[gentoo-amd64] Re: Xorg issue now after update!

[Duncan]

B Vance <bvance@×××××.ca> posted
1147532778.3543.4.camel@×××××××××××.ShadowRealm, excerpted below, on  Sat,
13 May 2006 11:06:18 -0400:

> To make a long story short, the ABI was changed in Xorg-server-1.0.99
> which killed the use of the ATI and NVIDIA produced drivers.  Hopefully
> NVIDIA and ATI will update their drivers soon.  Here is the forum link:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-458721-highlight-xorgserver.html?sid=8311ca3b38f7e82539139900722afd83

Correct, and a bit of a pain, only xorg-server-1.0.99.90X indicates the
version for xorg-7.1-rcX.  Those are entirely masked, not just ~arch
masked.  If you look at his log, it's xorg-7.0, not 7.1, so anyway, he
hadn't merged the 7.1-rcs, so that shouldn't be the problem.

However, the jump to modular xorg, xorg 7.0, also caused some disturbance
with the binary-only drivers.  Personally, I won't run binary-only and I
have a Radeon 9200 series which was the last one they released sufficient
info on to do proper 3D drivers, so I'm not the one to ask about those.

BTW, xorg 7.1 and beyond include experimental 3D drivers (reverse
engineered) for at least some of the later ATI cards.  Once the full
release comes, it might be worth trying that, altho one will likely have
to unmask the Gentoo builds for awhile until they are satisfied they work
for most  folks, in which case they'll go to ~arch.  Meanwhile, I can
certainly sympathize with having an unsupported 3D card, unless you want
to run binary drivers, which isn't the best solution in several ways. 
However, I really don't have an answer or recommendation at this point, if
3D is needed.  Of course, if not, the recommendation is to go with the
~arch 7.0.

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