Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-drivers versioning system - I'm confused
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:38:39
Message-Id: 201003251637.54041.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ATI-drivers versioning system - I'm confused by Helmut Jarausch
1 On Donnerstag 25 März 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > would anybody please to kind to explain the x11-drivers/ati-driver
5 > versioning system to me? I'm waiting for a version that supports
6 > Xorg-7.x .
7 >
8 > From the bug report
9 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290739
10 > it looks like version 8.721 supports Xorg-7.x
11 > and would thus be more recent than say 10.2
12 >
13 > What's the difference between the 8.x and the 10.x
14 > series?
15 >
16 > Many thanks for a hint,
17 > Helmut.
18
19 10 is the year
20 2 is the month the driver is released in
21 8.721 is an internal version.
22
23 8.721 or some later version, 8.722, 7.23, 730.. will probably become 10.4
24
25 The latest officially released version is 10.3.