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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: Ati-drivers emerge fails.
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:58:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <h0gv3a$2lq$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200906071945.24668.volkerarmin@googlemail.com>

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Sonntag 07 Juni 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote:
>>> Good Day;
>>>
>>> ati-drivers fails to emerge; foolowed the somewhat out of date doc's
>>> online.
>> There doesn't exist a Catalyst for Linux release yet that support kernel
>> 2.6.29.  Even if you install the latest version (9.5), it won't work.
> 
> it works with a patch.
> 
> everything you need can be found in bugzilla.

The patch results in the driver issuing a warning about "kernel data 
malformed/corrupted" (something like that, but sounds pretty serious) at 
a rate of about a dozen per second (check with dmesg).  After a few 
hours, it locks up.  Also, the log files grow out of proportions due to 
the warning flood.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-07 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-07 16:37 [gentoo-user] Ati-drivers emerge fails Hazen Valliant-Saunders
2009-06-07 17:00 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-06-07 17:17   ` Hazen Valliant-Saunders
2009-06-07 17:22     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-06-07 17:26       ` Hazen Valliant-Saunders
2009-06-07 17:20 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-06-07 17:24   ` Hazen Valliant-Saunders
2009-06-07 17:36     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-06-07 17:35 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-06-07 17:45   ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-06-07 17:58     ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2009-06-07 18:32       ` Volker Armin Hemmann

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