Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> On 06/25/2009 04:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>
>>> I thought emerge xf86-video-ati, then swapping Driver "flgrx" to Driver
>>> "radeon" in xorg.conf was all that is required??
>>
>> No, I need a new kernel also. The kernel on this machine is 2 years
>> old. Also, I have about a dozen packages masked so I've unmasked those
>> and will need to get the whole machine up to date.
>>
>> None the less I'm happy to do it if there's any chance it will work.
>
> If it works, better make sure you keep the system up to date.  Gentoo will
> bark and bite you at some point if you don't; I'm sure you figured that out
> by now :P
>

Except for being forced into all these old kernel and video packages
the machine has been kept up to date. Now it will be completely up to
date. :-)

The new kernel booted the first time and except for me forgetting to
enable the correct NIC things looked good. I added the 3c590 and now
can get to it over ssh. emerge -DuN @world will take a few hours as
there are a number of packages to update.

Tomorrow I will delve into the newer Open Source ATI driver and see
how things go. Wish me luck.

cheers,
Mark