drivers when it is not on my > system, not in my package.keywords file and not in my world file? Because VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf includes fglrx? If you are still confused please post the output of: # grep ^VIDEO_CARDS /etc/make.conf # emerge --info | grep ^USE -- Bo Andresen pgppjCu4oCSJ9.pgp Description: PGP signature
