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List:       gentoo-amd64
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: ati-drivers & 2.6.17?
From:       Antoine Martin <antoine () nagafix ! co ! uk>
Date:       2006-06-23 9:36:22
Message-ID: 1151055382.8487.9.camel () ant ! internal
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On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 09:52 -0400, Norm Heinen wrote:
> xorg modular has been in for several version of ati-drivers.
> You'll need to unmask by keyword the latest drivers in portage. Which
> at this time is 8.25.18
I couldn't get them to work with xorg 7.1 when I tried a few weeks back:
(EE) module ABI major version (0) doesn't match the server's version (1)
(couldn't get to build for 7.1 - seems hardcoded to 7.0)

but it works with xorg 7.0 and you do get 3d acceleration up to
2560x1600! (assuming you card and monitor support it).
IIRC 6.8 also worked. 6.9 didn't (no GL - not sure why)
AFAIK, the only problem with this driver is the lack of XVideo support.

> I know they work on 2.6.16, however I can't confirm they work on
> 2.6.17. But I see no reason why they shouldn't.
They do.

> 
> emerge -av ati-drivers
> 
> 
> On 6/21/06, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
> > "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> posted
> > 5bdc1c8b0606201712s6fab2583m9c385f013d351ea9@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
> > below, on  Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:12:54 -0700:
> >
> > >    Just wondering if there is a known good ati-drivers package in
> > > portage for linux-2.6.17, either in the kernel.org or gentoo versions.
> >
> > No problem with x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati (6.6.1) here.  Kernel 2.6.17
> > (kernel.org vanilla), xorg-7.1, compiled with gcc 4.1.1.
> >
> > Of course, I don't use slaveryware, so don't use the slaveryware ati
> > drivers.  I haven't read of any kernel issues with them, but last I read,
> > they didn't have a version for xorg-modular, either 7.0 or 7.1, yet.
> > That is of course one of the problems with using slaveryware, users are
> > dependent on the whims of their software master for updates, which often
> > lag the freedomware versions, if the master deigns to release updates at
> > all. The Nvidia slaves' master is likewise lagging.
> >
> > --
> > Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
> > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
> > and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman
> >
> > --
> > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
> >
> >

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