On 25 March 2010 11:50, Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > On 25 Mar, ich bins wrote: >> Am 25.03.2010 10:45, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: >>> Hi, >>> >>> would anybody please to kind to explain the x11-drivers/ati-driver >>> versioning system to me? I'm waiting for a version that supports >>> Xorg-7.x . >>> >>> >From the bug report >>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290739 >>> it looks like version 8.721 supports Xorg-7.x >>> and would thus be more recent than say 10.2 >>> >>> What's the difference between the 8.x and the 10.x >>> series? >>> >>> Many thanks for a hint, >>> Helmut. >>> >>> >> >> 8.721 represents the ubuntu prebeta 10.4 ati-driver. >> >> xorg 7.X support will be in ati-driver-10.4 (or the beta 8.721) >> > > Many thanks, do you have an estimate when 10.4 appears in the tree? > Helmut.
I can't answer that (as far as I know the devs will only say that it will appear when it is ready) but I got myself into a pickle with trying to switch from radeon to fglrx driver, running xorg-server 1.7.6. It kept going around in circles with blockers and after subsequent masking and unmasking I couldn't get it to emerge, so I went back to the radeon driver. Mind you I did not rebuilt the kernel at the time and that may be why I was getting 'you can't have these packages installed at the same time' type of message. I only wanted to try fglrx, because someone on the Ubuntu forums said that it stopped their laptop fan from running all the time (mine starts when the temperature reaches 50C or so and thereafter runs continuously). -- Regards, Mick
