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From: Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server and ati-drivers 'bussiness'
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:45:50
Message-Id: 200701290943.29892.alan@linuxholdings.co.za
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server and ati-drivers 'bussiness' by Martins
1 On Saturday 27 January 2007 12:30, Martins wrote:
2 > > I'm having the same problems. ati-drivers insists on using
3 > > X.org-7.1.0.0 or earlier, obviously because the drivers were
4 > > compiled against that version.
5 > >
6 > > I don't have the ati-drivers source code so I can't tell if there
7 > > was an ABI change that the driver enforces, or if ATI simply
8 > > hardcoded the drivers to fail. I'm betting on the latter....
9 > >
10 > > In either case the solution would appear to be a hard dependency on
11 > > <= X.org-7.1.0.0 in the ebuild. Have you submitted a bug to bgo?
12 > >
13 > > alan
14 >
15 > no, i didnt submit bug due to I dont understand what bug it is
16 > related to - xorg or ati-drivers or both ;)
17
18 Here's an update:
19
20 I downloaded and emerged xorg-server-1.2.0, xorg-x11-7.2 and
21 ati-drivers-8.32.5 over the weekend and it all went smoothly. So it
22 would seem that ati-drivers does need a hard dependency on
23 <xorg-x11-7.2. File the bug against ati-drivers asking for a hard dep
24
25 alan
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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server and ati-drivers 'bussiness' Jacques Montier <jacmonti@×××××××××××××.fr>