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):
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Follow the docs till you’re blue in the face, specifically:
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stage 3 install
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get beginning packages from CD’s saves some time
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in
/etc/make.conf
, set some USE vars:radeon gnome gtk2 -kde -qt mysql -ldap
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timezone
EST5EDT
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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)
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continue with above instructions, get xfree-drm
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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.
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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