On 04/10/2010 07:13 PM, Daniel Klaffenbach wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
I can't find a package called libdrm_radeon in portage. Is this
possibly part of xorg-server-1.7? I do have libdrm and xf86-video-ati
but neither show a kms flag.
libdrm with "VIDEO_CARDS=radeon" should be fine.
Again maybe that's on newer versions?
You should either use libdrm-9999 or at least libdrm-2.4.20.
I'm not against going to a testing xorg-server but a number of Gentoo
people are having trouble so I wouldn't go there without a good
reason.
You can use the keyworded xorg-server package from the official portage
tree (1.7.*). I'm not having any problems with it. But I guess if you
want you could also stick with 1.6.5 for now.
I'll investigate unmasking
the newer stuff, but I don't see libdrm_radeon anywhere as of yet.
You only need to unmask kernel 2.6.24, xf86-video-ati-9999, libdrm-9999
(or 2.4.20) and mesa-9999 (recommended).
BTW: the "-9999" ebuilds come from the X11 overlay.
These look like some fine Gentoo-specific tips, Mark.
I do not know about 5xxx and firmware, but with my 3870 I need to
compile some firmware-blob into the kernel (option in kernel config).
Maybe this also applies to 5xxx cards.
Firmware files have become available for Evergreen cards, and recent
commits to the special "drm-radeon-testing" and "drm-next" git trees
make it necessary for the firmware to be used. However, I don't believe
that those commits have been incorporated to the 2.6.34-rc3 kernel.
Maybe David Airlie or Alex Deucher could respond to this issue more
definitively?
Dave W.
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