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On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Harry Holt <harryholt@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I went to compile the proprietary drivers today from the ati-drivers emerge, |
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> but nothing up to and including 8.582 will compile do to error: |
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> * The die message: |
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> * ati-drivers-8.582 requires support for pci_find_slot. |
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> There is a bug about this here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/248118 but oddly |
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> enough it's status is "RESOLVED" even though it's not. I don't know if this |
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> error exists upstream or not, but I may try installing the 9.3 version from |
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> ATI just to find out (if I can get through it). I know the Debian version |
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> in "squeeze" works but it's a newer version as far as I can tell (version |
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> numbers are really inconsistent). |
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> Anyway, has anyone else had this problem? Is there a way around it without |
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> turning on PCI_LEGACY in the kernel? |
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Apparently the resolution was to put the message in the ebuild that |
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you need to enable those kernel options. UNUSED_SYMBOLS and PCI_LEGACY |
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appear to be required. |
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