From: David Corbin <gentoo.org@machturtle.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem emerging ATI drivers
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:38:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702172039.00302.gentoo.org@machturtle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <er763r$7k7$1@sea.gmane.org>
On Saturday 17 February 2007 10:14, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2007-02-17, David Corbin <gentoo.org@machturtle.com> wrote:
> > I'm getting the following output while emerging
> > x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.32.5.
> >
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.19'
>
> 8.32.5 won't compile as-is with recent kernels. There is a
> patch available to get it to compile, or you can use a newer
> ATI-drivers package. But newer ATI-drivers packages don't
> support some older boards (92xx). A patch for 8.32.5 has been
> submitted on bugs.gentoo.rog, but the response was "screw you,
> go buy a newer video card".
>
How old are those cards? A truly lousy answer if someone has such a chip in a
laptop.
> So, I created an overlay and modified the ebuild to get it to
> work. If you want a copy, it's available at:
>
The contents of that file are for 8.28.8. Either this is a problem, or I'm
not doing the overlay thing correctly (which I *think* I am.).
> ftp://ftp.visi.com/users/grante/ati-drivers-8.32.5-r1-overlay.tar.gz
>
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