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I was reffering to the fact that ATI has a history of support issues within |
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Linux. |
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As for "Understanding" all I know is emerge ati-drivers where my keywords |
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file contains all the nifty means to unmask the packages & dependencies I |
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need still results in an unusable X. (which is why it's been revered back to |
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it's previous configuration). |
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ATI still does not support Linux properly; My pal and his Nvida card works |
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with 2.6.29, it just means that if I want 3D on linux I'm better off with a |
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diffrent vendor and a card that works vs a cheap vendor and a card that I |
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have to fight with. |
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My point is this; ATI/AMD made a commitment to make Linux work but they are |
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behind the ball when it comes to driver updates and releases; If the kernel |
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get's a revision it should take two weeks to see the driver no longer and no |
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less; as a consumer It's not my job to "understand" or "care" about the |
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details, that price that i bought that card for included the engineering |
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required to "make it work", that's why these cards cost so much money; the |
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hardware itself is cheap the engineering is expensive. Also as a consumer |
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it's my job to use whichever OS I want. Hell they closed my ticket without |
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resolving my issue. |
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As for Gentoo, well I'll take my successes and failures where I may as I |
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understand that it's a community of "Voulenteers" that work diligently to |
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support a whole bunch of people that tend to complain loudly and act as |
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though they know everything about everything. |
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Realistically I'll just wait another two months and then mabye it will work, |
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mabye it won't, in the meantime i'll leave the bleeding edge to those |
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massochistic enough to enjoy it. Perhaps the Kernel Crew could hold off on |
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releases until driver support is adaquate? The real issue there is where is |
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the balance do you end up like Debain and only release every so many years? |
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In the meantime I'll test it every once in a while and when it fails I'll |
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state that it fails, when it works I'll quitely use it. |
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As for using ATI/AMD's installer it has never worked at all; (for me anyhow) |
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and I remember when I tried to get my 9800 working under Slackware and |
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Redhat I had simlar stale file issues, then again that was a few years ago |
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now, and every so often I try to get my card working in Gentoo and every so |
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often it fails. What this has to do with Stale files and packages and |
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placement of bad Xorg conf files means nothing to me. I just want my card |
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and it's nifty 3D accelleration to be used by Folding at home, I can use it |
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in windows if I ran it, I can't use it in Gentoo at the momennt, and that's |
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the point. |
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"Silence is golden". |
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Regards, |
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Hazen. |
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On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann < |
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volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Freitag 03 Juli 2009, Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: |
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> > <sarchasam> |
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> > No really the ATI installer does not work!? Go figure. |
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> > </sarchasam> |
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> you really do not understand. It is not a matter of 'does it work' or not. |
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> The |
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> installer dumps a couple of files into the system - and on a gentoo system |
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> in |
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> all the wrong places. This will result in trouble later. From not compiling |
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> packages to not working 3d acceleration because of some stale file |
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> somewhere |
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> hidden in the system . |
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Hazen Valliant-Saunders |
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