On Saturday 17 February 2007 10:14, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-02-17, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm getting the following output while emerging > > x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.32.5. > > > > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.19' > > 8.32.5 won't compile as-is with recent kernels. There is a > patch available to get it to compile, or you can use a newer > ATI-drivers package. But newer ATI-drivers packages don't > support some older boards (92xx). A patch for 8.32.5 has been > submitted on bugs.gentoo.rog, but the response was "screw you, > go buy a newer video card". >
How old are those cards? A truly lousy answer if someone has such a chip in a laptop. > So, I created an overlay and modified the ebuild to get it to > work. If you want a copy, it's available at: > The contents of that file are for 8.28.8. Either this is a problem, or I'm not doing the overlay thing correctly (which I *think* I am.). > ftp://ftp.visi.com/users/grante/ati-drivers-8.32.5-r1-overlay.tar.gz > > -- > Grant Edwards grante Yow! I brought my > BOWLING at BALL -- and some DRUGS!! visi.com -- David Corbin Games, Gamers, Gaming - a blog - http://g3.machturtle.com -- [email protected] mailing list
