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 1MDNAW-0002ur-KV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:32:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E579E0492; Sun, 7 Jun 2009 18:32:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E67DE0492 for ; Sun, 7 Jun 2009 18:32:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so3317883ewy.34 for ; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:32:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=TuHOInBlym4MSJcMaSsKEfmeohC7DrXaoVzcWY1vW2k=; b=dqfTTKAoDJfLEzQNxuFmK7Ca11H9eSaE58U+DGBGTh4JOoRXede9xY+Xba362g/rNt /3BoYy/SEG3SSOxk5mHBYrpjhIaImGJM1vWaqoWOCQ5o7lKmnVbQIALD2op0hV2FTvZC zm5RSM8dbbp3hf/4xr3HbgvAzgaCb68bKbxnc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=eVUqw0kfoXTFNCY3oBovm5AYE0pSIuUzRg/Wp0fBAQkHZ7gvmIMuLvphto3eNPiJtx F9S7BBal4F6z4vvbrNhdE+AKGnfIc/SK1AJOiBMNSUYgdK5Esns2fpspeT31vxpimjKq bcHYjMA/5/PgL0UjwCbbf2dnLMkFwC5GCSPRc= Received: by 10.210.39.2 with SMTP id m2mr154906ebm.13.1244399550489; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:32:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 1sm38224866ewy.5.2009.06.07.11.32.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:32:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ati-drivers emerge fails. Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 20:32:28 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.90 (Linux/2.6.29.4r4; KDE/4.2.90; x86_64; ; ) References: <200906071945.24668.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: 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-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200906072032.28451.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 5843e78a-3459-4a9b-b0d2-8a3ace84933e X-Archives-Hash: 6d7151dc8c308867e1a4f07d8c9f1cea On Sonntag 07 Juni 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag 07 Juni 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: > >>> Good Day; > >>> > >>> ati-drivers fails to emerge; foolowed the somewhat out of date doc's > >>> online. > >> > >> There doesn't exist a Catalyst for Linux release yet that support kernel > >> 2.6.29. Even if you install the latest version (9.5), it won't work. > > > > it works with a patch. > > > > everything you need can be found in bugzilla. > > The patch results in the driver issuing a warning about "kernel data > malformed/corrupted" (something like that, but sounds pretty serious) at > a rate of about a dozen per second (check with dmesg). After a few > hours, it locks up. Also, the log files grow out of proportions due to > the warning flood. a) depends on your settings b) the warning seems to harmless because c) I have uptimes of days with that driver without problems.