[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers ebuild for 9200 and 2.6.18?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-12-27, Rumen Yotov <rumen@××××××.org> wrote:
> Grant Edwards HA||UCA:
>> Is there an ati-drivers ebuild that will install a Radeon
>> 9200/9250 compatible driver under 2.6.18?  The most recent ATI
>> driver that works with the 9200 series is 8.28.8, but it (and
>> older versions) won't compile "out-of-the-box" under 2.6.18.

> Read the official gentoo-doc about ATI drivers.

I did.

> Could use the Xorg free ATI-drivers.

I used those for a while, but the results were rather poor.
Performance wasn't very good and there were a lot of rendering
glitches. More recently any attempt to do openGL just caused
the X server to segfault, so I had to shut of DRI completely.
After that I gave op on the Xorg ATI-driver and switched to the
ati-drivers package.

But, then when I finally decided to upgrade my kernel, the
"stable" ati-drivers ebuild stopped working.  The "testing"
ebuild works, but support for the 9200 series has been removed
from recent drivers by ATI.

The patche required to make 8.28.8 build under 2.6.18 are
trivial (4-5 lines changed). I ought to read up on ebuilds and
submit a patch.

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