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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:36:26
Message-Id: 200907030936.16465.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support? by Adam Carter
1 On Freitag 03 Juli 2009, Adam Carter wrote:
2 > > So any news on the ATI Front or will I have to rool my own and submit it?
3 >
4 > Add "x11-drivers/ati-drivers ~x86" (or ~amd64) to
5 > /etc/portage/package.keywords and you will be able to install 9.6.
6 >
7 > It now appears to be asking for xorg-server-1.5.3-r7 (but i'm running it
8 > fine with xorg-server-1.5.3-r6, which is currently the "stable" package for
9 > ~amd64. Not sure why that wasnt picked up when i installed 9.6). FWIW i'm
10 > still on 2.6.28.
11 >
12 > I was doing the dodgy with 9.5 and 9.6 (before the ebuild was out) and just
13 > running the ati installer. It worked.
14 >
15 > Rgs,
16 > Adam.
17
18 and I hope you deinstalled the crap with the installer before you installed
19 the ebuild or you have a lot of crap in your system that will cause problems
20 later on.

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