From: Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ati-driver update
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:24:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610171424.03934.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a9fb46230610170447y3355608eofc18751454eddd4f@mail.gmail.com>
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 13:47, oskar kapala wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have hp zv6000 (amd64) with ati radeon x200. I'm using:
> x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.24.8
> or
> x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.5.8.0
> Both work more less ok, but work.
>
> I had >=x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.25.18 in my
> /etc/portage/package.mask because drivers later than 8.24.8 doesn't
> support my card (it's checked by many till 8.27.10-r1)
>
> When I've tried to emerge world it failed, because xorg-server and
> xf86-video-ati require to upgrade this driver.
>
> The problem is that if I upgrade my system including ati-drivers and
> they won't work I won't be able to return to the old good one -
> 8.24.8. It's no longer in portage.
Oskar,
You don't say which version of xorg you have and want to upgrade to, so
I've going to have to take a guess and assume it's the latest stable,
and that your $ARCH is amd64.
x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.1-r1 is hardcode to require
>= x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.6.0
>=x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.27.10
Not much you can do about that. You either have to find a version of the
driver that does work and merge that, or start experimenting:
Create a local overlay in /usr/local/portage - there's info on how to do
this in the gentoo docs. Copy a modified xorg-xserver ebuild over to
the overlay and edit the driver requirements. Build, see if it works.
If so, leave it and use the overlay instead of the main portage tree.
You can also find the older ebuilds on the net that worked for you and
put them in the overlay as well. Someone mentioned a site here that
does just that yesterday. Then at least you can revert to a known good
version that portage won't nuke with every sync :-)
alan
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-17 11:47 [gentoo-user] ati-driver update oskar kapala
2006-10-17 12:24 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2006-10-17 19:56 ` Richard Fish
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