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On Saturday 25 September 2004 01:24 pm, Mike C. Fletcher wrote: |
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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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I've got no idea about the timeline for the upstream GATOS merge. I do have a |
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working ebuild for ati-4.4.0 against X.org 6.7.0 and I was able to make a |
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trivial patch to allow it to build against 6.8.0, so whenever I get a chance |
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(which probably means whenever I get usable Internet access at school |
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*cough*) I will push the files and ebuild up. |
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I apologize for not having done this earlier. I was planning to do it during |
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the first week of college, but our network is being overrun by viruses and |
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it's still rarely up. I've been told by staffers that it could be sorta up as |
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early as Monday afternoon, so I'll try my best to get the job done then. |
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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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I'm the same way with Futurama and Family Guy...and Gamecube...and |
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MXC...perhaps I should cut back a little... |
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Back on-topic, if you want any more help or info about GATOS with Gentoo, feel |
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free to email me. |
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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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> ________________________________________________ |
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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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