On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:40:02PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 05/19/2011 11:20:05 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: > > Am 19.05.2011 22:32, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > > > Hi, > > > > > > no current ati-driver can get along with the recent 2.6.39 kernel > > > see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368081 > > > > > > Does anybody know a work around? > > > > Hi, > > > > there are always the open drivers > > x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati > > and > > x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd > > > > If that is not a choice for you then you have to wait for an > > (in-)offical patch or a version that works with .39 > > > > Do you really need .39 now? Living on the bleeding edge comes with > > problems of its own. > > > > No, I don't NEED the 2.6.39, but I'll want to aid in testing and this > version promises far better performance - on the file system as well as > for concurrent processes since the big kernel lock has gone. > > The patches which have been posted recently, see > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368081 > > seem to work (I'm just writing on a machine running 2.6.39 with 4 cores > and the patched ati-driver) >
Thanks for that info, Helmut. Later today I'm going to give 2.6.39 a shot then (I'd masked it because of my ATI card). -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫
