Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mesa build failure
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:30:49
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0906271530u6bb21be6r494b2c69699598dd@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: mesa build failure by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
2 > On 06/28/2009 12:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
3 >>
4 >> As far as the bug report went it just didn't click for me.
5 >> Disappointing that after something like 10 months no one has fixed the
6 >> ebuild.
7 >
8 > The latter ebuilds are fixed.  They're still ~arch, but I recommend you use
9 > them because the latter driver versions are substantially less buggy than
10 > the arch ones.  If you have a older card (anything less or equal to a Radeon
11 > X1950) use ati-drivers-8.593. If you a Radeon HD2000 and above, use
12 > ati-drivers-9.6.
13 >
14
15 Nikos,
16 Thanks for responding. I apprecaite it.
17
18 ~arch on xf86-video-ati, xorg-server or both? I prefer to stay with
19 non-~arch when possible.
20
21 I've got a 9100 IGP which is listed as R200 technology. I need to use
22 the TV Out S-Video on my machine but cannot find very good
23 instructions on creating the right xorg.conf file.
24
25 Thanks,
26 Mark

Replies

Subject Author
[gentoo-user] Re: mesa build failure Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>