Bug 148407 – x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.29.6 version bump

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Marcin Kowalski 2006-09-20 11:36:53 UTC]

they work fine by bumping the ebuild. 

one thing worth mentioning. XVideo (xv) started working on my x1300pro card, even though ati says it has not been fixed yet.

[Comment 1 Christoph Mende (RETIRED) 2006-09-20 15:38:38 UTC]

another thing worth mentioning - 2.6.18 support ;)

[Comment 2 Gianluca Parmiggiani 2006-09-21 03:59:24 UTC]

This seems to be needed to compile with kernel 2.6.18
http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=63296

[Comment 3 Stephane Bonnell 2006-09-21 09:01:24 UTC]

Another things to be noted also, some of the cards have ther support removed.
    * Radeon

[Comment 4 Stephane Bonnell 2006-09-21 09:01:24 UTC]

Another things to be noted also, some of the cards have ther support removed.
    * Radeon® 8500/9000/9100/9200/9250
    * Mobility Radeon® 9000/9100/9200
    * Radeon® IGP 9000/9100/9200
driver 8.28.8 should be kept in portage as long as possible to support those cards.

[Comment 5 Natanael Copa 2006-09-21 23:53:13 UTC]

Confirming that it works on 2.6.18, amd64

[Comment 6 Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) 2006-09-22 00:42:41 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Another things to be noted also, some of the cards have ther support removed.
>     * Radeon

[Comment 7 Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) 2006-09-22 00:42:41 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Another things to be noted also, some of the cards have ther support removed.
>     * Radeon® 8500/9000/9100/9200/9250
>     * Mobility™ Radeon® 9000/9100/9200
>     * Radeon® IGP 9000/9100/9200
> driver 8.28.8 should be kept in portage as long as possible to support those
> cards.

If I am not mistaken, the open source driver support these ones... I use the open source driver with:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]

All works except of TV-out, and it is an open-source driver, which does not interfere with software suspend, suspend to ram etc...

[Comment 8 Stephane Bonnell 2006-09-22 01:20:30 UTC]

Exactly I use it for TV-out...
Or, but it is out of the scope hear, open source ebuild should include patch for TV-out see bug 127642

[Comment 9 Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) 2006-09-22 01:26:06 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Exactly I use it for TV-out...
> Or, but it is out of the scope hear, open source ebuild should include patch
> for TV-out see bug 127642

I know.
But Rune did not find how to make TV-out work for mobile cards... I tried to help him figuring this out, send him a lot of dumps, but there is something different.

So I must use the binary drivers in order to use the TV-out, or I buy a VGA to S-Video convertor...

[Comment 10 Richard 2006-09-28 03:23:06 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Another things to be noted also, some of the cards have ther support removed.
>     * Radeon

[Comment 11 Richard 2006-09-28 03:23:06 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Another things to be noted also, some of the cards have ther support removed.
>     * Radeon® 8500/9000/9100/9200/9250
>     * Mobility Radeon® 9000/9100/9200
>     * Radeon® IGP 9000/9100/9200
> driver 8.28.8 should be kept in portage as long as possible to support those
> cards.
> 

ATI site shows there is a driver for those cards : version 8.29.6 
perhaps we need a ati-drivers-legacy  ebuild ? 
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=27

Ric

[Comment 12 Stephane Bonnell 2006-09-28 05:24:40 UTC]

(In reply to comment #8)
> >     * Radeon

[Comment 13 Stephane Bonnell 2006-09-28 05:24:40 UTC]

(In reply to comment #8)
> >     * Radeon® 8500/9000/9100/9200/9250
> >     * Mobility Radeon® 9000/9100/9200
> >     * Radeon® IGP 9000/9100/9200
> 
> ATI site shows there is a driver for those cards : version 8.29.6 
> perhaps we need a ati-drivers-legacy  ebuild ? 
> 

   ATI site tells the driver to use is 8.28.8 for those cards. But I agree a legacy-ati-driver could be a good option, as long as this driver is working with current kernel and X.org version...

[Comment 14 Thomas Meyer 2006-09-28 11:29:04 UTC]

ls -l /usr/src/      

insgesamt 4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   30 17. Mai 23:17 linux -> /home/thomas/source/linux-2.6/

as you can see /usr/src/linux is a link to my local git-tree.

emerging the ati-drivers lead to this error message:
--------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY ---------------------------
LOG FILE = "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-x11-drivers_-_ati-drivers-8.29.6-9997.log"

open_wr:   /home/thomas/source/linux-2.6/astest10103.out
open_wr:   /home/thomas/source/linux-2.6/astest10107.out
open_wr:   /home/thomas/source/linux-2.6/astest10117.out
open_wr:   /home/thomas/source/linux-2.6/astest10121.out
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

any ideas?

[Comment 15 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-09-28 12:13:43 UTC]

Thomas: bug #149307

[Comment 16 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-10-05 03:09:10 UTC]

*ati-drivers-8.29.6 (25 Sep 2006)

  25 Sep 2006; Luca Barbato <[e-mail]> +ati-drivers-8.29.6.ebuild:
  New version

Closing a stale bug.

[Comment 17 Richard 2006-10-15 14:19:28 UTC]

what about that legacy driver option ? 
leaves me atm with no new driver and atm with 
the current kernel/driver versioning unable to 
switch to the 2.6.18 kernel. 

Fuzzy 

[Comment 18 Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) 2006-10-15 14:25:21 UTC]

(In reply to comment #13)
> what about that legacy driver option ? 

Have you tried the open source driver?