[gentoo-user] ati-drivers and 2.6.31 ?

2009-09-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch 
Hi,

is there a patch for the ati-driver together with the new 2.6.31 kernel?

Currently I get (ati-drivers-9.8)
Kernels newer then 2.6.30 are not supported by this driver

Thanks for an info,
Helmut.

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Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers and 2.6.31 ?

2009-09-10 Thread Peter Alfredsen 
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:51:01 +0200 (CEST)
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:

 Hi,
 
 is there a patch for the ati-driver together with the new 2.6.31
 kernel?
 
 Currently I get (ati-drivers-9.8)
 Kernels newer then 2.6.30 are not supported by this driver

Try ati-drivers-8.660. It's ati-drivers-9.10-alpha in disguise. Ubuntu
got ATI to give them some working drivers for Karmic. Scarabeus then put
them in the tree, but used the old versioning scheme to distinguish
them from the normal releases.

/Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers and 2.6.31 ?

2009-09-10 Thread Jesús Guerrero 
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:35:11 +0200, Peter Alfredsen
peter.alfred...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:51:01 +0200 (CEST)
 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 is there a patch for the ati-driver together with the new 2.6.31
 kernel?
 
 Currently I get (ati-drivers-9.8)
 Kernels newer then 2.6.30 are not supported by this driver
 
 Try ati-drivers-8.660. It's ati-drivers-9.10-alpha in disguise. Ubuntu
 got ATI to give them some working drivers for Karmic. Scarabeus then put
 them in the tree, but used the old versioning scheme to distinguish
 them from the normal releases.
 
 /Peter

Ugh, that's quite disturbing. All these version scheme dances are
anything but practical. If there's no new release we should be using
9.8-r1 or whatever fits, just like in any other package.

Otherwise, when .31 hits the tree we are going to need to mask
ati-drivers and unmask that concrete version.


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Jesús Guerrero