Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-9.10 don't cooperate with xorg-server-7.1.0

[Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>]

On 28 Oct, Jesús Guerrero wrote:
> There's a thread in the forum as well. Searching for fglrx it's the first
> one right now, though it's titled towards nvidia. But just look inside.
> there are instructions on how to revert back. However, the following rule
> always holds true if you are using fglrx (and to some extent, the nvidia
> driver): before updating your system, check if there's any important update
> for X, and if so, please, always triple check in the forum and the web that
> the new X release is supported by your drivers.
> 
> At least for fglrx, this is almost never true so the regular procedure is
> to mask the packages that are about to be updated, and check again when a
> new ati-drivers revision is in place.

The 9.10 release of ati-drivers is quite recent and appered after
xorg-server-1.7.0 so I had some hope.

Helmut.

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Helmut Jarausch

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