[gentoo-desktop] Re: xf86-video-ati-6.8.0 ?

[Duncan]

Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> posted pan.2008.03.04.20.15.30@×××.net,
excerpted below, on  Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:15:31 +0000:

> emerge --pretend =xf86-video-ati-6.8.0
>
> [snip]
> - x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.8.0 (masked by: package.mask)
> /p/profiles/package.mask:
> # Joshua Baergen <joshuabaergen@g.o> (27 Mar 2007) # Release
> candidate ATI driver
>
>
> If I may, that's not a release candidate any more

> I suppose I'll soon see, as I'm going to be unmasking it to try...
> probably later today, if nobody's yelling DON'T, IT'LL EAT YOUR DATA or
> the like, by then.

Followup:

Well, it was a few days, but I did try it, and didn't get it working to 
my satisfaction, either.  Either it craps out with a traceback, or I get 
tiny resolution (1024x768, apparently cloned; I normally run dual 
1600x1200, stacked for 1600x2400).

Among other things, no more merged framebuffer, so I had to disable that, 
trying with and without xinerama instead, the thing was going with a 
small virtual so I tried to increase that, but it still didn't want to 
give me anything but 1024x768, or, with the second screen config and 
xinerama enabled, the traceback (and disabled DRI according to the log 
even if I did NOT get the traceback).

So yeah, it seems you were right about the tracebacks, Donnie.  Maybe 
I'll get time to debug it further in cooperation with the xorg guys, 
maybe not, but right now, yes, at least for Radeon 9200 vintage cards, my 
experience appears to match yours.

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