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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: mesa build failure
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:40:18
Message-Id: h266ui$28k$2@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mesa build failure by Mark Knecht
1 On 06/28/2009 01:30 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
3 >> On 06/28/2009 12:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
4 >>> As far as the bug report went it just didn't click for me.
5 >>> Disappointing that after something like 10 months no one has fixed the
6 >>> ebuild.
7 >> The latter ebuilds are fixed. They're still ~arch, but I recommend you use
8 >> them because the latter driver versions are substantially less buggy than
9 >> the arch ones. If you have a older card (anything less or equal to a Radeon
10 >> X1950) use ati-drivers-8.593. If you a Radeon HD2000 and above, use
11 >> ati-drivers-9.6.
12 >>
13 >
14 > Nikos,
15 > Thanks for responding. I apprecaite it.
16 >
17 > ~arch on xf86-video-ati, xorg-server or both? I prefer to stay with
18 > non-~arch when possible.
19 >
20 > I've got a 9100 IGP which is listed as R200 technology. I need to use
21 > the TV Out S-Video on my machine but cannot find very good
22 > instructions on creating the right xorg.conf file.
23
24 No wait, you were talking about xf86-video-ati, not ati-drivers. Please
25 ignore :P Sorry.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mesa build failure Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>