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From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server blocked by ati-drivers
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 23:46:26
Message-Id: 1178840460.29336.14.camel@orpheus
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server blocked by ati-drivers by James
1 On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 17:27 +0000, James wrote:
2 > Stuart Howard <stuart.g.howard <at> gmail.com> writes:
3 >
4 >
5 > > All versions of the ATI driver are blocking xorg-server 1.3 at the
6 > > moment so you are not going to get around that one easily.
7 > > If you look at the --tree to find out what package is asking for the
8 > > upgrade of xorg-server and then mask that? this may help.
9 >
10 >
11 > Ok,
12
13 I just compiled xorg-server like this:
14
15 conf_opts="--with-release-major=7 --with-release-minor=2" emerge
16 xorg-server
17
18 and I use x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.36.5 from my overlay.
19
20 works fine.
21
22 see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-554798.html
23
24 HTH,
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26 Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
27
28 The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank.
29 -- Scotty
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