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dolphinaura
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 Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:54 am Post subject: ATI Fglrx drivers |
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Is it safe (or possible) to install the fglrx drivers from the ati site now?
I tried it once (a few months ago), and the version from the site failed to install properly (even though it said it did  ), and only the one from portage worked.
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kernelOfTruth
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mbar
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 2:59 pm Post subject: Re: ATI Fglrx drivers |
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| dolphinaura wrote: | Is it safe (or possible) to install the fglrx drivers from the ati site now?
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Why would you even consider something like that? |
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rh1
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| If you need the newest version before it's in portage, most of the time you can just copy the current ebuild to your local overlay and update it to use the newer version. Much better than trying to install on your own. As others pointed out, that could break your system. |
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dolphinaura
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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| rh1 wrote: | | If you need the newest version before it's in portage, most of the time you can just copy the current ebuild to your local overlay and update it to use the newer version. Much better than trying to install on your own. As others pointed out, that could break your system. |
ah. thanks!
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supernovae
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| Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 2:19 am Post subject: |
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| rh1 wrote: | | If you need the newest version before it's in portage, most of the time you can just copy the current ebuild to your local overlay and update it to use the newer version. Much better than trying to install on your own. As others pointed out, that could break your system. |
This doesn't work with the latest 11.1 drivers. Breaks when trying to patch. I think its because both of the kernel patches that gentoo applies have been integrated into the driver code for this version. |
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moncojhr
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:50 am Post subject: |
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| I installed 11.1 from the ati site on my system and it just seemed to crash constantly.... |
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Tvin
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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| supernovae wrote: | | rh1 wrote: | | If you need the newest version before it's in portage, most of the time you can just copy the current ebuild to your local overlay and update it to use the newer version. Much better than trying to install on your own. As others pointed out, that could break your system. |
This doesn't work with the latest 11.1 drivers. Breaks when trying to patch. I think its because both of the kernel patches that gentoo applies have been integrated into the driver code for this version. |
I think it's better to find fresh ebuild in gentoo's bugzilla: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353107 . I've installed 11.1 and it works nice with 2.6.37 and xorg-server-1.9.4 - no problems so far. |
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supernovae
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Tvin wrote: | | supernovae wrote: | | rh1 wrote: | | If you need the newest version before it's in portage, most of the time you can just copy the current ebuild to your local overlay and update it to use the newer version. Much better than trying to install on your own. As others pointed out, that could break your system. |
This doesn't work with the latest 11.1 drivers. Breaks when trying to patch. I think its because both of the kernel patches that gentoo applies have been integrated into the driver code for this version. |
I think it's better to find fresh ebuild in gentoo's bugzilla: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353107 . I've installed 11.1 and it works nice with 2.6.37 and xorg-server-1.9.4 - no problems so far. |
Yeah i found this ebuild after i'd already removed the offending patches. I'm still not happy with the support for my 6850 though, hopefully 11.2 will provide more stable support. |
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Mark D. Craine
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I have a ATI video card (256 MB) on my motherboard built-in. Now problem is that when I install the driver for video card he show 128 MB instead of 256 MB. I want to know that where is problem in my software or hardware. When I purchase the system he tell me that the card is 256 MB.
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supernovae
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| Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 9:47 am Post subject: |
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| Mark D. Craine wrote: | | I have a ATI video card (256 MB) on my motherboard built-in. Now problem is that when I install the driver for video card he show 128 MB instead of 256 MB. I want to know that where is problem in my software or hardware. When I purchase the system he tell me that the card is 256 MB. |
If its an video controller integrated into your motherboard its likely that you can change the amount of RAM assigned to the video device in your bios. |
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Ant P.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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Installed 11.1 from ebuild, got black screen in X, nothing useful in any logs...
Oh well, the other driver's good enough. |
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supernovae
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| Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Ant_P wrote: | Installed 11.1 from ebuild, got black screen in X, nothing useful in any logs...
Oh well, the other driver's good enough. |
update your portage tree, 11.2 is now available in the official tree. |
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Ant P.
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| Typo. I'm already using 11.2. |
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