Re: [gentoo-amd64] New ATI proprietary driver

[Mark Knecht]

Hi Chris,
   It would help a lot to be specific about revision numbers.

   On one of my MythTV frontend IA-32 machines I'm now using 8.29.6. It
solved a LOT of problems that we were having with 8.28.8 which was horrible.
That said it still has really bad 'tearing' problems and frustrates
everyone. Unfortunately there hasn't been much headway using S-Video outputs
with the Open Source driver so we're forced to use ATI for now.

   Unfortunately none of this is 64-bit so it may not be very interesting to
you.

Cheers,
Mark

On 11/13/06, Chris Traylor <ctraylor@××××××××.com> wrote:
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>  Has anybody tried the new ATI driver? I did the emerge, and everything
> seemed fine. However, when I go to log in, any keypress or mouse click
> crashes the entire system. If I switch from the fglrx driver to the open
> source radeon driver everything works (or at least the things that the xorg
> driver supports, seems to work). I tried updating qt,kde, and reinstalling
> xorg 7.1, but all to no avail. I haven't gotten to trudging through the X
> logs yet, but I figured I'd go fishing for ideas, just in case, someone ran
> across this as well. Any ideas (sans a lecture about slaveryware from
> Duncan) would be appreciated.
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>   Chris
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