From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ga95J-0007Da-Lk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:55:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9IAqiD1003227; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:52:44 GMT Received: from smtp105.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp105.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.100]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9IAodnR025463 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:50:40 GMT Received: (qmail 53237 invoked from network); 18 Oct 2006 10:50:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?70.224.231.71?) (andrew.frink@sbcglobal.net@70.224.231.71 with plain) by smtp105.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Oct 2006 10:50:39 -0000 Message-ID: <45360704.5030507@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:50:44 -0400 From: Andrew Frink User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ati-driver update References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b4c3e96d-3c6d-4007-8cf3-1e6c2eaccc49 X-Archives-Hash: 6c02a4b070f1abdbb3dd972542072b4a oskar kapala wrote: > Richard Fish wrote: >> >> xorg 7.1 or later require newer drivers. You either have to use the >> xf86-video-ati (the open source drivers included with x.org), or mask >> the new version of x.org. >> >> If you want to update to the current x.org, and abandon the >> proprietary ATI drivers, remove "fglrx" from VIDEO_CARDS in >> /etc/make.conf. >> > > Great, so I have to chose between 3d accel and updated xorg. > > Thanks anyway > oskar Oskar, Blame ATI, they have 3 options, open the driver, keep up with Xorg dev, or piss people off. It as always seemed to me that they like option 3 Cynyr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list