New ati-drivers are out. This time they are for normal ati users and Radeon Xpress 200 Series users. ati-drivers-extra-8.16.20 also needs to be added (please use ati-drivers-extra-8.14.13-improvements.patch.bz2, because nothing has changed).
I forgot to say that linux 2.6.12 and gcc 4.0 are directly supported (according to the release notes).
I'd like to add that it's still dlloader incompatible... Is on route for cvs right now, thanks for the headup
I have upgraded to this new version (manualy), and some bugs I got with my X800 XT (see http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=142 http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=146 ) seems to be corrected, X start with DRI without problem (X doesn't took 100% cpu and still blanck therefore no need to use workaournd like limiting memory or starting X without DRI). So I'd like to add that a few things has changed ;) , but more is needed ...
the ebuild is currently in portage.