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From: Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati from git?
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 07:11:36
Message-Id: 4D39313E.7070008@asyr.hopto.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati from git? by Thanasis
1 on 01/21/2011 09:07 AM Thanasis wrote the following:
2 > on 01/20/2011 06:15 PM Mark Knecht wrote the following:
3 >> Hi,
4 >> I'm interested in how I would go about getting the xf86-video-ati
5 >> package from git? I would like to try the newest driver, if possible,
6 >> as it is apparently the reason I don't have 3d rendering enabled on my
7 >> HD5750 Evergreen card.
8 >>
9 >> Is there a good Wiki on how to do this? Also, how does one match a
10 >> video driver from git with the right version of xorg-server, etc. I'm
11 >> currently using 1.9.2. I see there are ~mad64 versions of 1.9.3 in
12 >> portage but I don't know if I need them.
13 >>
14 > I don't know about git, but I have a Sapphire HD5770 1GB, using
15 > x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.9, x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.3.901, with
16 > 2.6.37-gentoo sources (~amd64 and no-multilib) without problems.
17 ...and forgot to say x11-drivers/ati-drivers-10.12 (Driver "fglrx")