Bug 161324 – ~x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.27.10 does not compile with kernels >=2.6.18

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ryan Hope 2007-01-10 14:38:04 UTC]

x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.27.10 does not compile with kernels >=2.6.18

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.19*
2. build kernel
3. emerge =x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.27.10*

Actual Results:  
emerge fails to build fglrx module

Expected Results:  
a built fglrx module

[Comment 1 Ryan Hope 2007-01-10 14:39:40 UTC]

Created attachment 106358 [details]
here is a modified ebuild for ati-drivers-8.27.10 that works with <2.6.20

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-01-10 14:40:05 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 148424 ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 148424 ***

[Comment 3 Ryan Hope 2007-01-10 14:40:14 UTC]

Created attachment 106360 [details, diff]
ati-drivers-2.6.19.patch (required patch 1 of 3)

[Comment 4 Ryan Hope 2007-01-10 14:42:28 UTC]

Created attachment 106362 [details, diff]
ati-drivers-2.6.19.legacy.patch (required patch 2 of 3)

this is a new patch I created, its not in portage

[Comment 5 Ryan Hope 2007-01-10 14:45:39 UTC]

Created attachment 106366 [details, diff]
ati-powermode.sh.patch (required patch 3 of 3)

this is already in portage

[Comment 6 Ryan Hope 2007-01-10 14:45:57 UTC]

Comment on attachment 106360 [details, diff]
ati-drivers-2.6.19.patch (required patch 1 of 3)

this is already in portage

[Comment 7 Ryan Hope 2007-01-10 14:47:18 UTC]

Created attachment 106368 [details]
09ati (extra required file 1 of 2)

this is already in portage

[Comment 8 Ryan Hope 2007-01-10 14:48:46 UTC]

Created attachment 106370 [details]
atieventsd.rc6 (extra required file 2 of 2)

this is already in portage

[Comment 9 Ryan Hope 2007-01-10 14:50:43 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 148424 ***
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 148424 ***
> 

these are not the same, different versions of the of the driver are still required

[Comment 10 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-01-10 14:53:03 UTC]

Shrug; noone gives a damn about the other bug and this one won't be any different.

[Comment 11 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2007-01-10 15:56:24 UTC]

Don't touch Severity flag unless you know what you are doing.

[Comment 12 Chen Xing 2007-08-07 15:25:13 UTC]

Is it possible to install ati-drivers-8.27.10 on kernel 2.6.21 now??

It's not masked, but the compilation was failed.

[Comment 13 Christian Wiegele 2007-09-14 07:41:02 UTC]

i have the same problem. i need to install 2.6.28.8.   it failss with kernels >=2.6.18

[Comment 14 Jeffrey Gardner (RETIRED) 2007-11-26 15:27:43 UTC]

8.433 is now in the tree