graphics

[vinceASPECT]

hello there,

is it the case that most tinycore users don't need to do anything about graphics
when TCL boots to the desktop?

for example, we know that many Laptops etc have Radeon or intel graphics chips.

many machines from the last 10 years.....and to date

so why does a user load Xorg on TCL?.......is it to improve the Laptops graphics for 3d etc
and does it also pull in the bespoke radeon or intel  drivers when Xorg  kicks off?


i just wondered?...how one knows if TCL is indeed using the best graphics drivers from it's repo for that machine?

for example, how does the stuff above affect TCL 64 bit?.....which has a framebuffer as the default graphics platform on boot?

thx

v

what's the whole business with .......Wayland, weston and vulkan etc?......i see various graphics related files in TCL repo........

[brunok]

Hi,

Xvesa is default X server for TCL.

If you want add more recurses, you need install Xorg and driver for your card.


Xorg:

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tce-load -wi Xorg-7.7.tcz
Graphic drivers:

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xf86-video-amdgpu.tcz
xf86-video-ati.tcz
xf86-video-intel.tcz
xf86-video-nouveau.tcz
xf86-video-nv.tcz
xf86-video-vesa.tcz
xf86-video-vmware.tcz


[vinceASPECT]

yes brun...

the amd driver seems to cause this machine to crash.....even although it's info page lists this particular graphics chip

i will keep trying......

V

[jazzbiker]

Hi, vinceASPECT!

I may be wrong, but my experince in the past showed that in order to run graphics-KERNEL.tcz flawless on one of my machines with AMD APU I needed to load firmware-radeon.tcz preliminarily. There is already firmware-amdgpu.tcz in repo, if You know what video hardware is installed on Your machine You can read .info and .list files and choose the corresponding firmware extension.

Have a nice Core!