[gentoo-user] ATI 9.6 on Gentoo 2.6.30

[gentoo-user] ATI 9.6 on Gentoo 2.6.30

[Hazen Valliant-Saunders]

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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

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Re: [gentoo-user] ATI 9.6 on Gentoo 2.6.30

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Sonntag 12 Juli 2009, Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote:
> 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,

emm - no. you had to rebuild the mouse/keyboard driver because of the X 
update. Not because of ati-drivers.

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI 9.6 on Gentoo 2.6.30

[Hazen Valliant-Saunders]

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Yes that's correct it's an Xorg related issue;

I'm just letting everyone know that when you update your drivers; make sure
you update or xorg installation, your Xorg drivers and what not.

I also had to re-install Xfce (upgraded to 4.6) and as a result of this
upgrade I had to install the gnome and tango x icon themes, because the
launcher icons would not appear.

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <
volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Sonntag 12 Juli 2009, Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote:
> > 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,
>
> emm - no. you had to rebuild the mouse/keyboard driver because of the X
> update. Not because of ati-drivers.
>
>


-- 
Hazen Valliant-Saunders
IT/IS Consultant
(613) 355-5977

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