Re: [gentoo-amd64] More ATi driver madness

["Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org>]

On Tuesday 15 August 2006 14:33, Roman Zilka wrote:

>
> I use ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1. It's the lastest masked version - maybe only
> such recent aticonfig knows the option.
> Anyway, the appropriate xorg.conf line is:
>
> Option	"MaxGARTSize"	"128"
>
> (in the "Device" section).
>
> That reminds me - I use stable gentoo-sources and when trying to
> emerge the latest stable ati-drivers, the fglrx.ko
> module doesn't get correctly compiled.
> I.e. the emerge process won't fail and stop to emphasize a fatal error.
> Check if you can 'modprobe fglrx'. I only succeed with the latest masked
> ati-drivers.
>
> -Roman

I tried the config option, it didn't work.  I'm really frustrated at the 
moment, so I think I'll leave it alone for a while.  What I don't get is why 
the same set of configuration options works just fine in Kubuntu and not in 
Gentoo.  Go figure.


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Mark Haney
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ERC Broadband
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