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 1MRHar-0005AP-HR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:25:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FE46E0522; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:25:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com (mail-bw0-f227.google.com [209.85.218.227]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55E7DE0522 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:25:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz27 with SMTP id 27so1878245bwz.34 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:25:10 -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=Qo+3pfJuJidhSFumTqBFYTMJ6Mjdt7LAMYuSRVRcaHQ=; b=vDqMID0/gQI9ZpQ69e7+FgXINRs/Fe7KFmgACU9cwwLDWoAJpJyzNiltlnJN6FnEgH 4s94ERDwGCuC/QUQ9NLSgRS3mk218sYSw7o4PlSLwKRT8bVGMLGmSdGVzsamSmwiJEtT TaGI5QJsPaqRxUgPo3h9PmSgdtuIS4IssjbFw= 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=WZExJ+wtWRWwnA0v2u6y5maPvHcs0VM4kc14rsFaCjk5Y2kKqdN4gGJwzKKauFLNeB 8LCOgVCZ8+M26yGHVeslnPbPH2V5ZxncElPn5yrPXBb3SRtiCRHIIf+mhExaP+8c6D7M gTsfv9n8PbxkoboOuCV2BYDFHk1KfdXwzpZHY= Received: by 10.204.57.73 with SMTP id b9mr8124347bkh.45.1247714710656; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:25:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 2sm12256096bwz.117.2009.07.15.20.25.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:25:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Solved.Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:25:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.90 (Linux/2.6.30.1r4; KDE/4.3.60; x86_64; ; ) References: <200907160416.02219.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <20090715194711.2044c522@dartworks.biz> In-Reply-To: <20090715194711.2044c522@dartworks.biz> 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: <200907160525.07025.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2b4760fe-165c-48f2-b357-8a0e4622dc4c X-Archives-Hash: b45552af8d9b287c1ddb7245a62f28b8 On Donnerstag 16 Juli 2009, Keith Dart wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:16:02 +0200 > > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > you said 'strictly 32bit' which is absolutely and utterly wrong. > > Sorry, bad wording on my part. I should have said "mixed" since that is > what the web site (and ebuild) implies. My knowledge comes > strictly from the "facts" from the official web site. That's all I have > to go on. Well, there is also my experience with it... > > There is one thing I know for certain: This is the first ATI card I > ever bought or spec-ed, and it will be the last one. sure. Support companies that don't care about open source drivers. And remember: when Nvidia fucks up their drivers (look at nvnews for people out of luck) you are screwed. With AMD the work on the open drivers is nicely going forward - so you will be able to choose. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzM4Mg