From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L4gts-0007dV-5p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:15:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F0F57E068C; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:15:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9849E068C for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:15:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CEC064399 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:15:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.453 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.453 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.146, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] 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 VKQBp18HOlbP for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:15:02 +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 C0E2C6437F for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:15:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L4gtZ-0004Fh-DV for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:14:53 +0000 Received: from athedsl-4425983.home.otenet.gr ([79.130.248.239]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:14:53 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-4425983.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:14:53 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers-8.501 does not compile with kernel gentoo-sources 2.6.26-r3 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:14:40 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <200811241728.10783.mcr76@gmx.net> <200811241759.23458.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-4425983.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080421 Thunderbird/2.0.0.14 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: b998d5af-4453-4b00-b416-d00d2ad8c489 X-Archives-Hash: b8b7bf9b5fc047f266e33f169c759ca7 Arttu V. wrote: > On 11/24/08, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> On Montag 24 November 2008, Christian wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I wanted to update my kernel to 2.6.26-r3 today. But the ati-drivers >>> version 8.501 won't compile. >> is there a good reason to use acient drivers? > > They're the latest stable on x86 -- and amd64 stable ones are even older. > > And stabilization issues are being fought over in, e.g., this bug: Use the non-stable ones. 8.552-r2. The stable ones in portage are too old.