From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QNMxQ-0002j1-G5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 May 2011 10:29:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6089A1C013; Fri, 20 May 2011 10:27:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.73]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2557D1C013 for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 10:27:52 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-disposition: inline Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0LLH001A1P2F2EM0@mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 May 2011 12:27:51 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.65,241,1304287200"; d="scan'208";a="113601296" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Fri, 20 May 2011 12:27:51 +0200 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.14.4+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id p4KARpLc016171 for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 12:27:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from numa-i (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB1550 for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 12:27:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 12:27:53 +0200 From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is there an ati-drivers version which can coexist with the 2.6.39 kernel To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <1305837177.12762.0@numa-i> <4DD58985.3010609@darkmetatron.de> In-reply-to: <4DD58985.3010609@darkmetatron.de> X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.9 Message-id: <1305887273.30079.1@numa-i> Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d296c1d5d05c40cd32342c6473becf5f On 05/19/2011 11:20:05 PM, Sebastian Be=DFler wrote: > Am 19.05.2011 22:32, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > > Hi, > >=20 > > no current ati-driver can get along with the recent 2.6.39 kernel > > see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D368081 > >=20 > > Does anybody know a work around? >=20 > Hi, >=20 > there are always the open drivers > x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati > and > x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd >=20 > If that is not a choice for you then you have to wait for an > (in-)offical patch or a version that works with .39 >=20 > Do you really need .39 now? Living on the bleeding edge comes with > problems of its own. >=20 No, I don't NEED the 2.6.39, but I'll want to aid in testing and this=20 version promises far better performance - on the file system as well as=20 for concurrent processes since the big kernel lock has gone. The patches which have been posted recently, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D368081 seem to work (I'm just writing on a machine running 2.6.39 with 4 cores=20 and the patched ati-driver) Helmut. =