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On 25 March 2010 11:50, Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> On 25 Mar, ich bins wrote: |
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>> Am 25.03.2010 10:45, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: |
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>>> Hi, |
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>>> |
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>>> would anybody please to kind to explain the x11-drivers/ati-driver |
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>>> versioning system to me? I'm waiting for a version that supports |
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>>> Xorg-7.x . |
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>>> |
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>>> >From the bug report |
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>>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290739 |
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>>> it looks like version 8.721 supports Xorg-7.x |
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>>> and would thus be more recent than say 10.2 |
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>>> |
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>>> What's the difference between the 8.x and the 10.x |
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>>> series? |
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>>> |
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>>> Many thanks for a hint, |
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>>> Helmut. |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>> |
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>> 8.721 represents the ubuntu prebeta 10.4 ati-driver. |
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>> xorg 7.X support will be in ati-driver-10.4 (or the beta 8.721) |
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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. 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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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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Regards, |
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Mick |
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