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ramin.honary
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| randalf wrote: | You've got an ATI Rage 128 graphics card in your Powerbook?
You should probably unset "CONFIG_DRM_R128".
Did you run Xorgautoconfig?
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Thanks for responding! And I did remove CONFIG_DRM_R128 from my kernel configuration, re-compiled the kernel and re-installed the kernel. So far, no problems. Then, I uncerimoniously unmerged X.org and my radeon driver and re-emerged them all.
Then I emerged "xorgautoconfig" and ran it, and it generated a configuration file. Now I can start X and I am using a graphical interface right now without any real problems, but it is STILL not using DRM. I checked the configuration and DRM wasn't included into the configuration by "Xorgautoconfig".
Despite all my re-compiling, absolutely nothing has changed, except the configuration file itself which was generated by "Xorgautoconfig". So, running GLXGears still gives me only 30-40 FPS. |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 10:40 am Post subject: |
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| What are your USE-Flags for xorg-server and what have you set in your /etc/make.conf VIDEO_CARDS -Section? |
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ramin.honary
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| randalf wrote: | | What are your USE-Flags for xorg-server and what have you set in your /etc/make.conf VIDEO_CARDS -Section? |
Sorry for taking so long to reply.
In "/etc/make.conf" I set But in "/etc/portage/package.use" I did not set any use flags for "x11-base/xorg-server". Should I have set it to "xorg"?
Should I try recompiling with that use flag set? |
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gringo
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:43 am Post subject: |
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that makes no sense actually :
a) the variable is called VIDEO_CARDS
b) fglrx ( ati´s binary driver) isn´t available for ppc arch
in case your powerbook has a Rage 128, VIDEO_CARDS="r128" should do it, if it is a radeon card VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" and so on.
Re-read the documentation and triplecheck your make.conf for other things, add that to your make.conf and rebuild stuff ( emerge -avN should tell you which ones). Maybe it would be a good idea to show us your make.conf before you start compiling in order to check if everything is in place.
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ramin.honary
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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It worked!
| gringo wrote: | that makes no sense actually :
a) the variable is called VIDEO_CARDS
b) fglrx ( ati´s binary driver) isn´t available for ppc arch
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Sorry, I mistook the name of that variable, ineed it was "VIDEO_CARDS", but it was set to "fglrx".
| gringo wrote: | in case your powerbook has a Rage 128, VIDEO_CARDS="r128" should do it, if it is a radeon card VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" and so on.
Re-read the documentation and triplecheck your make.conf for other things, add that to your make.conf and rebuild stuff ( emerge -avN should tell you which ones). Maybe it would be a good idea to show us your make.conf before you start compiling in order to check if everything is in place. |
Running "lspci" tells me I have a radeon card. So I set the variable VIDEO_CARDS="radeon", re-emerged "x11-base/xorg-server" and then rebooted my machine and now it works! "Glxgears" is going at full speed (considering the radeon driver can't make use of the radeon OpenGL extensions.)
I checked the Genoo Linux PPC handbook and there is no mention of setting the "VIDEO_CARDS" variable anywhere. I can only imaging that while I was trying to solve my problem, Google pointed me to gentoo's X11 handbook for i386 architectures, and I used the information from that incorrectly to set my "VIDEO_CARDS" variable to "fglrx". Someone who can make changes to the manual might want to make a note of that.
Well, my most sincerest thanks to everyone who helped me solve this problem! My system is nearly complete. |
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gringo
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| Quote: | | I checked the Genoo Linux PPC handbook and there is no mention of setting the "VIDEO_CARDS" variable anywhere. I can only imaging that while I was trying to solve my problem, Google pointed me to gentoo's X11 handbook for i386 architectures, and I used the information from that incorrectly to set my "VIDEO_CARDS" variable to "fglrx". Someone who can make changes to the manual might want to make a note of that. |
But there is also the ppc faq which you should have read too -> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-ppc-faq.xml .
but yes, if thats true someone should make a note or sth.
| Quote: | | Running "lspci" tells me I have a radeon card. So I set the variable VIDEO_CARDS="radeon", re-emerged "x11-base/xorg-server" and then rebooted my machine and now it works! "Glxgears" is going at full speed (considering the radeon driver can't make use of the radeon OpenGL extensions.) |
check above linked faq, you will find a few more things you need to check 
Mesa also needs to be rebuilt btw, it has the VIDEO_CARDS USE too. Use emerge -avN to see which packages have modified USEs.
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ramin.honary
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| Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject: [solved] |
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| gringo wrote: | | Quote: | | I checked the Genoo Linux PPC handbook and there is no mention of setting the "VIDEO_CARDS" variable anywhere. |
But there is also the ppc faq which you should have read too -> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-ppc-faq.xml .
but yes, if thats true someone should make a note or sth.
check above linked faq, you will find a few more things you need to check
Mesa also needs to be rebuilt btw, it has the VIDEO_CARDS USE too. Use emerge -avN to see which packages have modified USEs. |
You're right, I looked at the FAQ and towards the bottom in the section called "What is required for DRM?", it says you need to set VIDEO_CARDS="radeon".
I should also say, should anyone else ever benefit from this thread, I did do an "emerge --newuse world" after I re-emerged "x11-base/xorg-server", so that's why it worked so nicely after I rebooted my machine.
OK, I didn't start this thread but I marked this post as [SOLVED] |
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