Re: Re: xorg-server blocked by ati-drivers

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xorg-server blocked by ati-drivers
\ James (7 May 2007)
. \ Remy Blank (7 May 2007)
. \ James (7 May 2007)
. . \ Stuart Howard (7 May 2007)
. \ James (8 May 2007)
. . \ Stuart Howard (9 May 2007)
. \ James (10 May 2007)
. . \ Iain Buchanan (10 May 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Re: xorg-server blocked by ati-drivers
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Iain Buchanan
Date:	10 May 2007

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 17:27 +0000, James wrote:
> Stuart Howard <stuart.g.howard <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> > All versions of the ATI driver are blocking xorg-server 1.3 at the
> > moment so you are not going to get around that one easily.
> > If you look at the --tree to find out what package is asking for the
> > upgrade of xorg-server and then mask that? this may help.
>
>
> Ok,

I just compiled xorg-server like this:

conf_opts="--with-release-major=7 --with-release-minor=2" emerge
xorg-server

and I use x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.36.5 from my overlay.

works fine.

see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-554798.html

HTH,
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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