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 1Nv9A4-0002am-Bp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:01:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7F1AE0809; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:00:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.askja.de (mail.askja.de [83.137.103.136]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DBA5E0809 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:00:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from static-87-79-89-40.netcologne.de ([87.79.89.40] helo=zone.wonkology.org) by mail.askja.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nv98y-0005ef-7G for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:00:08 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by zone.wonkology.org with local; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:00:05 +0100 id 00011B87.4BACAFD5.00006EF8 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-drivers versioning system - I'm confused Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:00:02 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.1 (Linux/2.6.32-tuxonice-r5; KDE/4.4.1; i686; ; ) References: <358eca8f1003250547kdbe8989wed3749dd2f76c486@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <358eca8f1003250547kdbe8989wed3749dd2f76c486@mail.gmail.com> 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: <201003261400.03973.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: ee4b8b3a-2122-476f-9970-adee427c02b6 X-Archives-Hash: 7b2f3e2bb73b192d5d4bbff596f1cebb Mick writes: > On 25 March 2010 11:50, Helmut Jarausch > wrote: > > Many thanks, do you have an estimate when 10.4 appears in the tree? > > Helmut. > > I can't answer that (as far as I know the devs will only say that it > will appear when it is ready) but I got myself into a pickle with > trying to switch from radeon to fglrx driver, running xorg-server > 1.7.6. I think you have to wait for ati-drivers-10.4 to work with xorg-1.7. > It kept going around in circles with blockers and after > subsequent masking and unmasking I couldn't get it to emerge, so I > went back to the radeon driver. Mind you I did not rebuilt the kernel > at the time and that may be why I was getting 'you can't have these > packages installed at the same time' type of message. With the radeon driver, I only got a blank screen, so I am using ati- drivers. From kernel 2.6.31 on, they are sort of working fine, with GLX and all that. Here is what I had to mask to keep the older x.org 1.6: >=x11-apps/xinput-1.5.0 >=x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.7 >=x11-base/xorg-server-1.7 >=x11-libs/libX11-1.3.2 >=x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.2.0 >=x11-libs/libXext-1.1.1 >=x11-libs/libXi-1.3 >=x11-libs/libXinerama-1.1 >=x11-libs/libXtst-1.1.0 >=x11-libs/libXxf86dga-1.1.1 >=x11-libs/libXxf86vm-1.1.0 >=x11-proto/bigreqsproto-1.1.0 >=x11-proto/fixesproto-4.1.1 >=x11-proto/inputproto-2.0 >=x11-proto/recordproto-1.14 >=x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.2.0 >=x11-proto/xcmiscproto-1.2.0 >=x11-proto/xextproto-7.1.1 >=x11-proto/xf86bigfontproto-1.2.0 >=x11-proto/xf86dgaproto-2.1 >=x11-proto/xf86driproto-2.1.0 >=x11-proto/xf86vidmodeproto-2.3 >=x11-proto/xineramaproto-1.2 >=media-libs/mesa-7.6 > I only wanted to try fglrx, because someone on the Ubuntu forums said > that it stopped their laptop fan from running all the time (mine > starts when the temperature reaches 50C or so and thereafter runs > continuously). That's what I heard, too. Still, I have high CPU loads for the X process when running KDE4 with my Radeon 4200 GPU. Wonko