I was reffering to the fact that ATI has a history of support issues within Linux.
As for "Understanding" all I know is emerge ati-drivers where my keywords file contains all the nifty means to unmask the packages & dependencies I need still results in an unusable X. (which is why it's been revered back to it's previous configuration). ATI still does not support Linux properly; My pal and his Nvida card works with 2.6.29, it just means that if I want 3D on linux I'm better off with a diffrent vendor and a card that works vs a cheap vendor and a card that I have to fight with. My point is this; ATI/AMD made a commitment to make Linux work but they are behind the ball when it comes to driver updates and releases; If the kernel get's a revision it should take two weeks to see the driver no longer and no less; as a consumer It's not my job to "understand" or "care" about the details, that price that i bought that card for included the engineering required to "make it work", that's why these cards cost so much money; the hardware itself is cheap the engineering is expensive. Also as a consumer it's my job to use whichever OS I want. Hell they closed my ticket without resolving my issue. As for Gentoo, well I'll take my successes and failures where I may as I understand that it's a community of "Voulenteers" that work diligently to support a whole bunch of people that tend to complain loudly and act as though they know everything about everything. Realistically I'll just wait another two months and then mabye it will work, mabye it won't, in the meantime i'll leave the bleeding edge to those massochistic enough to enjoy it. Perhaps the Kernel Crew could hold off on releases until driver support is adaquate? The real issue there is where is the balance do you end up like Debain and only release every so many years? In the meantime I'll test it every once in a while and when it fails I'll state that it fails, when it works I'll quitely use it. As for using ATI/AMD's installer it has never worked at all; (for me anyhow) and I remember when I tried to get my 9800 working under Slackware and Redhat I had simlar stale file issues, then again that was a few years ago now, and every so often I try to get my card working in Gentoo and every so often it fails. What this has to do with Stale files and packages and placement of bad Xorg conf files means nothing to me. I just want my card and it's nifty 3D accelleration to be used by Folding at home, I can use it in windows if I ran it, I can't use it in Gentoo at the momennt, and that's the point. "Silence is golden". Regards, Hazen. On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann < volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Freitag 03 Juli 2009, Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: > > <sarchasam> > > No really the ATI installer does not work!? Go figure. > > </sarchasam> > > you really do not understand. It is not a matter of 'does it work' or not. > The > installer dumps a couple of files into the system - and on a gentoo system > in > all the wrong places. This will result in trouble later. From not compiling > packages to not working 3d acceleration because of some stale file > somewhere > hidden in the system . > > -- Hazen Valliant-Saunders IT/IS Consultant (613) 355-5977