Re: RE: Installing Gentoo on a Powermac G5

David Gurvich wrote:
> For xorg you need to place the following in make.conf 
> VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" #Thats for the video driver 
> INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" #optionally you could add evdev to test.
> 
> If you decide to use  xorg-7.1:
> 
> The ati driver patch is here for xf86-video-ati-6.6.2. 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146706
> All it does is some sanity checking.  Otherwise, the driver assumes an x86 
> VESA Bios and generates useless values.  Developers are waiting on the patch 
> to see if this or something else is used upstream.

It's also not needed on all ATI cards (works fine here without it),
I'd give it a try before patching.

-Joe
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