Re: [gentoo-user] ati-driver for xorg-1.8.0 ?

2010-04-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann 
On Dienstag 13 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
 Hi,
 
 while ati-drivers-8.721 is working just fine with xorg-server-1.7.6
 it is blocked by the recent xorg-server-1.8.0 .
 Is there a more recent version of the ati-drivers, already?

no

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-driver for xorg-1.8.0 ?

2010-04-13 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem 
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 04:13:40PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
 Hi,
 
 while ati-drivers-8.721 is working just fine with xorg-server-1.7.6
 it is blocked by the recent xorg-server-1.8.0 .
 Is there a more recent version of the ati-drivers, already?
 
 Many thank for some info,
 Helmut.
 
 -- 
 Helmut Jarausch
 
 Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
 RWTH - Aachen University
 D 52056 Aachen, Germany
 

There are some in overlays it would seem:

* x11-drivers/ati-drivers
 Available versions:  
(0) [M](~)8.522-r1[2] [M]8.552-r2 [M](~)8.593 [M](~)8.602[3] 
[M](~)8.612[3] [M](~)9.5[3]
(1) [M](~)8.721 9.9-r2 9.10 9.11 (~)10.1 (~)10.2 (~)10.2[4] (~)10.3 
(~)10.4_beta[1]
{acpi debug kernel_linux +modules multilib qt4}
 Homepage:http://www.ati.com
 Description: Ati precompiled drivers for r600 (HD Series) and 
newer chipsets

[1] arcon layman/arcon
[2] lordvan layman/lordvan
[3] pentoo layman/pentoo
[4] sabayon layman/sabayon


-- 
Zeerak Waseem


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Re: [gentoo-user] ati-driver for xorg-1.8.0 ?

2010-04-13 Thread Rudmer van Dijk 
On Tuesday 13 April 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
 On Dienstag 13 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
  Hi,
  
  while ati-drivers-8.721 is working just fine with xorg-server-1.7.6
  it is blocked by the recent xorg-server-1.8.0 .
  Is there a more recent version of the ati-drivers, already?
 
 no

well you could use the git (-) version works perfectly here.
you need to unmask it in /etc/portage/package.unmask


Rudmer

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-driver for xorg-1.8.0 ?

2010-04-13 Thread Rudmer van Dijk 
On Tuesday 13 April 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote:
 On Tuesday 13 April 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
  On Dienstag 13 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
   Hi,
   
   while ati-drivers-8.721 is working just fine with xorg-server-1.7.6
   it is blocked by the recent xorg-server-1.8.0 .
   Is there a more recent version of the ati-drivers, already?
  
  no
 
 well you could use the git (-) version works perfectly here.
 you need to unmask it in /etc/portage/package.unmask
 
and you can find it in the x11 overlay...

Rudmer

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-driver for xorg-1.8.0 ?

2010-04-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann 
On Dienstag 13 April 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote:
 On Tuesday 13 April 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
  On Dienstag 13 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
   Hi,
   
   while ati-drivers-8.721 is working just fine with xorg-server-1.7.6
   it is blocked by the recent xorg-server-1.8.0 .
   Is there a more recent version of the ati-drivers, already?
  
  no
 
 well you could use the git (-) version works perfectly here.
 you need to unmask it in /etc/portage/package.unmask
 
 
   Rudmer

there is no git version for ati drivers

and there is currently no ati driver supporting 1.8.

Luckily nothing is lost - 1.8 is in a bad state - even most of Xorg's own 
drivers don't support it yet.