Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5

["Francisco Rivas" <taken2k4@gmail.com>]

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Hi, I never couldn't get 8.32.5 ati-drivers working. Now I update to kernel
2.6.20-r6 and 8.36 ati-drivers and works fine for me. I guess update
to 8.36ati-driver.

I hope be a help.

On 5/7/07, Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> wrote:
>
> On 2007-05-07, marco restelli <mrestelli@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/4/07, Remy Blank <remy.blank@pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I have noticed xorg-7.2 just went stable. I am currently using
> >> 7.1 with the stable binary ATI drivers ati-drivers-8.32.5 and
> >> the kernel gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5. Has anybody with the same
> >> configuration done the update? Does it work for you?
> >
> > Update done, no problems (up to now). I am on amd64.
>
> You're running 8.32.5 with xorg-7.2 and it works OK?
>
> I couldn't get 8.32.5 to build with 2.6.16, so I upgraded to
> 2.6.20.  8.32.5 wouldn't build with that kernel version so I
> tried the "testing" version of ati-drivers.  The "testing"
> ati-drivers are badly broken: scrolling aterm windows get
> corrupted, some apps don't get repainted correctly, and the X
> server locks up hard when you try to do anything using the Xv
> extension.
>
> I guess I'll try downgrading my kernel until I can get 8.32.5
> to build.
>
> ATI's Linux drivers sure do suck...
>
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