Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-14 Thread Miguel Ramos
2008/12/14 James : > should have said "profiler" > Breaking down algorithms and make a fundamentally better > algo for a gpu, will require a really good "profiler" to > imho. So far I'd be happy at being able to run something and leave the evaluation of gains at a theoretical level. >> Anyway, it

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-13 Thread James
Miguel Ramos <2008 miguel.ramos.name> writes: > > http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15886 > > I sure hope we get at least a function level profile > > that works with gcc with Catalyst 8.12. should have said "profiler" Breaking down algorithms and make a fundamentally better algo for a gpu,

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 12 December 2008 01:24:27 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] Then did the above command. All it did was creating a file autounmask-xorg-server with this inside: # --- # BEGIN: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3 # --- =x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3 ~amd64 # --- # END

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 12 December 2008 01:24:27 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:16:59 +, Miguel Ramos wrote: > >> I did put the lengthly list of files in package.keywords with ~amd64, > >> but I'm not sure this is the beast approach in the long run. > > > > Make /

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:16:59 +, Miguel Ramos wrote: I did put the lengthly list of files in package.keywords with ~amd64, but I'm not sure this is the beast approach in the long run. Make /etc/portage/package.keywords a directory, then run autounmask x11-base/xorg-se

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Miguel Ramos
2008/12/11 Nikos Chantziaras : > Same here, plus that switching to VTs and back to X a couple of times hangs > the machine. That's has always the case with fglrx, with any version ever > produced, on any distro you can imagine. Oh, I can't believe! I'm almost sure at some point this afternoon I g

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Miguel Ramos wrote: 2008/12/11 Volker Armin Hemmann : But the result isn't very good. I have the following behaviour consistently: boot system, X starts fine, I close X on purpose, second time X doesn't start, receives signal 11, third time on starting X my system hangs badly and I have to press

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Miguel Ramos
2008/12/11 James : > Did you see this? > > http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15886 > > I sure hope we get at least a function level profile > that works with gcc with Catalyst 8.12. > > > I await your respone. I took a look at your link but I can't see what I was expected to see. Anyway, it see

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread James
Miguel Ramos <2008 miguel.ramos.name> writes: > Thanks for the info. > It really looks like the 8.12 is more recent than the 8.54.3 after all... > I'm going to try to install this one and I'll get back to you. > As to GPU programming, I'm certainly there too! > However, there is another obstacle

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Miguel Ramos
2008/12/11 James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "ATI Stream Computing Support" > > It seems that with ATI Catalyst 8.12, we commoners can > finally access and program so that the GPU is another > available processor for us to access and use. > > > Anyone with information, particularly relate to 'howto' >

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread James
Miguel Ramos <2008 miguel.ramos.name> writes: > I'm new to these lists. > I have just come up with an ebuild for the most recent ATI driver for > FirePro/FireGL chips. > Previous ebuilds didn't work due to problems compiling fgl_glxgears; > so this one is better because it solves these issues an