Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Hazen Valliant-Saunders <hazenvs@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:24:30
Message-Id: d07a70780907030624v4975a67as9bed4eed57d69e2c@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support? by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 <sarchasam>
2 No really the ATI installer does not work!? Go figure.
3 </sarchasam>
4
5 It's a clean & fresh install (habbit of mine)
6 I had to unmask a few packages but there were no kernel patches so..
7
8 Due to the miserable failure I'll wait some more.
9
10 On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann <
11 volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
12
13 > On Freitag 03 Juli 2009, Adam Carter wrote:
14 > > > So any news on the ATI Front or will I have to rool my own and submit
15 > it?
16 > >
17 > > Add "x11-drivers/ati-drivers ~x86" (or ~amd64) to
18 > > /etc/portage/package.keywords and you will be able to install 9.6.
19 > >
20 > > It now appears to be asking for xorg-server-1.5.3-r7 (but i'm running it
21 > > fine with xorg-server-1.5.3-r6, which is currently the "stable" package
22 > for
23 > > ~amd64. Not sure why that wasnt picked up when i installed 9.6). FWIW i'm
24 > > still on 2.6.28.
25 > >
26 > > I was doing the dodgy with 9.5 and 9.6 (before the ebuild was out) and
27 > just
28 > > running the ati installer. It worked.
29 > >
30 > > Rgs,
31 > > Adam.
32 >
33 > and I hope you deinstalled the crap with the installer before you installed
34 > the ebuild or you have a lot of crap in your system that will cause
35 > problems
36 > later on.
37 >
38 >
39
40
41 --
42 Hazen Valliant-Saunders
43 IT/IS Consultant
44 (613) 355-5977

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support? Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>