[gentoo-user] No DRI for ATI 9250 and xorg 7.2?

2007-06-13 Thread Grant Edwards
Unless I'm misunderstanding something, ATI basically said screw you to anybody with a 92xx series card. ATI's drivers stopped supporting the r2xx chipsets after version 8.28.8, and that version only works up through xorg 7.1. My ATI based card is only 3 years old, and it's useless if I want to

Re: [gentoo-user] No DRI for ATI 9250 and xorg 7.2?

2007-06-13 Thread Chris Frederick
Grant Edwards wrote: I swear I'll never buy another ATI chipset again. If AMD doesn't straighten out the mess at ATI, I'll switch back to Intel CPUs as well... I usually don't offer my opinion to a rant but I just can't resist this one. I've been using an amd64 cpu on a ATI chipset for a

Re: [gentoo-user] No DRI for ATI 9250 and xorg 7.2?

2007-06-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
sorry, your email wasn't compliant, you forgot the rant and /rant. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Creativity in living is not without its attendant difficulties, for peculiarity breeds contempt. And the unfortunate thing about being ahead of your time when people finally