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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H4Vbu-0001KN-JY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:02:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0A51fwS023689; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:01:41 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0A4vC5a029746 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:57:12 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8453164889 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:57:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.537 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.537 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.062, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 5ibvxFbc4p83 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:57:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A888A643E0 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:57:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H4VW6-0002H3-LT for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:56:50 +0100 Received: from grante.dsl.visi.com ([208.42.141.248]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:56:50 +0100 Received: from grante by grante.dsl.visi.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:56:50 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:56:42 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <45A45BD6.1020905@verizon.net> <45A46BEB.3030702@paradise.net.nz> X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: grante.dsl.visi.com User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Sender: news 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 X-Archives-Salt: 34d38ff3-ab73-4a35-a0e7-96971b0134ae X-Archives-Hash: 47ea2b11f2fde11829657cb7b310a928 On 2007-01-10, Mark Kirkwood wrote: >> Anyway, have had nothing but problems trying to get this thing >> working. Found many bugs listed against the ati-drivers, and >> not having much more success using the open source drivers >> also listed in the Gentoo ATI faq. The ati-drivers have always worked fine for me (until ATI discontinued support for the 92xx boards). The Xorg radeon drivers have always worked flawlessly for 2D. > Did you try the Xorg "radeon" driver? (think its part of > xf86-video-ati). The radeon driver has always worked fine for 2D. Xorg/radeon's DRI has always been a little flakey for me with a 9250. Some versions worked mostly (only a few rendering glitches), some versions seg-faulted anytime DRI was used. For me, the ati-drivers package has always proved a lot more stable for DRI. > You want to unmerge ati-drivers if they have proved unstable > (no surprise there...) > > I'm very interested as I've been using a 9550 with HW accel > enabled + Xorg (6.9) with the radeon driver in FreeBSD 6 > without any problems at all. > > This encourages me to think they should work in Gentoo as > well...(crosses fingers) as I'm in the process of building my > mother a machine running Gentoo and have one of these (a 9200) > lying around and am intending to use it.... Versions of ati-drivers newer than 8.28 won't support the 9200, and 8.28 won't build on recent kernels without patches. Most other distros have patched versions of 8.28 available for current kernels, but Gentoo doesn't. I've got a "fixed" ati-drivers-8.28 ebuild that will work with kernels up through 2.6.18. How does one make an e-build available to the world? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! .. If I had heart at failure right now, visi.com I couldn't be a more fortunate man!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list