Posts by xiphux

No, I have an 8887, Radeon R250 Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9].

Linux can boot from any kind of partition. You can't really "slow down" the kernel messages, but you can review them with dmesg (something like "dmesg -s40000 | less"). However, you should do this as soon as you...

mplayerplug-in: http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/ works for quicktime and wmv formats. (anything mplayer plays) And I use helix for realmedia files. Haven't really run into a file I can't play yet.

That's weird, ati-drivers work for me with dri in the kernel. In fact, I have both an fglrx (ati-drivers) and radeon (DRI) module for my particular sources, and switch at will with just a modprobe or two, an opengl-update and a symlink...

Ok, I'll sticky it if you want.

Tainting the kernel just means that you're using a proprietary kernel module, while linux is supposed to be GPL. I can't really help you with the screen resolution, because I don't have a non-standard lcd... That's strange though,...

I'm not sure how much you have/haven't done, but the basic gist is: Get the driver from ati.com. Install it with "rpm -ivh fglrx-whatever.rpm". In /usr/src, make sure your current kernel sources are symlinked at...

Quote: Originally Posted by thinknot Hi guys, I just joined the forums as I've got a 5680 on order and am something of a gentoo fanatic. I just thought I'd add by way of introduction that if you're worried about the...

Do you mean running the entire system off of ram, or just certain directories? Sometimes I mount certain directories into tmpfs if I want the speed. (for example, I mount /tmp and /var/tmp if I'm doing an emerge that doesn't require a...

No, because the 0.12.3 ebuild isn't technically in the portage tree (yet). So when you emerge 0.12.3, it'll try to get the file from the mirrors, won't find it, and then resort to the real source...