Gentoooooooooooooooooooooo
Jimminy Christmas!
Everything was paddling along smoothly until I hit this little hiccup, I’ve got an ATI RADEON card, which is apparently a whole pile of badness.
Thank goodness some punks have figured this crap out before me!
Gentoo Install (the chicken-shit I’ve never done this before way):
Follow the docs till you’re blue in the face, specifically:
stage 3 install
get beginning packages from CD’s saves some time
in
/etc/make.conf
, set some USE vars:radeon gnome gtk2 -kde -qt mysql -ldap
timezone
EST5EDT
use genkernel for compile with caveat – I have a stupid radeon, so run genkernel-config, and turn agpgart on, but DRM off:
Processor type and features—> <*> MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support Character devices—> <*> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) [*] all chipsets compiled into kernel (just to be safe) [ ] Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 DRI support)
continue with above instructions, get xfree-drm
cancel the middle of an emerge only if you’re ready to do some serious patchwork. Basically, don’t start unless you’re ready to finish.
not done yet, I’ll let you know
See Hardware 3D Acceleration Guide, which seems to be a more official version of Gentoo Forums :: View topic - Direct rendering (DRI) using XFree-DRM HOWTO