Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ati-driver for xorg-1.8.0 ?
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:45:12
Message-Id: 201004132344.35270.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ati-driver for xorg-1.8.0 ? by Rudmer van Dijk
1 On Dienstag 13 April 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 13 April 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > On Dienstag 13 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
4 > > > Hi,
5 > > >
6 > > > while ati-drivers-8.721 is working just fine with xorg-server-1.7.6
7 > > > it is blocked by the recent xorg-server-1.8.0 .
8 > > > Is there a more recent version of the ati-drivers, already?
9 > >
10 > > no
11 >
12 > well you could use the git (-9999) version works perfectly here.
13 > you need to unmask it in /etc/portage/package.unmask
14 >
15 >
16 > Rudmer
17
18 there is no git version for ati drivers
19
20 and there is currently no ati driver supporting 1.8.
21
22 Luckily nothing is lost - 1.8 is in a bad state - even most of Xorg's own
23 drivers don't support it yet.