Mark Knecht wrote:
>   I wanted to know if I leave the kernel and ati-driver package alone
> but upgrade to xorg-x11-7.0 will it work? Does xorg-x11-7+ force any
> specific kernel requirement?

With X.Org 7.0, you will need to install an ati-drivers package that
supports modular X. I did a quick grep and came up with this:

$ grep xorg-server ati-drivers-* -l
ati-drivers-8.20.8.ebuild
ati-drivers-8.21.7.ebuild
ati-drivers-8.21.7-r1.ebuild
ati-drivers-8.22.5.ebuild
ati-drivers-8.23.7.ebuild
ati-drivers-8.24.8.ebuild
ati-drivers-8.25.18.ebuild
ati-drivers-8.26.18.ebuild

If one of those is already installed, you will need to reinstall it to
get the correct, dlloader-using drivers.

There should be no kernel requirement from X.Org, any kernel requirement
will be by ati-drivers.

Thanks,
Donnie