From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IVFxd-00069k-Gi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:20:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8C0Acwi002834; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:10:38 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out1.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.71]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8C03vWG027658 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:03:58 GMT Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B70846012 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:03:54 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: keeping ati-drivers 8.34.8 in portage From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <1189508451.14984.284.camel@orpheus> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:36:50 +0930 Message-Id: <1189555610.14984.310.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 34a997f4-4ae6-4ca6-b357-792424d44e1d X-Archives-Hash: 33cb27ea18b910709165e9e6bdb960bc On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 14:53 +0000, James wrote: [snip] > I've been using 8.39.4 for quite some time on 2 newer systems and it > is stable(or at least with the 3D game bzflag) and normal workstation usage. > > My experience is trial and error, burning lots of time before you find > an ati-driver that works good with your chipset. I'm not sure the criteria > or who marks ati-drivers as stable, but, ati-drivers-8.39.4 would get > an affirmative from me. thanks. I did try them, in fact I tried each of these versions multiple times one day when trying to find the problem: 8.36.5 8.37.6 8.39.4 8.40.4 and each of them had the fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!! error that I talked about before :( I even posted on the ati forums and no one could help... -- Iain Buchanan Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes. -- The Best of Will Rogers -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list