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On 2006-12-27, Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 2006-12-27, Rumen Yotov <rumen@××××××.org> wrote: |
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>> Grant Edwards HA||UCA: |
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>>> Is there an ati-drivers ebuild that will install a Radeon |
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>>> 9200/9250 compatible driver under 2.6.18? The most recent ATI |
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>>> driver that works with the 9200 series is 8.28.8, but it (and |
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>>> older versions) won't compile "out-of-the-box" under 2.6.18. |
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>> Read the official gentoo-doc about ATI drivers. |
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> I did. |
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>> Could use the Xorg free ATI-drivers. |
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> I used those for a while, but the results were rather poor. |
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> Performance wasn't very good and there were a lot of rendering |
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> glitches. More recently any attempt to do openGL just caused |
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> the X server to segfault, so I had to shut of DRI completely. |
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> After that I gave op on the Xorg ATI-driver and switched to the |
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> ati-drivers package. |
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> But, then when I finally decided to upgrade my kernel, the |
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> "stable" ati-drivers ebuild stopped working. The "testing" |
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> ebuild works, but support for the 9200 series has been removed |
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> from recent drivers by ATI. |
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> The patche required to make 8.28.8 build under 2.6.18 are |
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> trivial (4-5 lines changed). I ought to read up on ebuilds and |
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> submit a patch. |
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I'm currently testing an 8.28.8-r1 ebuild. Once I'm confident |
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I haven't broken anything, I'll post it. |
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Grant Edwards grante Yow! I'm having a |
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