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I've just been reading a post to gentoo-desktop from July (X fall preview): |
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http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.desktop/1271 |
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which suggests that the ATI gatos drivers are going to be merged into |
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Gentoo "soon" (I assume as part of xorg, since that's the new standard, |
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and it apparently has an xorg version), which I interpret given the |
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title to mean "sometime before the fall". Just wondering if anyone |
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knows whether this is still a "soon" (i.e. hold your horses, we meant |
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sometime *during* the fall, not 4 days in), if something's gone wrong |
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with merging it, or if there's a more concrete timeline. |
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Not trying to be pushy, just trying to decide whether it would be |
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worthwhile to go ahead and try to build gatos with xorg manually (which |
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appears to be a bit messy), or whether I should just wait a few weeks |
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for a new xorg. My little sister can handle a few weeks without |
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television now that she's back in school, but if it gets to be a month |
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without MacGyver there'll be heck to pay :) . |
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Alternately, if anyone has a recipe for building ati-gatos on Gentoo |
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(for amd64 w/ 6.7 kernel and xorg-6.8) that doesn't involve karking up |
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xorg, would be happy to hear about that. |
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Thanks all, |
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Mike |
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>DRIVERS: |
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>ATI and nVidia binary drivers are being maintained and stay current with |
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>upstream. Matrox binary drivers are not doing so well but are updated |
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>occasionally. Kyro binary drivers are largely ignored, and upstream does |
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>not plan to update them for 2.6 kernels. ati-gatos has an X.Org- and |
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>XFree86 4.4-compatible version in testing upstream, planned for |
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>inclusion in Gentoo soon. |
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Mike C. Fletcher |
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Designer, VR Plumber, Coder |
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http://www.vrplumber.com |
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http://blog.vrplumber.com |
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