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Mick writes: |
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> On 25 March 2010 11:50, Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de> |
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> wrote: |
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> > Many thanks, do you have an estimate when 10.4 appears in the tree? |
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> > Helmut. |
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> I can't answer that (as far as I know the devs will only say that it |
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> will appear when it is ready) but I got myself into a pickle with |
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> trying to switch from radeon to fglrx driver, running xorg-server |
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> 1.7.6. |
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I think you have to wait for ati-drivers-10.4 to work with xorg-1.7. |
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> It kept going around in circles with blockers and after |
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> subsequent masking and unmasking I couldn't get it to emerge, so I |
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> went back to the radeon driver. Mind you I did not rebuilt the kernel |
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> at the time and that may be why I was getting 'you can't have these |
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> packages installed at the same time' type of message. |
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With the radeon driver, I only got a blank screen, so I am using ati- |
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drivers. From kernel 2.6.31 on, they are sort of working fine, with GLX |
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and all that. Here is what I had to mask to keep the older x.org 1.6: |
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>=x11-apps/xinput-1.5.0 |
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>=x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.7 |
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>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.7 |
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>=x11-libs/libX11-1.3.2 |
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>=x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.2.0 |
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>=x11-libs/libXext-1.1.1 |
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>=x11-libs/libXi-1.3 |
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>=x11-libs/libXinerama-1.1 |
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>=x11-libs/libXtst-1.1.0 |
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>=x11-libs/libXxf86dga-1.1.1 |
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>=x11-libs/libXxf86vm-1.1.0 |
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>=x11-proto/bigreqsproto-1.1.0 |
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>=x11-proto/fixesproto-4.1.1 |
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>=x11-proto/inputproto-2.0 |
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>=x11-proto/recordproto-1.14 |
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>=x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.2.0 |
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>=x11-proto/xcmiscproto-1.2.0 |
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>=x11-proto/xextproto-7.1.1 |
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>=x11-proto/xf86bigfontproto-1.2.0 |
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>=x11-proto/xf86dgaproto-2.1 |
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>=x11-proto/xf86driproto-2.1.0 |
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>=x11-proto/xf86vidmodeproto-2.3 |
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>=x11-proto/xineramaproto-1.2 |
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>=media-libs/mesa-7.6 |
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> I only wanted to try fglrx, because someone on the Ubuntu forums said |
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> that it stopped their laptop fan from running all the time (mine |
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> starts when the temperature reaches 50C or so and thereafter runs |
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> continuously). |
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That's what I heard, too. Still, I have high CPU loads for the X process |
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when running KDE4 with my Radeon 4200 GPU. |
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Wonko |
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