There's a question on the forums about this, and they explain there how toi install it. It only needs to unmask xorg-x11 6.8.99 and install one package from the new modular ones. Search there for more help.
I'm going to buy myself a Radeon 9600 this weekend mainly because of the free software drivers. hth, --lf On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:58:32PM +0200, Rafael Fernández López wrote: > Well, my opinion was (and is) to wait. You aren't losing anything and > you're winning stability. Sorry, I meant X.org 7 instead of X.org. > Obviously, I knew that X.org is in portage !! ;) > > Bye and thanks !! > > 2005/10/7, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Rafael Fernández López schreef: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've read something somewhere that have amazed me... Is X.org > > > developing new ATI drivers, better far from ATI.com ? > > > > Yes and no... I think what you're talking about is most likely the open > > source r300 drivers (similar in effect to the open source 'radeon' > > kernel drivers that are available for the 9500 and below). > > > > More information can be found on these drivers here: > > > > http://r300.sourceforge.net/R300.php > > > > As far as I know, although the r300 project's code is available to X.org > > (and in fact has been accepted into the CVS tree), the project itself is not > > associated with, or rather is separate from, the X.org project itself. > > > > > > > > If that's affirmative... We will be able to use Damage extension (and > > > Composite extension) with ati rendering ? > > > > No idea, since I don't know what the Damage extension is/does, and afaik > > the Composite extension is not yet complete or stable, so it doesn't > > 'matter' whether it works atm-- ATI themselves don't want to 'waste' > > resources on supporting Composite until it's done, so I can't imagine > > that the Open Source project is going to focus on it yet either (having > > less resources and information than ATI themselves). > > > > > > > > And when is X.org going to be able on portage ? > > > > As noted on the r300 site, 'The latest source code is available directly > > from Xorg, Mesa and DRM CVS trees.' > > > > I would assume that 'the Xorg, Mesa and DRM CVS trees' are the > > development trees for modular X.org (X.org 7, is that?). > > > > Ebuilds for these are available in Portage, they're just hard-masked. > > Myself, I'm not prepared to touch them with a 20-foot/metre pole, but > > perhaps you are. > > > > If not, then it would be better to wait until upstream stabilizes a > > release, and the ebuilds stabilize to at least ~arch. Perhaps the Xorg > > site has a target date for the next release; I haven't looked. I would > > at least imagine that their development mailing list would give a better > > idea as to how close to release they might be. > > > > I'm happy to wait, but that's just my opinion, and it's your choice what > > you decide to do. > > > > HTH, > > Holly > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > > -- > Saludos, > Rafael Fernández López. > > "A la vista de suficientes ojos todos los errores resultan evidentes" > - Linus Torvalds > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
