[gentoo-user] ati-drivers 8.452.1

[Iain Buchanan]

or 8-01 as the package is called... Has anyone tried them yet?

With a bit of tweaking the previous ebuild, I managed to install them.
So far they're no worse than 8.40.4 (8.443.1 is unusable for me because
I have a 1680x1050 resolution which the driver doesn't support!), but
they're not as good as the glory days of 8.3?.? where I had much greater
fps and GL screensavers actually worked.

Anyway, I'm seeing this when I run glxgears:
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".

And this when I run fgl_glxgears:
Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  161 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
  Serial number of failed request:  30
  Current serial number in output stream:  30

There are a few X errors too:

$  grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log 
Current Operating System: Linux orpheus 2.6.22-suspend2-r1 #2 SMP PREEMPT Fri Aug 24 10:17:53 CST 2007 i686
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(EE) fglrx(0): [pcie] Failed to gather memory of size 262144Kb for PCIe. Error (-1007)
(EE) fglrx(0): atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized. 
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mouse3
(EE) USBmouse2: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "USBmouse2"
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mouse4
(EE) USBmouse3: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "USBmouse3"
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mouse5
(EE) USBmouse4: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "USBmouse4"
(EE) Microsoft Natural? Ergonomic Keyboard 4000: AbsoluteTouch: 'DIGI_Touch' does not exist.
(EE) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Unable to parse 'RelAxis 0' as a map specifier.
(EE) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Unable to parse 'RelAxis 1' as a map specifier.
(EE) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Button: 74.
(EE) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: state->btn: 0x853d128.
(EE) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Unable to parse 'null' as a map specifier string.
(EE) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Unable to parse 'null' as a map specifier string.

so I'm having a few issues.  Of course, 3D performance is horrible.
I've tried searching various forums, but I can't find anything that
fixes the dri error.  I've checked xorg.conf has "Load dri" and
Section "DRI"
	Group        "video"
	Mode         0666
EndSection

and also `eselect opengl set ati` has been done.

any help would greatly appreciated! thanks!
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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        -- (Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters)

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