On 2006-12-27, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2006-12-27, Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Grant Edwards HA||UCA:
>>> Is there an ati-drivers ebuild that will install a Radeon
>>> 9200/9250 compatible driver under 2.6.18? The most recent ATI
>>> driver that works with the 9200 series is 8.28.8, but it (and
>>> older versions) won't compile "out-of-the-box" under 2.6.18.
>
>> Read the official gentoo-doc about ATI drivers.
>
> I did.
>
>> Could use the Xorg free ATI-drivers.
>
> I used those for a while, but the results were rather poor.
> Performance wasn't very good and there were a lot of rendering
> glitches. More recently any attempt to do openGL just caused
> the X server to segfault, so I had to shut of DRI completely.
> After that I gave op on the Xorg ATI-driver and switched to the
> ati-drivers package.
>
> But, then when I finally decided to upgrade my kernel, the
> "stable" ati-drivers ebuild stopped working. The "testing"
> ebuild works, but support for the 9200 series has been removed
> from recent drivers by ATI.
>
> The patche required to make 8.28.8 build under 2.6.18 are
> trivial (4-5 lines changed). I ought to read up on ebuilds and
> submit a patch.
I'm currently testing an 8.28.8-r1 ebuild. Once I'm confident
I haven't broken anything, I'll post it.
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