Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags

2009-08-09 Thread pk
Alex Schuster wrote: direct rendering: Yes Great! I thought OpenGL support were better? And there is power saving. Although I have an onboard card, so I would not have a loud spinning

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags

2009-08-08 Thread Alex Schuster
pk writes: Alex Schuster wrote: So what modules does get loaded? All from your modules section (except for type1), an in total these: glx, extmod, dri, dbe, record, fglrx, kbd, mouse, vgahw, int10, vbe, fglrxdrm, ddc, fb, ramdac, xaa, fglrxdrm, glesx, amdxmm I know this command from when

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags

2009-08-07 Thread Alex Schuster
pk writes: Alex Schuster wrote: I have a Radeon HD 3200 and I am using ati-drivers-8.552-r2. Higher versions did not compile. My kernel is 2.6.28-tuxonice-r3, and with newer kernels I was not able to build any ati-drivers at all. That was a while ago. I tried ati-drivers-9.6 a month ago

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags

2009-08-07 Thread pk
Alex Schuster wrote: I had tried vanilla-sources, with the same results. As expected, there should not be much of a difference. I am not using tuxonice suspend features, but I intend to do so in the future. Hm, ok. I added your stuff, that did not make much of a difference. I had an empty

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags

2009-08-06 Thread Alex Schuster
pk writes: Alex Schuster wrote: Oh, I just see that on my desktop machine xorg-server already got re- compiled without fglrx. I see no adverse effects yet, but then OpenGL never worked really well here. As I understand it the VIDEO_CARDS parameters (fglrx, radeon, etc.) only controls

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags

2009-08-06 Thread pk
Alex Schuster wrote: I have a Radeon HD 3200 and I am using ati-drivers-8.552-r2. Higher versions did not compile. My kernel is 2.6.28-tuxonice-r3, and with newer kernels I was not able to build any ati-drivers at all. That was a while ago. I tried ati-drivers-9.6 a month ago when that came

[gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags

2009-08-05 Thread pk
Hi, When I sync'ed a couple of days ago I got this: x ~ # emerge --with-bdeps y -DupN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r6 VIDEO_CARDS=(-fglrx%*) [ebuild R ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags

2009-08-05 Thread Alex Schuster
pk writes: x ~ # emerge --with-bdeps y -DupN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r6 VIDEO_CARDS=(-fglrx%*) [ebuild R ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.19 USE=(-midi%*) [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags

2009-08-05 Thread pk
Alex Schuster wrote: Oh, I just see that on my desktop machine xorg-server already got re- compiled without fglrx. I see no adverse effects yet, but then OpenGL never worked really well here. As I understand it the VIDEO_CARDS parameters (fglrx, radeon, etc.) only controls what drivers