Re: [gentoo-user] ATI 9.6 on Gentoo 2.6.30

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

On Sonntag 12 Juli 2009, Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote:
> G'day folks;
>
> FYI - previous issues:
> Technical Caveat #1
> fglrx only supports 16 / 24 bit colour depth, therefore within the Xorg
> Config I had to add DefaultDepth 24 the "Screen0" section & subsections.
>
> Technical Caveat#2
> xf86-drivers/mouse and xf86-drivers/kyd needed to be recompiled with the
> emerge of ati-drivers (in fact I had to re-emerge Xorg, Xfce and all XF86
> drivers, there's a note about this in the xorg emerge however as a general
> rule we should consider adding them as a dependancy to prevent this from
> confusing people.)
>
> There's a lot of chatter online about mice and keyboard's not working after
> an Xorg upgrade, this is why.
>
> And as always thanks again everyone; hopefully it won't freeze and I won't
> be bleeding too much.
>
> How long and what's required before we may consider this "Stable"?
>
> Regards,

emm - no. you had to rebuild the mouse/keyboard driver because of the X 
update. Not because of ati-drivers.