[gentoo-dev] Radeon 8500 drivers

[Jonathan Kelly]

Hi there,

I just downloaded the latest Radeon drivers for my 8800 and noticed in the
readme.txt that it stated the drivers were also for the 8500. I've read
elsewhere that you can use the 8800 drivers with the 8500, so if anyone
would like to try, I've got an ebuild ... the only problem is the ftp
server has a password, so you have to download the driver files manually
(and they're in RPM, eewww!)

Is this something that should be put into the distribution??

BTW, the PORTDIR_OVERLAY feature of portage is brilliant, and works a
treat, so far.

Cheers.
Jonathan Kelly.