Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-05 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sat, July 4, 2009 22:54, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 04:22:59AM +0200, Penguin Lover Jes?s Guerrero > squawked: > >> >> On Sat, July 4, 2009 03:58, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >>> On Samstag 04 Juli 2009, Jes?s Guerrero wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> I don't filter anything. Just de

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 04:22:59AM +0200, Penguin Lover Jes?s Guerrero squawked: > > On Sat, July 4, 2009 03:58, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 04 Juli 2009, Jes?s Guerrero wrote: > > > > > > I don't filter anything. Just default metalog with default settings. > > I use sysklogd, that

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 04 Juli 2009, Jesús Guerrero wrote: > On Sat, July 4, 2009 03:58, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 04 Juli 2009, Jesús Guerrero wrote: > > > > > > I don't filter anything. Just default metalog with default settings. > > I use sysklogd, that shouldn't matter much though. The con

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-03 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sat, July 4, 2009 03:58, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag 04 Juli 2009, Jesús Guerrero wrote: > > > I don't filter anything. Just default metalog with default settings. I use sysklogd, that shouldn't matter much though. The config is pretty standard, and certainly there's nothing relat

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 04 Juli 2009, Jesús Guerrero wrote: > > > And please - the open ones aren't that bad. When did > > you try them the last time? > > Some days ago. During months for now. me too - with 2.6.30 and everything. 2d was very good, better than vesa. 3d does not work - of course. The only reas

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-03 Thread Hazen Valliant-Saunders
Gentelmen, there's no need for a flame war; for some it's stable for others it's not, hence the reason it's still in development. Regards, Hazen. 2009/7/3 Jesús Guerrero > > On Sat, July 4, 2009 03:17, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Freitag 03 Juli 2009, Jesús Guerrero wrote: > > > >> If

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-03 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sat, July 4, 2009 03:17, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 03 Juli 2009, Jesús Guerrero wrote: > >> If I have to choose between one closed driver that works perfectly and >> one close driver that works bad+2 open ones that simply don't work, I >> choose the closed driver that works. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 03 Juli 2009, Jesús Guerrero wrote: > On Fri, July 3, 2009 20:30, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Well, AMD uses a fixed cycle - one release a month. They also have a > > fixed development cycle that takes roughly 3 month (all explained on > > phoronix a long time ago). So supporting the

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-03 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Fri, July 3, 2009 21:56, Sebastian Beßler wrote: > Jesús Guerrero schrieb: > > >> I really advice to stay in .28 if you are going to use fglrx. >> > > That is exactly what the ebuild says after building with a kernel >2.6.28 > > > "Kernels newer then 2.6.28 are heavily patched and might result

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-03 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Fri, July 3, 2009 20:30, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Well, AMD uses a fixed cycle - one release a month. They also have a > fixed development cycle that takes roughly 3 month (all explained on > phoronix a long time ago). So supporting the latest kernels is not easy or > even possible. Very

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Well, AMD uses a fixed cycle - one release a month. They also have a fixed development cycle that takes roughly 3 month (all explained on phoronix a long time ago). So supporting the latest kernels is not easy or even possible. They also only support a few distros. If you insist on using a non-s

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-03 Thread Hazen Valliant-Saunders
I was reffering to the fact that ATI has a history of support issues within Linux. As for "Understanding" all I know is emerge ati-drivers where my keywords file contains all the nifty means to unmask the packages & dependencies I need still results in an unusable X. (which is why it's been revere

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 03 Juli 2009, Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: > > No really the ATI installer does not work!? Go figure. > you really do not understand. It is not a matter of 'does it work' or not. The installer dumps a couple of files into the system - and on a gentoo system in all the wrong places

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-03 Thread Hazen Valliant-Saunders
No really the ATI installer does not work!? Go figure. It's a clean & fresh install (habbit of mine) I had to unmask a few packages but there were no kernel patches so.. Due to the miserable failure I'll wait some more. On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann < volkerar...@googlem

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 03 Juli 2009, Adam Carter wrote: > > So any news on the ATI Front or will I have to rool my own and submit it? > > Add "x11-drivers/ati-drivers ~x86" (or ~amd64) to > /etc/portage/package.keywords and you will be able to install 9.6. > > It now appears to be asking for xorg-server-1.5.3-

RE: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-02 Thread Adam Carter
> So any news on the ATI Front or will I have to rool my own and submit it? Add "x11-drivers/ati-drivers ~x86" (or ~amd64) to /etc/portage/package.keywords and you will be able to install 9.6. It now appears to be asking for xorg-server-1.5.3-r7 (but i'm running it fine with xorg-server-1.5.3-r

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-02 Thread Matthias Krebs
Am Donnerstag 02 Juli 2009 20:52:38 schrieb Hazen Valliant-Saunders: > So any news on the ATI Front or will I have to rool my own and submit it? well, it is in the tree this is from the Changelog: *ati-drivers-9.6 (25 Jun 2009) 25 Jun 2009; Tomáš Chvátal +files/kernel/2.6.29.patch, +files/

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: > So any news on the ATI Front or will I have to rool my own and submit it? There is an ebuild for them in the sabayon overlay

[gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-02 Thread Hazen Valliant-Saunders
So any news on the ATI Front or will I have to rool my own and submit it? -- Hazen Valliant-Saunders IT/IS Consultant (613) 355-5977