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 1MQ7qr-00081M-12 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:49:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1363BE00BB; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:48:55 +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 B5E60E03BC for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:48:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy3 with SMTP id 3so1886269ewy.34 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:48:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=ruSj+/coJqe3AgN0mdjB4LpQroZE6WinikcRWvu8wQg=; b=r5rK1sfWovf04fvLHjJTlgt6X0ae4b77ngprvRP4RnA2RGMk0QGQvLnDJkaqFzco2g /qGZgWzkLLNrTcKFhSLaQ4HD3TbZH6P4nbh82UaKqvvXoDOlVvfLoYTBBGxTzPpa2dZH c1BGTCGrxyRl7nFtNoPI8e5ChWBxHlEyiOEpY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=frNGIZfoNi6dyIF8UAEUAHqX9GLLtMeq0f/oSuEfrhU7Sy90ZyaB6lPTypyOOGwtBY g7Kcp6Zos50Axnfxb1jhuxiKXIlBkQsvMwFwRdWyCcZdojrx7soEJg+IY7Yr9teKz9zd Ia3W8W/kE3wV2SqNuHkDvdTXtG6WsPg9HeOIc= 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 10.216.30.195 with SMTP id k45mr1226397wea.197.1247438934142; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:48:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200907122353.01450.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> References: <200907122353.01450.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:48:54 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [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=0016e6db2d288c6e17046e8a022c X-Archives-Salt: b1a58639-3af6-49ce-ae81-399635cc4dc7 X-Archives-Hash: 83df1b3655b0bba6f69f2cced476e330 --0016e6db2d288c6e17046e8a022c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 --0016e6db2d288c6e17046e8a022c Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 upd= ate 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 w= ould not appear.

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Volker Armi= n 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 Xor= g
> Config I had to add DefaultDepth 24 the "Screen0" section &a= mp; subsections.
>
> Technical Caveat#2
> xf86-drivers/mouse and xf86-drivers/kyd needed to be recompiled with t= he
> emerge of ati-drivers (in fact I had to re-emerge Xorg, Xfce and all X= F86
> 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 fr= om
> 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 "Sta= ble"?
>
> Regards,

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




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