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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-9.10 don't cooperate with xorg-server-7.1.0
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:51:45
Message-Id: tkrat.171df3420f35984b@igpm.rwth-aachen.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-9.10 don't cooperate with xorg-server-7.1.0 by "Jesús Guerrero"
1 On 28 Oct, Jesús Guerrero wrote:
2 > There's a thread in the forum as well. Searching for fglrx it's the first
3 > one right now, though it's titled towards nvidia. But just look inside.
4 > there are instructions on how to revert back. However, the following rule
5 > always holds true if you are using fglrx (and to some extent, the nvidia
6 > driver): before updating your system, check if there's any important update
7 > for X, and if so, please, always triple check in the forum and the web that
8 > the new X release is supported by your drivers.
9 >
10 > At least for fglrx, this is almost never true so the regular procedure is
11 > to mask the packages that are about to be updated, and check again when a
12 > new ati-drivers revision is in place.
13
14 The 9.10 release of ati-drivers is quite recent and appered after
15 xorg-server-1.7.0 so I had some hope.
16
17 Helmut.
18
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20 Helmut Jarausch
21
22 Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
23 RWTH - Aachen University
24 D 52056 Aachen, Germany

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Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-9.10 don't cooperate with xorg-server-7.1.0 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>