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 1MRFXh-0004CE-VN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:13:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 64462E02CA; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:13:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aplus.dartworks.biz (aplus.dartworks.biz [206.225.82.180]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45F0FE02CA for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:13:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dartworks.biz (173-8-128-221-SFBA.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [::ffff:173.8.128.221]) (AUTH: CRAM-MD5 mercury) by aplus.dartworks.biz with esmtp; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:13:47 -0700 id 0037C00B.4A5E7ECB.00005FB8 Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:13:46 -0700 From: Keith Dart To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Solved.Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem Message-ID: <20090715181346.0fc46060@dartworks.biz> In-Reply-To: <200907160156.57379.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> References: <20090715165041.0983e228@dartworks.biz> <200907160156.57379.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Organization: Dartworks X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6ebc054f-65ce-4794-a656-a3450d326a3a X-Archives-Hash: 1f2dbe0d1f74f411e33f58659a767542 On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:56:57 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > so very wrong. =46rom the AMD driver web site: "32-Bit packages must be installed for 64-Bit Linux drivers to install or work. " The ebuild also pulls in the app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs package.=20 Please explain. > > > > The open-source x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati package works much > > better. If you don't really need the 3D acceleration I'd recommend > > you switch to that. =20 >=20 > except that they don't have working powermanagment, increasing energy=20 > consumption (a lot) and noise (even more). I hadn't noticed that. I did notice a definite speed and stability improvement after switching to the open-source drivers. The ati-drivers also crashed my system occasionally. --=20 -- -------------------- Keith Dart =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D