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| From: | Alexander Puchmayr <alexander.puchmayr@×××××××.at> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone installed x11-drivers/ati-drivers recently? (Fails to download) | ||
| Date: | Sat, 23 Nov 2013 10:36:03 | ||
| Message-Id: | 1686049.OfibKaQ1Mt@zeus | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone installed x11-drivers/ati-drivers recently? (Fails to download) by walt |
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| 1 | On Friday 22 November 2013, 17:20:36 walt wrote: |
| 2 | > On 11/22/2013 10:56 AM, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: |
| 3 | > > Hi there, |
| 4 | > > |
| 5 | > > I have no clue why downloading ati-drivers fails. I always get redirected |
| 6 | > > to http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/incomplete |
| 7 | > > no matter what version of ati-drivers I want to install. |
| 8 | > |
| 9 | > Problems like that are sometimes caused by gentoo mirror servers that |
| 10 | > are having technical problems. |
| 11 | > |
| 12 | > Are you having similar trouble with any other packages? |
| 13 | > |
| 14 | No |
| 15 | |
| 16 | > You can specify your preferred mirrors by adding a line like this to |
| 17 | > your make.conf file: |
| 18 | > |
| 19 | > GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu |
| 20 | > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" |
| 21 | > |
| 22 | |
| 23 | Thanks for the suggestion. I installed netselect, changed the mirrors and now |
| 24 | it works :-) |
| 25 | |
| 26 | Alex |