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On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> On 06/25/2009 04:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>>> I thought emerge xf86-video-ati, then swapping Driver "flgrx" to Driver |
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>>> "radeon" in xorg.conf was all that is required?? |
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>> No, I need a new kernel also. The kernel on this machine is 2 years |
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>> old. Also, I have about a dozen packages masked so I've unmasked those |
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>> and will need to get the whole machine up to date. |
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>> None the less I'm happy to do it if there's any chance it will work. |
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> If it works, better make sure you keep the system up to date. Gentoo will |
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> bark and bite you at some point if you don't; I'm sure you figured that out |
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> by now :P |
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Except for being forced into all these old kernel and video packages |
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the machine has been kept up to date. Now it will be completely up to |
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date. :-) |
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The new kernel booted the first time and except for me forgetting to |
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enable the correct NIC things looked good. I added the 3c590 and now |
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can get to it over ssh. emerge -DuN @world will take a few hours as |
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there are a number of packages to update. |
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Tomorrow I will delve into the newer Open Source ATI driver and see |
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how things go. Wish me luck. |
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cheers, |
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Mark |
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