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 1N38jI-0000Ku-Bh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:38:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC88DE084B; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:38:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.153]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1115E084B for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:38:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so1681280fgg.10 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:38:22 -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=EnDZksNwlIc7mmBqgKoyhKXpu00XYFeAm4duwBOpx98=; b=ddkwwYPg80ScjoGz3/5PUoDnJlFmN7cmVMp69a0NP6WjcUHvWRsAORZNFTxfb5TM0j OnV5dm3hzl+c6DzLsKilBtZD9HTY1mC71U1QrHBCCA+RdmRnHshHyD8l8HpBQuHR77G7 VJkOm71pLayfyiXH6iSNkgjPQeW+yBkskGDJY= 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=oGaIa5t/ZAVaOgLfKQfI9Yyy6FasjMzZx1WAS+K7unnDRmhu6dGiUWe9Sj2yOE5/bM N/eBtIZ+vXPxonU3/fD+X4p4gYcRv5+MsZlXnfTn1Q6uWLIRpZ5YJaLrPTGJYtsbK5su MwHTsqfNRPGCGOv07HoA8EbjzUoKNOvfmFN/o= Received: by 10.87.40.40 with SMTP id s40mr219525fgj.74.1256737102088; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:38:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d4sm2375778fga.11.2009.10.28.06.38.20 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:38:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-9.10 don't cooperate with xorg-server-7.1.0 Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:38:19 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31.3r4; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <2fede6d564b657431c2bc3e2d17ec195@localhost> 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: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200910281438.19252.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 504d1e36-d6c0-4fe6-b0ae-95d71cdf40a9 X-Archives-Hash: aedcfe8c68d10d5e9d702a2ff8a0094a On Mittwoch 28 Oktober 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 28 Oct, Jes=FAs Guerrero wrote: > > There's a thread in the forum as well. Searching for fglrx it's the fir= st > > one right now, though it's titled towards nvidia. But just look inside. > > there are instructions on how to revert back. However, the following ru= le > > 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 t= he > > 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. >=20 > The 9.10 release of ati-drivers is quite recent and appered after > xorg-server-1.7.0 so I had some hope. >=20 > Helmut. >=20 there is a three month dev cycle and they only work with released software.= So=20 January is a fair guess. Maybe February. Unluckily Ubuntu is not using this= X=20 version or they would have been a bit quicker ;)