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queen
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 Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 4:13 pm Post subject: Why do I have so many xf86-video-* ? |
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I found out that there are many xf86-video drivers installed. I am not sure how they were installed and which ones I really need. Some of them I know I need, others I'm out of ideas. Here is the list of xf86-video installed and the graphic cards that I have.
| Code: | lspci |grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Thames XT/GL [Radeon HD 7600M Series]
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[I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati
[I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-dummy
[I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev
[I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-glint
[I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel
[I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-mach64
[I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-mga
[I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-neomagic
[I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv
[I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-openchrome
[I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-r128
[I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-savage
[I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis
[I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-tdfx
[I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-trident
[I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-v4l
[I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa
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I understand the intel and ati driver (which I installed the proprietary one) and v4l (which I enabled in the kernel, but what about the rest of them? |
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aCOSwt
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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post the output of | Code: | | # emerge --info | grep VIDEO_CARDS |
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queen
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| aCOSwt wrote: | post the output of | Code: | | # emerge --info | grep VIDEO_CARDS |
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| Code: | USE="acl alsa amd64 berkdb bluetooth bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 mmx modules mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl openmp pam pcre pppd readline session sse sse2 ssl tcpd unicode zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0,intel8x0m" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en,he" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_2 python2_7" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU"[b] VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx,intel" [/b]XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
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Something weird also happens I get a black screen. Nothing happens. xdm is added to default run-level and it should invoke kdm login manager. |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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queen,
| Code: | | VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx,intel" |
close .. its a space separated list, just like USE.
I suspect you got all of the video drivers as there isn't one that matches your single item.
fglrx is the binary blob for your ATI card.
intel is correct for your intel graphics.
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queen
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | queen,
| Code: | | VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx,intel" |
close .. its a space separated list, just like USE.
I suspect you got all of the video drivers as there isn't one that matches your single item.
fglrx is the binary blob for your ATI card.
intel is correct for your intel graphics. |
fglrx I wanted to install. I corrected the syntax. I"ll report back tomorrow how it works. The question how it pulled all the rest which I don't need. |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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queen,
It matched no video drivers from your list so emerge pulled in the full set.
Thats a change. It used to be that when you did not ask for any video drivers, you got none.
By uses a comma separated list, emerge eas looking for one driver called "fglrx,intel" which does not exist.
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queen
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:23 am Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | queen,
It matched no video drivers from your list so emerge pulled in the full set.
Thats a change. It used to be that when you did not ask for any video drivers, you got none.
By uses a comma separated list, emerge eas looking for one driver called "fglrx,intel" which does not exist. |
I removed the comma and it still gives me a black screen. ;-(
So probably there is another reason too.
In any case I will start removing all the other video cards that were pulled in. |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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queen,
If you wish to use the binary blob fglrx, you must write a xorg.conf file to say so.
Xorg will only try open source drivers on its own. For you, thats radeon and intel.
However, you may not install both radeon and fglrx at the same time as they need different mutually exclusive kernel settings.
Well, you can but you need two kernels with different names to do it.
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queen
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | queen,
If you wish to use the binary blob fglrx, you must write a xorg.conf file to say so.
Xorg will only try open source drivers on its own. For you, thats radeon and intel.
However, you may not install both radeon and fglrx at the same time as they need different mutually exclusive kernel settings.
Well, you can but you need two kernels with different names to do it. |
OK, I didn't know about it. As far as I recall, when I installed the binary ati-drivers it created a xorg.conf with this setting. I will check again xorg.conf to see what it has. I installed according to this:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Fglrx |
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