From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HIb7R-0006RU-4p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:45:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1I1iOQq026825; Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:44:24 GMT Received: from imf25aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf25aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.73]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1I1eE9Y022366 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:40:15 GMT Received: from ibm69aec.bellsouth.net ([68.158.192.144]) by imf25aec.mail.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20070218014013.NJLN19640.imf25aec.mail.bellsouth.net@ibm69aec.bellsouth.net> for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:40:13 -0500 Received: from dcorbin.machturtle.com ([68.158.192.144]) by ibm69aec.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20070218014012.EYMX1544.ibm69aec.bellsouth.net@dcorbin.machturtle.com> for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:40:12 -0500 Received: from [192.168.37.1] (helo=[192.168.26.118]) by dcorbin.machturtle.com with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HIb3r-0001R1-VT for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:41:55 -0500 From: David Corbin To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem emerging ATI drivers Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:38:59 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200702170544.05864.gentoo.org@machturtle.com> In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702172039.00302.gentoo.org@machturtle.com> X-Archives-Salt: 9c4548db-04ef-4679-b2b5-94149c019431 X-Archives-Hash: 8ff8edfb0d90c8d11eb93c2ef113009f On Saturday 17 February 2007 10:14, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-02-17, David Corbin 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 > > -- > Grant Edwards grante Yow! I brought my > BOWLING at BALL -- and some DRUGS!! visi.com -- David Corbin Games, Gamers, Gaming - a blog - http://g3.machturtle.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list