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Bug 40208 - Inform users on VIDEO_CARDS variable in install instructions
Summary: Inform users on VIDEO_CARDS variable in install instructions
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs-user
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Handbook (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2004-02-02 11:51 UTC by Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED)
Modified: 2004-02-07 03:52 UTC (History)
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Description Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-02-02 11:51:26 UTC 
Suggestion made by Craig Lawson through e-mail:

The installation instructions should tell the users to set the VIDEO_CARDS variable (based on the IUSE_VIDEO_CARDS in xfree-drm ebuild) if the user needs to use xfree-drm.
Comment 1 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-02-02 11:57:24 UTC 
Should prolly get lines added to make.conf.example about it, really.
Comment 2 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-02-02 12:33:09 UTC 
Why not throw in LINGUAS while we're at it?
Comment 3 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-02-02 23:53:32 UTC 
Isn't that for desktop rather than installation? I don't know any ebuilds that requires LINGUAS to be set that is referenced in the installation instructions.
Comment 4 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-02-07 03:52:39 UTC 
I've added an extra line to the xfree-drm explanation that the user should check the IUSE_VIDEO_CARDS variable in the xfree-drm ebuilds to see what he/she needs to fill in.

I'm marking this one as FIXED.