Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-9.10 don't cooperate with xorg-server-7.1.0

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

On Mittwoch 28 Oktober 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 28 Oct, Jesús Guerrero wrote:
> > There's a thread in the forum as well. Searching for fglrx it's the first
> > one right now, though it's titled towards nvidia. But just look inside.
> > there are instructions on how to revert back. However, the following rule
> > always holds true if you are using fglrx (and to some extent, the nvidia
> > driver): before updating your system, check if there's any important
> > update for X, and if so, please, always triple check in the forum and the
> > web that the new X release is supported by your drivers.
> >
> > At least for fglrx, this is almost never true so the regular procedure is
> > to mask the packages that are about to be updated, and check again when a
> > new ati-drivers revision is in place.
> 
> The 9.10 release of ati-drivers is quite recent and appered after
> xorg-server-1.7.0 so I had some hope.
> 
> Helmut.
> 

there is a three month dev cycle and they only work with released software. So 
January is a fair guess. Maybe February. Unluckily Ubuntu is not using this X 
version or they would have been a bit quicker ;)