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From: Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati from git?
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 07:09:25
Message-Id: 4D3930BB.60602@asyr.hopto.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati from git? by Mark Knecht
1 on 01/20/2011 06:15 PM Mark Knecht wrote the following:
2 > Hi,
3 > I'm interested in how I would go about getting the xf86-video-ati
4 > package from git? I would like to try the newest driver, if possible,
5 > as it is apparently the reason I don't have 3d rendering enabled on my
6 > HD5750 Evergreen card.
7 >
8 > Is there a good Wiki on how to do this? Also, how does one match a
9 > video driver from git with the right version of xorg-server, etc. I'm
10 > currently using 1.9.2. I see there are ~mad64 versions of 1.9.3 in
11 > portage but I don't know if I need them.
12 >
13 I don't know about git, but I have a Sapphire HD5770 1GB, using
14 x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.9, x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.3.901, with
15 2.6.37-gentoo sources (~amd64 and no-multilib) without problems.

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Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati from git? Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org>