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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mesa build failure
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:45:05
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0906271545u46d0b37ah9c9a387f4fcd243f@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: mesa build failure by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
2 > On 06/28/2009 01:30 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
3 >>
4 >> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de>
5 >>  wrote:
6 >>>
7 >>> On 06/28/2009 12:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
8 >>>>
9 >>>> As far as the bug report went it just didn't click for me.
10 >>>> Disappointing that after something like 10 months no one has fixed the
11 >>>> ebuild.
12 >>>
13 >>> The latter ebuilds are fixed.  They're still ~arch, but I recommend you
14 >>> use
15 >>> them because the latter driver versions are substantially less buggy than
16 >>> the arch ones.  If you have a older card (anything less or equal to a
17 >>> Radeon
18 >>> X1950) use ati-drivers-8.593. If you a Radeon HD2000 and above, use
19 >>> ati-drivers-9.6.
20 >>>
21 >>
22 >> Nikos,
23 >>    Thanks for responding. I apprecaite it.
24 >>
25 >> ~arch on xf86-video-ati, xorg-server or both? I prefer to stay with
26 >> non-~arch when possible.
27 >>
28 >> I've got a 9100 IGP which is listed as R200 technology. I need to use
29 >> the TV Out S-Video on my machine but cannot find very good
30 >> instructions on creating the right xorg.conf file.
31 >
32 > No wait, you were talking about xf86-video-ati, not ati-drivers.  Please
33 > ignore :P  Sorry.
34 >
35
36 OK - no problem. Sorry for any confusion.
37
38 Cheers,
39 Mark