[gentoo-user] keeping ati-drivers 8.34.8 in portage

[gentoo-user] keeping ati-drivers 8.34.8 in portage

[Iain Buchanan]

Hi,

Due to the recent X updates, portage wants to upgrade ati-drivers.  I am
having problems with all ati-drivers newer than 8.34.8 [1], so what is
the official way to make sure 8.34.8 stays there until a newer version
is released that fixes these problems?  Is just filing a bug against a
specific version enough?

(I already know how to mask the newer xorg versions, no probs)

The bug I did file [2] was marked resolved, upstream, but I only
mentioned the latest release of ati-drivers, not all of them.  I've also
found out a bit more since then.  So what's the official way to keep an
ebuild around?  I noticed there are quite a few versions
in /usr/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers, but maybe not for long?!

thanks,

[1] see previous post "Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fglrx and posix shared mem"
[2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185825
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Re: [gentoo-user] keeping ati-drivers 8.34.8 in portage

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 11 September 2007, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Due to the recent X updates, portage wants to upgrade ati-drivers.  I
> am having problems with all ati-drivers newer than 8.34.8 [1], so
> what is the official way to make sure 8.34.8 stays there until a
> newer version is released that fixes these problems?  Is just filing
> a bug against a specific version enough?

I think filing a bug isn;t enough as a dev can easily remove the ebuild 
you need from the tree anyway. You should copy the 8.34.8 ebuild to a 
personal overlay, and mask >8.34.8 as an interim measure

alan

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[gentoo-user] Re: keeping ati-drivers 8.34.8 in portage

[James]

Iain Buchanan <iain <at> pcorp.com.au> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Due to the recent X updates, portage wants to upgrade ati-drivers.  I am
> having problems with all ati-drivers newer than 8.34.8 


Hello Iain,

Like you, I have had some issues with ati-drivers, particularly with newer
[580} chipsets. I went to an ATI site and poke around reading for a while.

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.


hth,

James



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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: keeping ati-drivers 8.34.8 in portage

[Iain Buchanan]

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...
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