On Sonntag 07 Juni 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > 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 ati-drivers fails to emerge; foolowed the somewhat out of date doc's 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.
a) depends on your settings b) the warning seems to harmless because c) I have uptimes of days with that driver without problems.