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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ATI RV710/730
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:03:50
Message-Id: 201006232247.27428.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ATI RV710/730 by Daniel Troeder
1 On Wednesday 23 June 2010 09:08:02 Daniel Troeder wrote:
2 > On 06/07/2010 01:33 AM, James wrote:
3 > > Hello,
4 > >
5 > > I have this ati card. I'm having trouble finding a stable
6 > > ati-driver + xorg-server combination that will compile.
7 > >
8 > >
9 > > Any recommendations as to open source drivers or getting ati-drivers
10 > > happy with 9.x or 10.x is most welcome. I read a lot of bugs but
11 > > not much clear on how to proceed....
12 > >
13 > >
14 > > James
15 >
16 > x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.6
17 > x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.12.6
18 > x11-drivers/ati-drivers-10.6
19 >
20 > both drivers work well. to install both you have to make drm a module
21 > and not load radeon with kms. switching is possible if you shutdown X
22 > but might require a reboot (it doesn't, but you lack hw-accel. if you
23 > don't).
24
25 Hmm interesting! How do the ati drivers perform Vs xorg?
26
27 --
28 Regards,
29 Mick

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