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On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> On 06/24/2009 02:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> Hi all, |
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>> Main question is whether there is any change in the way I select |
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>> the fglrx driver with xorg-server-1.5? |
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>> I have a big emerge running on one of my MythTV frontends that uses |
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>> an old 2.6.19 kernel with an old 8.28 ati-driver package. The machine |
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>> does not use a keyboard or mouse. I cannot update either the kernel or |
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>> the ati-driver for hardware support reasons. When the emerge is |
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>> finished in a couple of hours do I need to change the xorg.conf file |
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>> at all to use the server with the fglrx driver or will it just work? |
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> There's a pretty big chance that 8.28 is so old that it does not support |
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> xorg-server 1.5 at all. That means you can't use xorg-server 1.5. And if |
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> you're not prepared to update your kernel, then the xorg native driver |
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> (xf86-video-ati) is out of the question too. |
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> It looks to me you'll have to keep using the older xorg-server. |
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Thanks Nikos. I hope that's not the case or I've waster a couple of |
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hours because emerge didn't stop me from doing this. No messages at |
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all about anything like too old a kernel or vidieo driver. |
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It's almost done so I guess I'll just wait and then see how it goes. |
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There is no way to update the kernel as far as I know. The ATI chip |
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that's in the computer has an S-video output that I need to drive the |
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TV. After 8.28 ATI stopped supporting S-Video for this chip meaning I |
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cannot update ati-drivers. To use the 8.28 ati-driver package I'm |
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forced to use the 2.6.19 kernel. |
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Believe me, I'd like to update but don't know how to unless I buy a |
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new video card. I haven't looked in the box in a LONG time but I think |
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it's possibly PCI only, and then it's also low form factor so it will |
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probably be pretty hard to find ANY video card to fit it, but maybe |
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I'll look around in case I have to go that way. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |