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From: "Jesús Guerrero" <i92guboj@×××××.es>
To: "Sebastian Beßler" <webmaster@××××××××××××.de>
Cc: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:11:41
Message-Id: c84e2cc21303ac471cf345b38ae86473.squirrel@jesgue.homelinux.org
1 On Fri, July 3, 2009 21:56, Sebastian Beßler wrote:
2 > Jesús Guerrero schrieb:
3 >
4 >
5 >> I really advice to stay in .28 if you are going to use fglrx.
6 >>
7 >
8 > That is exactly what the ebuild says after building with a kernel >2.6.28
9 >
10 >
11 > "Kernels newer then 2.6.28 are heavily patched and might result in
12 > runtime failitures." "Consider them as unsupported by us."
13 > "All bug reports are needed to be tested with 2.6.28 kernel"
14 >
15 >
16 > Besides your bleat here doesn't help at all.
17 > Nobody here on the list has any power to change the way the
18 > ati-developers release there drivers or which kernels are supported.
19 >
20 > If you always want to run the latest kernel a videocard from ati or
21 > nvidia maybe isn't the right for you.
22
23 True. But that's irrelevant to the thread, we are talking about
24 fglrx here.
25
26 I was merely responding to a post that, to say the least, was full
27 of inaccuracies (to say the least, I repeat).
28
29 Or should I just shut up and let spread misinformation just to be
30 decorous?
31
32 Regards.
33 --
34 Jesús Guerrero