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 1MQ6d5-00043d-Cv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:30:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53CC2E0802; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:30:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f207.google.com (mail-ew0-f207.google.com [209.85.219.207]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11FCEE0802 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:30:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ew0-f207.google.com with SMTP id 3so1864794ewy.34 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:30:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=oPrbjILof3bY8PXVRcmpcxvg3hvhqQbWHFe4uIl/9ME=; b=kIjV05IHmfslraj9vZNLI+KnxwYidVHG9kpWGFVTU+o0MP7I5NDiCM5Z8fidQcTihW BmSftwannjHGQQVPjX21LWBQA1u2EyrGm1+NzSWDG3Q0G+g9KzWOmrJ7reAkdscjK4St pXOK0BDGiBuAy+TCZ9qfdJnzOqEgUDnuUTFx4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=Ce58CLVRdEGiBXGWVXA3j+OG/pqZMfJhC2REvMoXHdTEENwH+hs2UrI+4XrAKW43Ux NzEhIzAwQG16lDBZabwPpCUe65pdEftv/XhR4mz9j2OdV6JgPA/gx2BQZXO6ZNZ45u0X MZaQH6Sxal4eMkhVDDEHJBk8Dv0NgnwNf9zB0= 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 Received: by 10.216.26.77 with SMTP id b55mr1209970wea.101.1247434237630; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:30:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:30:37 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] ATI 9.6 on Gentoo 2.6.30 From: Hazen Valliant-Saunders To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e65b5c709d5849046e88ea5c X-Archives-Salt: ace791de-22ac-4691-b6d9-ce41cf0b0c76 X-Archives-Hash: 1ab4448fd9bd0563d8259d46a4c67e64 --0016e65b5c709d5849046e88ea5c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit G'day folks; FYI - previous issues: Technical Caveat #1 fglrx only supports 16 / 24 bit colour depth, therefore within the Xorg Config I had to add DefaultDepth 24 the "Screen0" section & subsections. Technical Caveat#2 xf86-drivers/mouse and xf86-drivers/kyd needed to be recompiled with the emerge of ati-drivers (in fact I had to re-emerge Xorg, Xfce and all XF86 drivers, there's a note about this in the xorg emerge however as a general rule we should consider adding them as a dependancy to prevent this from confusing people.) There's a lot of chatter online about mice and keyboard's not working after an Xorg upgrade, this is why. And as always thanks again everyone; hopefully it won't freeze and I won't be bleeding too much. How long and what's required before we may consider this "Stable"? Regards, -- Hazen Valliant-Saunders IT/IS Consultant (613) 355-5977 --0016e65b5c709d5849046e88ea5c Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable G'day folks;

FYI - previous issues:
Technical Caveat #1
fg= lrx only supports 16 / 24 bit colour depth, therefore within the Xorg Confi= g I had to add DefaultDepth 24 the "Screen0" section & subsec= tions.

Technical Caveat#2
xf86-drivers/mouse and xf86-drivers/kyd needed t= o be recompiled with the emerge of ati-drivers (in fact I had to re-emerge = Xorg, Xfce and all XF86 drivers, there's a note about this in the xorg = emerge however as a general rule we should consider adding them as a depend= ancy to prevent this from confusing people.)

There's a lot of chatter online about mice and keyboard's not w= orking after an Xorg upgrade, this is why.

And as always thanks aga= in everyone; hopefully it won't freeze and I won't be bleeding too = much.

How long and what's required before we may consider this "Stab= le"?

Regards,
--
Hazen Valliant-Saunders
IT/IS Consul= tant
(613) 355-5977
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