Excerpts from Bernd Steinhauser's message of on. juni 17 20:29:16 +0200 2009: > Gaute Hope wrote: > > Excerpts from Ingmar Vanhassel's message of on. juni 17 18:27:48 +0200 2009: > >> Excerpts from Gaute Hope's message of Wed Jun 17 13:00:44 +0200 2009: > >>> Keep xorg-server 1.5 for ati's catalyst 9.3 driver, later versions > >>> don't work with cards after radeon hd 2000. > >>> > >>> - gaute > >> Ok, will do that. It would be nice if you could let me know when they've > >> fixed that. I'm not really interested in keeping track of the binary > >> blobs. :) > > > > They won't :/ - dropped support for it. Maybe open-source support gets > > good enough at some point thou. > > > > I'm not using it, it neither works on/supports kernel[>=2.6.29] so its > > getting pretty useless somewhen anyway. > Which card exactly do you have?
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M] > Maybe you should start using the open source drivers. > > Apart from that, afaik, they will support the older chips in the future, > too, but won't release drivers for them every month (maybe 2 or 3 times > / year). But will they support newer versions of Xorg/kernel ? At least they don't do that yet. > Anyway, I guess you should try the open source drivers, refer to > http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature > to see what should work with your card with either the radeon or the > radeonhd driver. I do use them, and they work well for 2D and regular stuff - but I haven't got the patience for the ati mess anymore. But I think a version that works should be in the repos, it still applies for a large amount of (potential?) users. - gaute _______________________________________________ Exherbo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev
