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Bug 436134 - create ebuild for legacy ati-drivers (12.4)
Summary: create ebuild for legacy ati-drivers (12.4)
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo X packagers
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Reported: 2012-09-24 20:05 UTC by Lucas Treffenstädt
Modified: 2012-09-25 20:06 UTC (History)
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Description Lucas Treffenstädt 2012-09-24 20:05:28 UTC 
Since support for a lot of radeon chipsets was dropped from > x11-drivers/ati-drivers-12.4 (See bug #419493) it would be nice to have a separate ebuild (like x11-drives/ati-legacy) for users who still use those chipsets or maybe a legacy slot in x11-drivers/ati-drivers.
This is especially needed because fixes may be necessary to make the driver work with newer kernels (See #436130)

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev 2012-09-24 20:36:59 UTC 
We have ati-drivers-12.6_beta_pre897 ("12.6 Legacy") for legacy hardware in tree and we have no plans for packaging anything older. Once it goes stable in bug 433665, version 12.4 will be dropped.
Comment 2 Szymluk 2012-09-25 18:31:32 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> We have ati-drivers-12.6_beta_pre897 ("12.6 Legacy") for legacy hardware in
> tree and we have no plans for packaging anything older. Once it goes stable
> in bug 433665, version 12.4 will be dropped.

Hi,
I have a question. Does these drivers work with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4XXX series?

Regards,
Ł. Sz.
Comment 3 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev 2012-09-25 18:42:33 UTC 
From the AMD support page it appears so:
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/catalyst126legacyproducts.aspx
Comment 4 Szymluk 2012-09-25 20:06:58 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> From the AMD support page it appears so:
> http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/catalyst126legacyproducts.aspx

Ok, thanks.