I've been using x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.7.197 for quite some time, and never experienced a bug. This driver has been hard-masked for almost a year with this explanation: # Joshua Baergen <joshuabaergen@gentoo.org> (27 Mar 2007) # Release candidate ATI driver >=x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.6.191 This driver is used by default by many linux distributions (for example ubuntu uses it) and it adds many new features, including TV-Out support, to radeon cards. I suggest you to mark it stable, or at least move it to the unstable brach. Keeping it hard masked has no motivation. Reproducible: Always
I concur with the notion to take it out of p.mask and follow standard 30 day policy for stabilization in a month then. I have been using the 6.7 series for months now and it's been working very nicely as far as stability goes (I don't have numbers on performance and the like)
xf86-video-ati-6.8.0 is out, and the above disclaimer ("Release candidate ATI driver") is no longer valid. Please pull it out of package.mask and set a timeline to stabilize it.
(In reply to comment #2) > xf86-video-ati-6.8.0 is out, and the above disclaimer ("Release candidate ATI > driver") is no longer valid. > Please pull it out of package.mask and set a timeline to stabilize it. Did you read the changelog message?
Yes: "staying masked because EXA doesn't work for me on r2xx or r3xx" I have a r300 card, I use EXA with 6.8.0 drivers and have no problem at all. I've read the changelog but I never experienced those problems, for me this drivers are perfectly stable (as is on every distribution other than gentoo).
I unmasked it since a lot of people seem to be doing fine, and EXA isn't even the default. Stabilization will happen along with other X packages, so I'm closing this.
