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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded "xf86-ENOMEM" error
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:36:07
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0508251729143d835a@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded "xf86-ENOMEM" error by maxim wexler
1 On 8/25/05, maxim wexler <blissfix@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > Another thing,
4 >
5 > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-353295-highlight-xf86enomem.html
6 >
7 > all seem to be complaining about DRM failure but
8 > according to the gentoo-radeon-faq:
9 >
10 > * Device drivers -> Character Devices -> Direct
11 > Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI
12 > support): DISABLED
13 > This option is not required, and will almost
14 > certainly prevent the driver from working if enabled.
15 >
16 > So in my config it's not set. Is the faq wrong?
17 >
18 > -mw
19 >
20
21 Depends on which FAQ and which driver. For the fglrx driver I
22 think/I'm sure it has to be disabled.
23
24 As for ati-drivers it seems you are getting one older then I'm using:
25
26 flash ~ # emerge -pv ati-drivers
27
28 These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
29
30 Calculating dependencies ...done!
31 [ebuild R ] media-video/ati-drivers-8.14.13-r2 +opengl 0 kB
32
33 Total size of downloads: 0 kB
34 flash ~ #
35
36 Do an emerge sync I think.
37
38 Good luck,
39 Mark
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