Iain Buchanan schreef: > Hi, > > I recently upgraded to 2.6.12, and on my recompile of all associated > parts, ati-drivers had some trouble, and bcm4400 plain didn't compile! > This process has worked almost flawlessly for me through many 2.6 > kernels. > > With 2.6.12 I managed to get ati-drivers working, but on boot, when > loading vesafb (tng) the kernel message shows the ati card string, and > then hung about 50% of the time. > > With 2.6.12.1 it hung 100% of the time at this point. <snip> > I would be interested in hearing from any one else who had success / > failure with the 2.6.12* kernel and ati drivers. >
Basically the drivers do not officially support 2.6.12, as it was not released at the time of the driver release, and ATI has a policy of only supporting stable/released kernels (not -rc kernels or the like). However, users are fighting madly to create patches, since if ATI does not provide a hotfix release or patch, we all have to wait some 6 weeks for an upgraded driver, or not upgrade our kernels until the next scheduled release (ati has a two-month release schedule, and these drivers were released on the 9th of June). You probably want to check out this thread at the Rage3d forums: No DRI with kernel 2.6.12 http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33819631 as well as ATI: 2.6.12-rc6 patch http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33819050 and from the unofficial Bugzilla [patch] kernel 2.6.12 support http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=136 I feel that there was also a thread -- somewhere -- collecting all the user-created patches to date, but I can't find it, sorry. In any case, hope this helps; I make no warranty for any of these solutions as I have not tried them myself-- I haven't even had the time to compile and upgrade gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r8 to 2.6.11-r11, much less try to get 2.6.12 working. It's looking like by the time I get around to upgrading my kernel, it will be time for a new release anyway, so I'll probably just wait to upgrade. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
