From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.105.134.102] (helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnHIW-0003Yh-Dw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:42:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j5SEfdQP007593; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:41:39 GMT Received: from mail.rtvision.com (rtvision.dsl.visi.com [208.42.18.50]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5SEdgE2011249 for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:39:42 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (rtchris [192.168.1.5]) by mail.rtvision.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3AFF97B8A for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:43:57 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <42C161C2.1070204@cdf123.net> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:42:10 -0500 From: Chris Frederick User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Drivers References: <42BDDC1D.4020601@cdf123.net> <42BDF123.3050404@gentoo.org> <42C012EA.1040805@cdf123.net> <42C06EAB.2000507@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <42C06EAB.2000507@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: da05aa22-4d23-4f62-92c4-7292667d2a0b X-Archives-Hash: 927983cbb1244c948e9b9df140553c0f Luca Barbato wrote: > Chris Frederick wrote: > > >>I'd be happy to help test. Is there any testing methodology that I >>should follow? Or any specific application I should test, or xorg >>config settings I should try? > > > Just unmask and emerge the .13.4 driver as usual and use it as a > standard ati-driver. If it works as should that means that I repackaged > it correctly and requires no other patching... > > lu > Everything works. The only problem is that it appears to be painfully slow. I have 4M generic video cards from the mid 90's that are giving faster framerates, and this thing is in an amd64 3K. I'm going to check the bios tonight, the board is using shared memory, and I might have set it really low since it wasn't working before. Other than that it's working well. Thanks Chris Frederick -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list