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On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 22:10 -0400, Joseph Jezak wrote: |
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> David Gurvich wrote: |
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> > For xorg you need to place the following in make.conf |
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> > VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" #Thats for the video driver |
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> > INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" #optionally you could add evdev to test. |
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> > If you decide to use xorg-7.1: |
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> > The ati driver patch is here for xf86-video-ati-6.6.2. |
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> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146706 |
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> > All it does is some sanity checking. Otherwise, the driver assumes an x86 |
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> > VESA Bios and generates useless values. Developers are waiting on the patch |
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> > to see if this or something else is used upstream. |
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> It's also not needed on all ATI cards (works fine here without it), |
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> I'd give it a try before patching. |
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As of around 16 hours ago version 6.6.3 of the driver hit the tree that |
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seems to fix the open issues. |
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--Dan |